argosfestival catalogues (2001 - 2005)
argosfestival catalogues 2001 - 2005
With reflective essays, analytic texts and descriptions of recent audiovisual works, the argosfestival catalogues brought an in depth overview of the curated programmes, work surveys, performances, exhibitions and discussions that took place at the argosfestival from 2001 to 2005. More than merely an anthology of the different components of the festival, the catalogue formed an implicit reflection on the position of contemporary audiovisual arts in relation to complex evolutions of an economical, social, cultural and political nature.
To the organisation and the team, the publication and distribution of a sturdy festival catalogue was a constant factor, because it turned a short moment of display into an event with a lasting impact. The reference work supported artists, distributed their work and accommodated critical reflection. It held space for interpretation and biographies on the presented works and the participating artists, as well as background essays.
authors: Paul Willemsen & Frie Depraetere
publisher: argos editions (Brussels)
price: €15 (per catalogue)
argosfestival 2001
The first edition includes essays by A.R. Nort (on Istvan Kantor), Jayce Salloum (on new Arab film and video), Jacques Houis (on Ken Kobland), Jen Weih & Emily Vey Duke (on recent Canadian video), Edwin Carels & Jan Vromman (on Belgian audiovisual artistic production) , Dirk van den Borght (on Taxi Val Mentek), Robin Rimbaud (on Scanner’s performance 52 Spaces), Lisa DiLillo (on the Wishart/DiLillo performance Escape) and Ive Stevenheydens (on imagemusic). The second part of the catalogue gives an outline of the full selection of Belgian audiovisual productions made in 2000 and 2001.
book: 17 x 23 cm, 414 pages, English / Dutch / French
ISBN: 9076855099
argosfestival 2002
This edition includes essays by Laura U. Marks (on immigrant and intercultural autobiographies), Dirk Lauwaert (on film letters), Brent Klinkum (on artistic duos), Wolfgang Brauneis, Ive Stevenheydens and Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen (on turntablism), Wouter Koelman (on Eija-Liisa Ahtila), Lisa Gabrielle Mark (on Steve Reinke), Ivanmaria Vele (on Christian Jankowski), Edwin Carels (on Uri Tzaig), Annik Leroy (on Antonin De Bemels), Dirk De Wit (on process as film practice) and Robert Stéphane (on the RTBF-program Vidéographie that showed on television from 1976 to 1986). A last section gives an outline of the full selection of Belgian audiovisual productions made in 2001 and 2002.
book: 16 x 24 cm, 530 pages, English / Dutch
ISBN : 9076855137
argosfestival 2003
In the essay Nations, Pollinations and Dislocations: Changing Imaginary Borders in the Americas, Elena Feder analyses the mental and physical concept of borderlines, running through more than fifty years of audiovisual footage made on the American continents. Politics of Noise with essays by Ive Stevenheydens and Paul Hegarty examines the friction between clamour, ‘noise’ and music, focussing on meaning and the ‘political’ strategies or issues that might arise from it. Nat Muller's text Coded Interference illustrates and questions new modes of producing and reading artworks zooming in on the moment when the ‘code’ or the system is inhibited by (external) circumstances.
Flashing into the Shadows: the artist’s film in America 1966-76, an essay by Chrissie Iles and Eric de Bruyn, outlines with the likes of Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Hollis Frampton, Mel Bochner, Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Bruce Nauman and Vito Acconci, the hey-day of the artist’s cinema in the United States between 1966 and 1976.
In an additional essay entitled Shadow of the Spectacle, de Bruyn examines how post-minimal film redefined the relationship between the function of exhibition and its interaction with the public. Essays by Christa Blümlinger (on Harun Farocki), Yaël André (Claudio Pazienza), Jean-Michel Botquin (Franciska Lambrechts & Honoré d’O), Astrid Mania (Joëlle de la Casinière) and Jean-Christophe Royoux (separate essays on Pierre Huyghe as well as on Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij) summarise the works and the strategies of both important international and Belgian contemporary audiovisual artists. A last section gives an outline of the full selection of Belgian audiovisual productions made in 2002 and 2003.
book: 16 x 24 cm, 506 pages, English / Dutch
ISBN: 9076855161
argosfestival 2004
Three essays centre on the unexpected, extremely fast and almost irrational urbanisation, proper to the development of the modern metropolis. A curatorial statement on Hou Hanru’s exhibition project Excessive, dense, speedy, complex, empty… but humane discusses this notion of post-planning and relates it to digital video. In complementary essays Ou Ning (Digital Images and Civic Consciousness) and Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix (Breeding Dust. From Data to Dada) focus on other aspects of intense processes of urbanisation. Approached from a very different angle, the city - more specifically Brussels - also has a prominent place in three other essays. Sven Sterkens’ Brussels, City in Plural collects some thoughts concerning the image of the Belgian capital and discusses artist strategies to come to a dissident reading of the city. On the occasion of the multidisciplinary project This Place is Dreaming - Rethinking and Transfiguring the Sites and Sounds of Brussels that took place in different places downtown, curator Ive Stevenheydens and author/artist Brandon Labelle discuss the relation between field recording and urban space. One curatorial program is more medium specific. In her essay Document(all). A nonconformist way to tell stories Berta Sichel sets off from a fundamental change in the approach of the (artistic) documentary in Western Europe over the past decades. Essays by Michel Assenmaker (on Michel François), Jacinto Lageira (on Roman Signer), Mark McElhatten (on Ken Jacobs) summarise the works and the strategies in the audiovisual work of important contemporary artists. A last section gives an outline of the full selection of Belgian audiovisual productions made in 2003 and 2004.
book: 16 x 24 cm, 492 pages, English / Dutch
ISBN: 90-76855-20-X / 978-9076855202
argosfestival 2005
This edition contains interviews and essays by Jean-Christophe Royoux, Tanya Leighton, Serge Daney, Paul Willemsen, Caoimhin Macgiollaleith, Ive Stevenheydens, Gary Mairs, Jacob Lillemose & Inke Arns, Michael Newman, and Herman Asselberghs. A second section gives an outline of the full selection of Belgian audiovisual productions made in 2004 and 2005.
book: 16 x 24 cm, 504 pages, English / Dutch
ISBN: 9076855218