WIELS is visiting you at home with exclusive content and some tips to bring art from the world directly to you.
This week for our curated film programme, we present two video works by former artists in residence who both take as their point of departure the work of another artist: In The Man Who from 2019 Yuki Okumura interviews several individuals about their memories of an unnamed conceptual artist, while in Rolling a Joint from 2015 Simnikiwe Buhlungu dissects, annotates, and performs a reading of Spike Lee’s screenplays.
Enjoy!
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VIDEO
YUKI OKUMURA, THE MAN WHO, 2019
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Composed of a series of interviews conducted by the Japanese artist Yuki Okumura in Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Ostend and Paris from late 2018 to early 2019, this film contains memories, or description of memories, of an unnamed man – seemingly a legendary Conceptual artist – narrated by the nine participating [removed];
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| SIMNIKIWE BUHLUNGU, ROLLING A JOINT, 2015 |
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In Rolling a Joint, South African artist Simnikiwe Buhlungu dissects, annotates, and performs a reading of Spike Lee’s screenplays, such as Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing. As an ultimate tribute, Buhlungu rolls its pages into a joint ready to be smoked, for Lee’s words to be inhaled.
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EXTRACT FROM
THE BOOK TODAY IS THE FIRST DAY
Read the essay The Trans Revolution of Images in which WIELS curator Devrim Bayar analyses several recent series of works and exhibition installations by Wolfgang Tillmans that accentuate change, uncertainty and the multi-dimensionality of [removed];
If you want to read more, the book Today is the First Day can be ordered via our website.
Published by Koenig Books, together with IMMA, Dublin.
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Yuki Okumura organized a great workshop in WIELS: Anatomy Fiction and now you can also participate at home. The point is not to make an accurate portrait, but to express what you feel. Share your result with #WIELSfromHome and #AnatomyFiction.
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An Optical Poem by Oskar Fischinger expresses music through images. Have you ever drawn music? This artist’s experiments have inspired famous people such as Walt Disney. Watch the movie first, then take a sheet of paper and colored pencils, put on your favorite music and draw what comes to mind.
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Discover this visual do-it-yourself toy catalogue, a selection from the ‘Creative Resource Library’ of the ABC house in Brussels.
Most of the ideas in this brochure can be realized with cheap, everyday recycled materials. Now it’s your turn to play!
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