video art
Jef Cornelis
Jef Cornelis is one of the pioneers of research into the language of television and its relationship to video art, documentary and the reading of history from the present, and also of the analysis of what it means to make a film. In the course of more than 25 years work at VRT, the Belgian public television corporation, Jef Cornelis directed a great deal of filmic material. His work has come to be seen as a milestone and a visual content bank of great importance to the the history of contemporary art. In FONS AUDIO #4, Cornelis contextualises some of his works in the MACBA Collection.
Javier Codesal
Javier Codesal talks about the video art boom in the eighties in Spain, the boundaries between documentary and fiction, and the places and narratives of contemporary art.
Quinsy Gario
Quinsy Gario talks about the role of the activism in the Netherlands today, and about the relation between its performative nature and the boundaries of the museum.
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler analyses and questions the proliferation of surveillance systems and self-representations in contemporary society, while telling us about artistic circles in the seventies, the seminal video art scene, and the need to keep chasing utopias.
María Ruido
María Ruido talks about the political power of images and the subversive potential of cinematic strategies such as off-screen, voice over, and editing, which help us understand and imagine the world in new ways. She also reflects on the always contradictory relations between the critical and experimental power of culture on one hand, and its institutionalisation on the other