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»I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor—that’s not my business—I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We all want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls—has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in: machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little: More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say “Do not despair.” The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people will return to the people, and so long as men die [now] liberty will never perish.… Soldiers—don’t give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you—who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you as cattle, as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don’t hate—only the unloved hate. Only the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers—don’t fight for slavery, fight for liberty. In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written “the kingdom of God is within man”—not one man, nor a group of men—but in all men—in you, the people. You the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let’s use that power—let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age and security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill their promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers—in the name of democracy, let us all unite! Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting—the sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality. The soul of man has been given wings—and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow—into the light of hope—into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up. Look up.«, 2005-2006. Charlie Chaplin’s speech from “The Great Dictator”, transposed into sign language, by Jordan Wolfson.

“Video Nasties”, 2003 by Jodie Carey. A collection of approximately 100 Horror videos.

“9 Ways To Say It’s Over”, 2006 by Alexander Gutke.

»Disney Couture«, 2007-1937, and

»Paramountains«, 2008 by Kari Altmann.

»Filmspace«, 2006-2007, is a series of stills from movies placed and montaged together to produce a new space. By Dennis Neuschaefer-Rube.

»Seduction of the Stone« (2008). Foreign subtitles extracted from »Romancing the Stone (1984, Starring Kathleen Turner
and Michael Douglas)« and translated into english using Google Translate. By Charles Broskoski.

»Bitches Brew«, 2006, 13 minute video sampled from mostly male directed movies from the 60ies to today, the video shows women who take back control and power, fight off their attackers or take revenge on their assailants. By Heidrun Holzfeind.

»Anhedonia«, 2007, 90 min. In psychology, anhedonia is an inability to experience pleasure from normally pleasurable life events such as eating, exercise, and social or sexual interaction. It was also supposed to be the original title of Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall, but it was considered unmarketable. By Aleksandra Domanovic.

»Attributing Value (Refractions)« by Damon Zucconi.

»Neon from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen installed at Galerie West« by Arin Rungjang.

»two hundred fifty googled images« by Katerina Matsoukis is a printed email showing two hundred fifty image search results for the words two, hundred, fifty, googled and images.

»Canon Remix« by Haroon Mirza.

»Logo Hallucination« by Christophe Bruno.

»four weddings and a funeral« by John Michael Boling.

»Dialectics of Subjection #4« by Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkacova.

»POST-POST-PRODUCTION« by Julien Prèvieux.

»BUBBLECARS« by Collectif-Fact.

»Canon« by Bad Beuys Entertainment.

Documentation of »Bad Beuys Entertainment, Boling, Bruno, Chisa & Tkacova, collectif_fact, Matsoukis, Mirza, Prévieux, Rungjang, Zucconi« curated by VVORK for Galerie West, Den Haag, 6.10.-3.11. 2007.

»Following the Right Hand of Janet Leigh in “Touch of Evil”«, 2006. For the duration of the film, Pierre Bismuth placed a pen, so to speak, in Janet Leigh’s right hand so that through her movements the actress produced a drawing on the screen.

Origami »Tortue«, 2003. A ready-made origami is unfolded and doesn’t reveal any trace of its creation; every object keeps nevertheless name of the thing that the corresponding origami is supposed to represent. By Pierre Bismuth.

The film »Wandering through the Future« (2007) consists of fragments of 70 film productions from all over the world. Passing all sorts of apocalyptic landscapes and scenarios, the one-hour video leads you through the future from 2008 until 802.701 A.D. in order of appearance. The film tries to examine the way the Future has been given shape and how the different scenarios relate to eachother. Worst-case scenarios with for instance natural disasters, utopian and dystopian cities, virusses, clones and habitats on other planets give insights in the fear for one of our main exploration still to come. By Marjolijn Dijkman. View Timeline.

»Remake of The Deer Hunter« (2005) by Ronny Hanson, Jonas Kjellgren and Stig Sjölund.

“Simulating Gravity” by Jesper Carlsen. Reanimated scene from the film “Space Odyssey 2001″. Video.

Darth Vader tries to clean the Black Sea with Brita Filter.

»Learn How to Fly over a Very Large Larry«. Daniel Bozhkov created a 300-by-250-foot likeness of Larry King using a 3-by-6-foot piece of quarter-inch plywood to flatten the mixture of timothy and milkweed growing in an isolated field in central Maine.

Yogurt reinforced with human DNA. All three projects by Daniel Bozhkov.