VVORK

»Belgian Flag«, 2006 by Justin Morin.

»Greatest Hits in Spanglish« by Pascual Sisto.

»Turing Train Terminal«, 2004 by Severin Hofmann and David Moises.

“This Is Not A Loop” by Niall Flaherty. Sound loop digitally generated from Rene Magritte’s painting “The Betrayal of Images“, 1929.

»DC Webcam«, 2006 by Mark Skwarek.

»Translation Piece« (2002) by Jonathan Monk consists of a documented series of successive translations of a description of Robert Barry’s immaterial Telepathic Piece (1969). What begins with Barry’s statement ‘During the exhibition I will try to communicate telepathically a work of art, the nature of which is a series of thoughts that are not applicable to language or image’ becomes, after passing through a number of commercial agencies, gibberish: ‘in this image the way of expression of reactions of the soul attempts to come close to a work of art’.

»The Jungle Book Project«, 2002, is a multilingual re-composition that plays on the universality of Walt Disney in 1967. Pierre Bismuth created a new soundtrack, based on 18 translations chosen by each character in function of the resonance of each language.

»The Allens«, 2004. A sound and video installation where a computer program continuosly changes between the different vocal incarnations of Woody Allen. By Erik Bünger.

»Synchronisation Dubbing«, 1998. The ever same scene of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver translated to seven languages. By Harun Farocki.

»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.

In “The John Cage Autograph” RGB values of the image are converted to chromatic scale piano sounds. By Steffen Kasperavicius.

»Songs Translated To Buildings« (2008) by Oliver Laric.

“Alpha, Beta, Gamma” by Joe Gilmore. The installation converts data from 2 Geiger Counters into sound.

»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.

“Earth–Moon–Earth” by Katie Paterson. For “Earth–Moon–Earth, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata has been translated into morse-code and sent to the moon via E.M.E. Returning to earth‘fragmented’ by the moon’s surface, it has been re-translated into a new score, the gaps and absences becoming intervals and rests. Video.

»After action for another library«, 1999-2003, by Tom Nicholson.

»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.

»Yes« and »No« by Claude Closky.

»Html Malevitsch«, 1996 by Codemanipulator.

“Phono/Graph” by Ed Davenport.