Translations:Creatie van een videokunstwerk met het archief van de Beursschouwburg/10/en

Using videos stored by ARGOS

ARGOS was founded after De Nieuwe Workshop was disbanded in 1985, and it focused on distributing video art. The videos from the Videotheek therefore became part of the ARGOS collection. Beursschouwburg also transferred its video archive to ARGOS in December 2000 - January 2001. Frank Vranckx was one of the sources of inspiration behind De Nieuwe Workshop and a driving force for video art in Belgium. He was a director at the Audiovisual Department at KUL and made videos with various performers. He also started the Beursschouwburg Videotheek, where he took care of the programming for video and visual arts. Visitors were also able to watch video art in the Videotheek, and Beursschouwburg had agreements in place with major distributors such as Montevideo and Electronic Arts Intermix for this. Some of the tapes were not returned to the distributors afterwards and remained at Beursschouwburg.