LOOP Talks 2017: Muntadas in conversation with Niels Van Tomme

As an in-depth contribution to the “contemporary archaeology of video” prompted by the Festival, this year’s edition of the Talks provided a current reading of early video art. Eminent pioneering artists conversed with curators of peer and younger generations, so to establish formal and conceptual connections between the past and present and explore the influence of avant-garde artistic proposals on contemporary production. 

In this conversation, artist Muntadas and curator Niels Van Tomme (Director, De Appel, Amsterdam) discussed about Muntadas’ work departing from one of his latest projects About Academia (2011-2017) until reaching video’s very early days. However, Muntadas stressed how is work is not about a medium in itself yet about a process that usually implies anthropology, politics and sociology as well.