The clandestine in the work of Jef Cornelis

This book comprises two essays about hidden messages in the television films Daniel Buren (Wide White Space Gallery,1971), Sonsbeek beyond lawn and order (1971) and Landscape of Churches (1989). Koen Brams considers Cornelis explicit strategies to bring to light differences of opinion in the art world in 1971. He further shows that Cornelis avails himself of less explicit methods of operation to carry his point. Dirk Pültau analyses the covert elements of the soundtrack of the film Landscape of Churches. What at first hearing seems a classical sound recording turns out, on further consideration, to contain a demonic message. The book is accompanied by a DVD that holds three original films with English subtitles.