Argos presents a series of performances and choreographies on video and film that explore notions of movement, space and time within the urban make shift environment of New York City during the early 1970s. The protagonists of these works – from the dancer to the performer, from the camera to the city, from the passerby to the sparse audience – physically appropriate the public terrain of their daily surroundings through their presence as well as actions.

The American group The Yes Men puts the big shots of this world to shame (the World Trade Organisation, McDonald’s, Dow Chemical, etc.). They create fake websites, publish fake newspapers, speak at conferences, make guest appearances on TV shows and so on. We present their editions of the New York Post and the New York Times and the video The Yes Men Fix The World.

Not Waving, But Drowning materialises the experience of Indian refugees during their arrest and detention by the harbour police in Zeebruges, Belgium. Within the tense, haunted context of the harbour and the seaside, and together with them, we slowly lose all sense of time and place. Without investigating their past or their future, the human traffic organisations or the Belgian legislation, the film transgresses into the timelessness in which our society imprisons people without papers.