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JUMPY CHICKEN
Messieurs DelmotteThis time the title is particularly ironic as the chicken is not actually jumping. Two strings are attached to its legs, which are used to pull the chicken away. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
ENTRE NOUS QUELQUE CHOSE SE PASSE...
Ria PacquéeIn the work of Ria Pacquée the relative and the existential converge. She records her presence and that of others in this world, using photography and recently video, like traces of social archaeology. Pacquée begins with the premise that life doesn’t necessarily revolve around knowing and grasping, but that everything starts with breathing and a longing for otherness...
EVIDENCE
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeEvidence is a split screen film that combines disparate footage used in previous works. The film spans almost twenty years of artistic collaboration and it includes sequences from Us/Them (2001), The Bishop & The Doctor (2002), Propeller (2004), Winter Prayers (2006), The Gift (2007), The Scrap Iron Age (2008), Pressure (2009), War is Over (2011) and other films...
DE ZWANEN VAN ROGER RAVEEL [TRIËNNALE BRUGGE]
Jef CornelisRaveel’s four swans were made for the Second Bruges Triennial 1971. We see Raveel and his assistants trying for the third time to put the swans into the waters of the Reien. Original broadcast date: 19/08/1971 Content: 00’00" Calendar. 00’30" View of a council workman pushing a cart containing Roger Raveel’s four swans made for the Second Bruges Arts Triennial...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 55. SYMPOSIUM
Steve ReinkeI dreamt that the University of Minnesota held a symposium of serial killers and Joseph Beuys gave the keynote address....
ER LIGT EEN VIDEO IN DE SOEP
Stefaan DecostereAn overview of the history of video art till 1983. Unconventional in style and international in scope, the work presents an overview of artists and independents working in television. Excerpts of tapes, installations and interviews are introduced through playful use of sophisticated graphics...
TENANT
Grace SchwindtIn Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...
THE NIGHT BEFORE
Charley CaseThis video is inspired by haptonomy, an affective, physical form of prenatal communication with the foetus. When a hand is placed on an expectant mother’s belly, her unborn baby responds by moving close to it and, if the hand moves, by following its position. In the video this interaction is simulated by the projection of a film on a pregnant belly...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): TAPISSERIE
Jacques LennepThe camera shows a fixed shot of a banal wallpaper with a flower-print. Offscreen somebody shouts 'Vive la peinture!'....
