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Something about today, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2008 © the artist & producer
SOMETHING ABOUT TODAY
Mekhitar GarabedianAgainst a background of orchestral music by Sibelius, photographic images are presented with the colour drained. At first the screen seems to be one solid block of cream, but slowly some colour is faded in, providing outlines of shapes. As the viewer ascertains the outline of buildings, words are imposed over the image - a contents page is slowly provided...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 85. NEW YORK LOVES ME
Steve ReinkeEveryone loves Steve in New York. Or at least, that’s what they say....
SUICIDE
Shelly Silver"suicide is a feature-length fiction of a woman’s voyage through the malls, airports and train stations of Asia, Europe and Central America, chronicling her fiercely hopeful and desperate search for a reason to continue living...
OUTPLACEMENT 01 (PORTRET)
Cel CrabeelsCel Crabeels explicitly tackles the issues of the area surrounding the St. Jan’s square. He visits the itinerary between the Fabiola Hall and the Sint Jan’s square almost on a daily basis, making contact with the people he meets on his way. He invites them to make a video portrait in the underground parking garage where he has built a studio for the occasion...
INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL
Steve Reinke‘Incidents of travel’ is an adventure story in which each exciting incident or episode is relayed as a title. The title is taken from John Stephen’s 1853 novel ‘Incidents of travel in Yucatan’. The soundtrack, which proceeds very slowly, is a stretched version of ’Popcorn’ by Hot Butter. This is also, perhaps, a homage to (or parody on) structuralist film....
SHEIK ATTACK
Eddo SternIn this video Eddo Stern combines Israeli pop songs from the late sixties -optimistic, nation-building songs- with violent, militaristic scenes from computer/video games, resulting in a vertiginous, thought-provoking spectacle...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): L'AILE EN CAGE
Jacques LennepWe see the artist sitting in a garden watching a birdcage. Inside there is no bird however, but only a wing of a black bird. With this registration the artist brings homage to the surrealist painter René Magritte....
THE MAGGOTS
Messieurs DelmottePinned on a soundtrack of heavy metal jazz, Messieurs Delmotte is lying on a blue mattress. Out of his mouth are hundreds of little white maggots. A horror scene in overdrive or a fantasy? Part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....
De Kus #3 (Kristalkus), Frank Theys, 1997. Courtesy the Artist
DE KUS #3 (KRISTALKUS)
Frank TheysThe third instalment of Frank Theys’ series 'The Kiss'. In this silent short film that is part of an installation to be played in a loop, we see a couple intensively French kissing. Using the medium of the MRI scan, the computer translates this image into a 3D-object, spinning around itself endlessly....
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNST LICHTJES BEDWELMT
Jef CornelisPart of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, in this case : ’When art slightly intoxicates’. Museums are used as cultural oases in urban surroundings, where artworks are the object of selfless admiration...
