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CONVERSATION NORD-SUD, DANEY / SANBAR
Simone BittonThe influential French movie critic Serge Daney in a dialogue with Palestinian historian Elias Sanbar, who attempts to archive the photographic memory records of his people. The recording was made in Paris on July 4th, 1991, shortly after the end of the Gulf War. A meeting between 2 cultures and 2 different visual approaches, a parabola of North/South-relations....
L'esprit belge, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
L'ESPRIT BELGE
Angel VergaraIn ’L’esprit belge’, politicians, journalists and artists make an appearance. In a montage of historical images, including a number of drawings and paintings, Angel Vergara sketches a subjective historical frame in which Belgium is being discussed...
THE BOAT
Messieurs DelmotteA scene at night. All dressed in black, Messieurs Delmotte is sitting in a red inflatable boat, slowly floating on what seems to be a calm lake. Suddenly, he jumps up and cuts the boat with two knifes. But the tiny vessel does not sink at al… This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...
LA COULEUR DE LA BRIQUE
Bie MichelsThe 485 km long Ikopa river passes through Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. In the middle of the wide river there is what looks like a miniature town, right in the middle of the metropolis. Here, on a manufacturing site called La Digue, the inhabitants use the river mud to make bricks. Elsewhere in the city and in the countryside there are similar sites...
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 5. WANNEER DE MEESTER ZEGT WAT KUNST IS
Jef CornelisPart of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When the master says what art is’ shows images of a drawing-lesson in a secondary school, where ‘creativity’ and ‘talent’ are measured and adjusted making use of social norms and subjective values...
(DIS)LOCATION
Meggy Rustamova'(dis)Location' is a many layered film making use of photography and voice over to reveal a narrative beyond the personal and the universal. The video '(dis)Location' focuses on the dynamic between audience and author, language, interpretation, the duality between reality and fiction, storytelling and visual narration...
JAMES LEE BYARS: WORLD QUESTION CENTER
Jef CornelisThe work of the American artist James Lee Byars (1932-1997) resists any strict definition or categorisation. He was greatly influenced by his many travels, as well as by for example Zen philosophy and Noh theatre, which he discovered during the years he spent in Japan. While his oeuvre relates to conceptual, minimal and performance art, it is not limited to any of these genres...
Battle of the Trees, Peter Finnemore, 2006. Courtesy the Artist
BATTLE OF THE TREES
Peter FinnemoreA static camera films a portion of a lined with trees landscape. Suddenly a man in a camouflage battle dress, namely the artist, zigzags with two shrubs on his hands. He shakes them and dances following the rhythm of a 60ies song....
LITTLE FIGURES
Sarah Vanagt"Three statues on the Mont des Arts in Brussels: a king, a queen and a medieval knight. Three newcomers to Brussels: a Philippino boy, a Rwandan refugee girl and a Moroccan boy. Three statues, three children; an imaginary conversation. " (https://www.balthasar.be) In ’Little Figures’ Sarah Vanagt once again plays with her passion for history, perspective and social commitment...
O (ZERO)
Emilio López-MencheroPart of the Mirror Mode series, O (zero) is a short video by Emilio López-Menchero. The fix camera films the artist’s body and more precisely his abdomen. While establishing a relation with the reversed screen display of the camera, the artist try to move his body in order to delimit the frame of the camera with his belly button....
