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THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US
Jan Locus'The Distance Between Us' takes its starting point in some audio cassettes artist and photographer Jan Locus received from a Moroccan family in Molenbeek a few years ago. Probably going back to the early 1980s, the cassettes contain an oral correspondence between families in Brussels and Morocco. These anonymous audio letters bear witness to the pain of those who stayed at home...
3 SHORT STORIES
Michel Lorand3 Short Stories includes a video installation, Medea, centrally placed in the exhibition space, and three short video films, Cut, Camera Obscura and Epilogue, shown successively and continually in the projection room. Although the title may suggest otherwise, Michel Lorand is presenting four, not three, autonomous works...
THÉRÉSA PLANE
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst'Thérésa Plane’ is an itinerary in the form of an infinity symbol shaped loop. At its point of intersection a frog who thinks that everything is pretty and Thérésa whose principle activity is to glide, meet. A love story between the frog and Thérésa ensues. All would have gone quite well, were it not for the intervention of destiny...
UNE BROSSE, UNE RAMASSETTE ET LA MÉLANCOLIE
Jacques LennepThis video is based on Dürer’s Melancholia. According to Lennep, the angel suffers from melancholia because she misses a few things. The artist therefore embarks on a quest for that which the angel needs. In the end he finds her a dustpan and brush....
HF REMIX 1
Pascal BaesHF Remix 1 is a mathematical rearrangement of fragments of old 16mm films through the systematic adaptation of the ’Height Field’ effect on images. The film ’Rainbow market’ shows a series of performances carried out at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Saint-Gilles flower market in Brussels...
DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 1
Jacques LennepThe artist speaks in front of a steady camera about his passion for art and specifically the medium of video. In his speech, references to the history of contemporary art pass by. In a second scene, he goes to the market of Charleroi buying a living rabbit that he will prepare at home for a meal...
REVOLVER
Jacques Louis NystAs in 'La mort d’une poule’, sound plays a key role in 'Revolver’. A real hand confronts a sculpted one. It imitates its gesture, proposes new ones. Then what we have interpreted so far as a human hand suddenly turns into a revolver....
Ringleaders, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
RINGLEADERS
Peter FinnemoreFinnemore's crew of kids and other family members have fun by doing ring a Ring-o'Roses....
NEITHER “IN” NEITHER “OFF” (IN BETWEEN VENICE AND BIENNALE)
Messieurs DelmotteIn the summer of 2013, Messieurs Delmotte developed a series of performances in Venice while the Biennial was taking place. In different parts in the city of doges, he poses or interacts with his direct environment...
AS LONG AS I SEE BIRDS FLYING I KNOW I AM ALIVE
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée is a keen observer of public life. In “As long as I see birds flying I know I am alive” she collects recordings made in Paris, Kathmandu, Athens, Istanbul, Bruges, New York, Varanasi and Antwerp...
