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INSTRUMENT VOOR ÉÉN LIED
George SmitsIn the course of his life George Smits made all sorts of experimental musical instruments, often from metal, polystyrene and bamboo. Smits’ constructions frequently transcended the status of instrument: on many occasions they almost filled the entire space (of the gallery) and thus they were more like a sculpture...
BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, ENGLISH VERSION]
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
Everybody, 2009, Steve Reinke and Jessie Mott © the artists
EVERYBODY
Steve Reinke - Jessie MottSteve Reinke never shrinks from exploring fears and desires, and ’Everybody’ is no exception. The video is disconcertingly simple, consisting of a number of crudely drawn animals, roughly and luridly coloured. As these animals move their mouths, voice-overs speak of bodily fluids, pain and disgust in a matter-of-fact manner, the strange made ordinary by the vocal performances...
WAVE TRAIN (MUSIC FROM 1959 TO 1968)
David BehrmanDavid Behrman – Wave Train (Music From 1959 To 1968) Label: Alga Marghen – 5NMN.020 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Italy Released: 2002 Genre: Classical, Electronic Style: Modern Classical, Minimal, Experimental (source: https://www.discogs.com)...
WER IMMER HOFFT STIRBT SINGEND
Alexander KlugeHope forms part of the genetic makeup of humanity. Hope is also part of evolution: it is part of the essence that bolsters the growth, progression, and development of plants, animals, and minerals. Scientists describe this process as ‘primeval trust’...
TRACE
Peter DownsbroughTRACE revisits the site of an earlier Downsbrough video, A] PART (2009). The location for both works, Brussels’s iconic Citroen garage, opened to great fanfare in 1934 as the largest automobile service center in Europe...
April 2nd, 1994, Shelly Silver © the artist
APRIL 2ND
Shelly Silver"In April 2nd, Silver follows a series of men around the Marais district of Paris. From a suspicious policeman to a well dressed man who quickly disappears into a department store, to a guy in jeans who desperately runs into the street to get away from her, the tape begins with a series of short and apparently failed relationships...
Philippe Bertels, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PHILIPPE BERTELS
Angel VergaraThe author Philippe Bertels draws a distinction between the ’self-made men’ and the ’not self-made men’. Artists are part of the latter. While he is trying to answer, he becomes embroiled in an argument with his companions in a night garden, and asks Michel François for assistance, eventually entering into a discussion with him as well....
RIJKSWEG N1
Jef CornelisRijksweg 1 (State Highway 1) links up Antwerp to Brussels over Mechelen (Malines). Before the motorway came, there was some really heavy traffic. Now the highway is abandoned. Jef Cornelis picks out a straight piece, between Kontich and Walem. “A highway which lost its way. A road of today. A road acting as a location. It makes out the landscape, its own landscape all by itself...
MY HEART OF MY COMING INTO BEING
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenA figure is sitting down and staring at the sun, while its thoughts mingle with the horizon. The figure simplifies itself to abstract shapes, colors, then nothing. After which the person exists again as an idea to live forever...
