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SUSPENSION
Nicolas ProvostIn soundless Suspension, mirrored images develop before one’s eyes like animated black-and-white Rorschach inkblots. White mirrored smoke is pulsed from the dark background towards the camera...
BONJOUR TRISTESSE
Robert CashBonjour tristesse is a sober portrait of a couple of young men, smoking their cigarette. The viewer is left alone to construct a narrative to go along with the emotions their eyes reveal....
UNE JOURNÉE AVEC MADAME AKAROVA
Ana Torfs - Jurgen PersijnFor this video work, made in 1989, during their studies at Sint-Lukas University College of Art and Design in Brussels, Jurgen Persijn and Ana Torfs worked together for the first time. As they were assigned to make a “video portrait” of someone, they chose Akarova, whose exhibition they had seen in 1988 in les Archives d’Architecture Moderne in Brussels...
BEING FUCKED UP
Emily Vey Duke - Cooper BattersbyBeing Fucked Up is a collection of nine short works about ego, happiness and holding on. It combines low-tech animation, performance, and beautifully written monologues to create a piece that is funny, intelligent, and above all human....
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...
QUE SERÁ SERÁ: CARMEN 84
Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La CasinièreA young, determined and beautiful girl decides to leave her mighty protector forever. The woman in the video is laying in front of images of hotel rooms pasted on the background. She’s singing the tale of this modern Carmen....
CONTAINER
Messieurs DelmotteA bottle of wine is hanging from the side of a container. It is pulled towards the opening of the container by an invisible thread. Seconds before reaching the hole, the bottle falls to the ground and shatters. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
LOW TIDE
Lukas MarxtA glacier. Icebergs. Floating icebergs. Cold fog gliding through the folds since eras. There is not much to see. As there is hardly something. Actually nothing. One speaks of polar bears and goes ashore only armed. One speaks of the cold and goes below. But actually there is only water. An element in variation. Water, ice and fog. Can you see anything? Something different? I don´t think so...
IJSBREKER 19: VERZAMELEN VAN KUNSTVOORWERPEN
Jef Cornelis - Johan Cloetens - Jackie Claeys - Mark De GeestAn episode of ‘Ijsbreker’ around the collection of artefacts (like Japanese Netsuke and swords, miniatures and sculptures), in which the opinions of a number of collectors, traders and art historians meet in real-time...
