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FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 2
Claude CattelainDoing a video each day. Day 2: filming the sea waves on the rocky beach....
THE ABSTRACT ISN'T SEXUALLY STIMULATING
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenIn ’The abstract isn’t sexually stimulating’ , Van Kerckhoven gives a highly personal appearance to the battle between Eros and Thanatos.Between inside and outside, between good and evil thoughts, a game is played with the body and its thoughts through the animation of a drawing which resulted from her sub-consciousness. "Animation of a drawing from my subconscious...
JACQUES CHARLIER
Jef CornelisThe Belgian artist Jacques Charlier (°1939) worked for several years at the Provincial Technical Service (STP) in Liège. This experience influenced his artistic practice as he started to decontextualize STP photographs and documents – for example of images of the town, roads, drain pipes and water supply schemes - and presented them in different exhibition projects...
DAS HAUS
Aglaia KonradDas Haus is a new work that deepens the exploration of sculptural architecture that Aglaia Konrad conducted with the series of 16mm films Concrete and Samples...
BILE
Ira A. Goryainova"How thin is the human skin? What does it hide behind? The leather bag of apocalypse."Bile is an introspective essay on the notion of the human body as political metaphor. Layer-by-layer the film digs down in order to reach answers to the proposed questions: what is body, what is illness and finally, what is death...
FRON'T
Charley Case“Democracy with a military brain is the same thing as art without a brain. In the world of political twilight, where art along with life loses its place, war is imposed as a natural catastrophe because "there is no other solution"...
JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969
Jef CornelisDocumentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...
COMPOSITIE
Marie AndréAndré re-organizes time, rhythm and sound in her portrait of the new music composer/pianist Walter Hus, constructing a study of the process of composing. Playing on the title's double meaning — "composition" and "composite" — André isolates musical gestures and fragments time, recomposing Hus' evolving composition...
MÉTAPHORES
Gary BigotAll the events and actions in this video revolve around the number ten. They are all ’metaphors’ for that figure. A man is walking through the corridor of a historical building, numbering the pillars of the walls with a piece of chalk. A lady is counting to ten on her fingers. Likewise Bigot records images of ten windows, of ten jumps, and so on....
