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Y,X
Shelbatra JashariShelbatra Jashari’s films are grounded in experimental films of the 1960s and ’70s, fused with contemporary concerns, both personal and social. Jashari creates fragmented, grainy, dreamy visual sequences that unfold randomly. ‘Y,X’ is a personal travelogue which leads through the Balkans to northern France...
14-18 (PEINTURES D'HISTOIRE)
Jacques LennepLennep visits the trenches of World War I and waves the Belgian flag....
BURROUGHS VERTICAL?
Hänzel & Gretzel‘Burroughs Vertical?’, a video installation on six monitors and made with four tapes, mixes the voice and photos of the American Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs with a flashing stream of image fragments. Two balls made out of concentric circles in green and orange keep spinning around like they are trying to hypnotize the audience...
Shelly Silver, exceptional happenings, 2008 © the artist
EXCEPTIONAL HAPPENINGS
Shelly SilverLike the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped here...
APHASIA
Jelena JurešaAphasia focuses on the absurdity that arises from the collective silence surrounding crime and the compartmentalisation of historical events. In medical vocabulary ‘aphasia’ refers to the sufferer’s difficulty in finding words or losing the ability to speak...
OUR CIRCUMSCRIBED DAYS
Hans Van den BroeckIn 1999 Hans Van Den Broeck made this rhythmical portrait of Moscow. He did not focus on the real Moscow, but rather on the myth of the metropolitan city, with its inhabitants as actors. He wanted to capture the Russian spirit, in all its absurdity. Conflict situations, incongruities, funny or absurd situations, however minimal, drew his attention...
MENSEN EN EIEREN
Filip FrancisThis video is a document on a performance carried out by Filip Francis and a bunch of people dressed in white. They start, at an accelerating speed, throwing eggs on a wall. The viewer doesn’t see the eggs getting smashed, but only hears the crushing sound....
THE ROSES
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte goes to a public garden and with a pair of gardening shears he cuts all the roses from a rose bed. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...
LE JEUNE ARTISTE BOUFFE
Claude Degueldre"It’s delicious to devour those greasy substances that we have to absorb. We all know how wonderful it is to nourish oneself with culture, to drench oneself in knowledge and make a meal of it. So, licking my lips upon seeing so much to eat and drink, I put myself forward as young devouring artist." (Claude Degueldre)...
