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REGARDING THE PAIN OF SUSAN SONTAG (NOTES ON CAMP)
Steve ReinkeThis short video gets its name from two pieces of writing by Susan Sontag: her last book, ’Regarding the Pain of Others’, a meditation on empathy and the photograph as document; and the highly influential essay, now close to fifty years old, ’Notes on Camp’. Sontag’s work often questions photography’s ability to elicit empathy within the viewer...
TRAVELOGUE 4: COMING FROM THE WRONG SIDE
Stefaan DecostereAlthough this Travelogue is essentially a touristic program, Stefaan Decostere’s view introduces no peaceful landscape. The area, Banff, is presented as a recycled product of a generic past, where archetypal images are layered to create the illusion of the passage of time...
RICHTINGEN
Philippe Van SnickIn the bright, blue sky airplanes have left the traces of their engines, with lines of white clouds as result. They are the minimalist painters of the sky. Some lines are very visible, while others are already fading away....
PEINTURE À L'HUILE N°3
Thomas BernardetThe video camera records the motor of a running car filmed in close-up for 45mn....
Hervé Doyen, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
HERVÉ DOYEN
Angel VergaraHervé Doyen explains how he, as the mayor of Jette, relates himself to art and culture. Filmed at the Atelier 340, Doyen states that a mayor should ensure that all ways of expression are given opportunity, without him interfering with what is actually being created....
TELEVESSEL
Joëlle de La CasinièreTelevessel is a classified television work (in the sense intended by Georges Perec) and an initial rational attempt at television aesthetics. Based on a typology of ‘trunk-men’ and ‘talking heads’, this praying figure of the small screen has arranged a huge all-musical composition known as an ‘oratorio’ on account of its obvious character of sacred art...
1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH 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...
Gand Sud, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
GAND SUD
Angel VergaraVergara filmed this piece looking southward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition which took place in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand, he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...
nostalgia, 2009, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp
NOSTALGIA
Pieter GeenenEtymologically, the word ’nostalgia’ is derived from the Greek words ’nostos’ and ’algos’, meaning ’return’ and ’suffering’...
LA VIE COMPLEXE
Reinaart VanhoeA repetitious experiment made with a found footage-sequence. The image, showing a group of schoolchildren mounting a stairway, is blurred and distorted by wire fencing. The ragged soundtrack, at first totally incomprehensible, gets clearer and clearer as the image gradually focuses. "The complex life shows itself bit by bit to him’’, a French voice reads out at the end....
