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4 POINTS LIMITÉS
Jacques Louis Nyst'4 points limités / La caméra est reliée au magnétoscope par un câble de 100 mètres’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium and one of the few videos of the first Nyst period not to use a canvas-like white surface as a background...
20. JULI AACHEN 1964
Wolf VostellOften Vostell recycles images for his videos, like for '20 July 1964 Aachen', when a dé-coll/age happening was organized at the Technical University of Aachen. The date coincides with the anniversary of the failed attempt to kill Hitler. The happening itself involved a festival of new music and a protest against totalitarian structures...
PASSION DE L'ÉTÉ POUR L'HIVER
Lili DujourieIt's the one work in which Dujourie doesn’t perform migratory passage on and off camera. Rather, she slouches on a stool in the corner of a room, legs spread, hands between them, leaning against a wall most of time as though fatigued or bored. It's the only time she appears in feminine fashion and much more make-up than usual...
INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE / L'INVITATION AU VOYAGE
Meggy RustamovaMeggy Rustamova’s film Invitation to the voyage / L’invitation au voyage (2014), which derives its title from a poem by Baudelaire, is a suggestive examination of the potential of photography to tell stories (or history) and to let fact and fiction move closer together until the fuzziness of the pixels creating each photo has also taken hold of the narrative...
IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT IF YOU COME AGAIN, ONLY NEXT TIME DON’T BRING ANY GEAR, EXCEPT A TEA KETTLE…
Johan GrimonprezThe multi-channel installation ‘It will be all right if you come again, only next time don’t bring any gear, except a tea kettle…’ (1994-2004) explores the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Western imperialism...
White Shadows, 2009, Didier Volckaert © the artist
WHITE SHADOWS
Didier VolckaertThe first scientific expedition in the history of human exploration was launched in 1897. Destination: the recently discovered continent of Antarctica, which for more than 17 centuries had been nothing but an idea, a presumption, a myth. The Belgica expedition successfully reached Antarctica… and froze fast there...
THE LADDER 1
Messieurs DelmotteWith his head between two rungs Messieurs Delmotte tries to balance a ladder. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
PICASSO IN PARIJS (HEROPENING GRAND PALAIS)
Jef CornelisOriginal broadcast date: 22/11/1966 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Ludo Bekkers introducing the report on three exhibitions by Picasso opening at the Grand Palais, Petit Palais and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. 01’20" Photographs of Pablo Picasso working in his villa at Mougins. 01’50" Museum staff unwrapping sculptures...
MUSIQUE DE TABLES
Thierry De MeyMusique de tables is the film of the visual and music work of the same name created in 1987 : Three percussionists, each with only a little table as an instrument. The positions of the fingers and the hands and the rhythmic patterns are codified in a repertory of original symbols employed in the score...
