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PERFORMING THE BORDER
Ursula Biemann’Performing the Border’ is a video essay set in the Mexican-US border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment, located right across the border from El Paso, Texas. ’Performing the Border’ looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space constituted through the performance and management of gender relations...
LE SPECTATEUR
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
THE MARTYR
Hubert MarécailleFinding himself in a dream alone locked in a glass cage, beginning to panic, an office worker, on his way to work the next day and still marked by his nightmare, panics suddenly, – finding himself surrounded by a dense crowd, while trying to flee to be alone, suddenly oppressed by the outside world, or unconsciously, by his inner world... ...
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...
FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 12
Claude CattelainDoing a video each day. Day 12: walking in the streets of Brighton with a strange structure with a camera fixed on it....
UN PIED DANS LE JARDIN DE MIEL
Bernard MulliezWithin the framework of Europalia Europa festival (2007-2008), the CIVA in partnership with a supermarket group organized an exhibition called Supermarkets of Europe 1957-2007 in La Cambre Architecture School.Initially a mere financial supporter, the trade group became the very object of the exhibition, which illustrates the final outcome of the privatization of the cultural public services...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 90. VIDEO FOR INTELLECTUALS
Steve ReinkeSometimes it appears we are reaching a period where our senses and minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation....
VIVA PARADIS
Isabelle TollenaereViva Paradis captures a moment in a land, Tunisia, in the midst of transformation. From an abandoned luxury hotel and the ruins of Carthage to the traces of the recent revolution. The fighting is over, but what now? From March 10-16, 2011, filmmaker Isabelle Tollenaere recorded the peace following the revolution, by making images of the tourism industry...
UNE FEMME ENTREPRENANTE
Sven AugustijnenAfter weaving a tempting web of reality and fiction around Brussels Kunstberg (or Mont des Arts) during ’Mission Mont des Arts’ (2002), Augustijnen points his arrows in ’Une femme entreprenante’ on WIELS, a new centre for contemporary art in Brussels, and more particularly to its key figure, Sophie Le Clercq, building promoter and the true ‘force motrice’ behind...
