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WIDEAWAKE
Orla BarryLanguage, in written as well as in spoken form, constitutes the essence of Orla Barry’s work. She ties words into phrases, kneads sentences into paragraphs, ending up with a visual as well as verbal unity, an apparently non-structured stream-of-consciousness with an open and poetical structure. The monologue in ’Wideawake’ is performed by Caroline Donnely...
LA FILLE QUI DESCEND L'ESCALIER
Joëlle Tuerlinckxoriginal material from "After Architecture After", an exhibition by Joëlle Tuerlinckx curated by Moritz Küng 03.11.2006-25.11.2006 deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium...
VERSUS & VERSUS
Messieurs DelmotteA girl is lying in a sunny summer garden, face down in the grass. When Messieurs Delmotte appears in the picture, he sits down on her body. In the second part of the movie, the roles are reversed. Another absurd action from this infamous Belgian performer....
HOME MOVIES
Vito AcconciThe autobiographical film ‘Home Movies’ reveals the psychological circuit that Acconci weaves into many of his works. It is a meta-document in which Acconci presents his work in chronological order from 1969. Seated in the dark with his back to the cameral and his face to the screen, he projects slides of earlier works...
THE CONTENT OF THE STATE
Grace SchwindtA two screen installation video piece. Screen 1: The Content of the State is Family, but also Law, Health, Religion, Jew, German, Nation, Race, People, Human Kind, Ancestor, Men, We, You (plural), You (singular). A convergence to and distancing from a document (“Explanatory Leaflet for Those Getting Married”, published in Germany in approx...
THE WAY OF THE CROSS
Robert CashThe Way of the Cross is a contemporary video variation on the Way of the Cross, as it is depicted in 14 stations on paintings in Christian churches. Cash’s Way of the Cross is taken by train, each platform where the train stops representing a scene from the Way of the Cross in a sober way – without making use of requisites or historical costumes...
UTOPIA ANDATA E RITORNO
Walter Marchetti"Music: the foundation of that presence in which we find ourselves shows itself as pure negative. Everything is founded on a demonstration of its own negativity: as awareness of its being negative, and does not look for an escape into a future presence, that is an objective future...
STRING QUARTET DESCRIBING THE MOTIONS OF LARGE REAL BODIES
Robert AshleyString Quartet Describing The Motions of Large Real Bodies’ was composed as the potential orchestra for an opera based on the text of ’In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men And Women’...
ARGOS!OOGGAAHHGGRRAAHHOOHSSS!
Charlemagne PalestineSince the 1970s composer, performer and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine has become known for his experimental, ritualistic music and for challenging Western audiences’ expectations of what is ‘beautiful’ and meaningful in music...
