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VU’CUMPRA? - BIENNALE DE VENISE 99
Emilio López-MencheroVu’cumpra? - Biennale de Venise 99 is a report of a performance realized in Venice in 1999. In the frame of the project En attendant l’année dernière (Waiting for last year), curated by Laurent Jacob, Lino Polegato from Flux-News organized a parallel project called No Milk Today on the notion of churn...
HOUSEGAME
Harald Thys'Housegame' is a found-footage video with a voice-over of two friends that can only hear each other through a telephone connection. The two select a house and a character from a series of images and make up a story about what they see. It is as if they are able to enter houses from a distance and spy on people....
ACHTEROVER/BACKWARDS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenA woman leaning backwards changes colour slowly, which gives the image an aspect of certain periods of time in art history. Abstract forms come and go like thoughts. The motionless figure relates to the abstract, like colours relate to the giving of a meaning of the image...
WANDELEN IN BINNENLAND: PORTRET VAN DE FOTOGRAAF JULIEN COULOMMIER
Jan VrommanThe Belgian photographer Julien Coulommier doesn’t deal in the exotic, the eccentric, the technical performance; he penetrates the depth of banality, he is profoundly connected with his subjects. An Inland Walk is not only a portrait of a photographer, but also a portrait of the artistic context, the spirit of the time in which the work was developed (Cobra, etc.)...
WILLI TOBLER UND DER UNTERGANG DER 6. FLOTTE
Alexander KlugeAfter Der große Verhau (1971), Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6. Flotte (Willi Tobler and the Decline of the 6th Fleet) is another unusual science fiction tale by Alexander Kluge. Shot on a deliberately low budget and stylistically intended to evoke the cinema of Georges Méliès, Willi Tobler und der Untergang der 6...
ANARCHIST PILGRIMS
Charley CaseA 55 seconds split screen clip where Charley Case combines a scene of a pilgrim with images of an anarchist truck going to a protest. ...
VERTIGO OR THE AREA OF FREE CATALOGUES
Jan De CockJan De Cock created this installation in the autumn of 1999 at Argos, where it was also exhibited. According to the artist, the work is “a three-dimensional mise en scène with videos and construction material.” At Argos, the artist created various wooden constructions in which four videos were shown...
POISON PETALS
Peter FinnemoreTwo young girls in camouflage battle dress try to break all the glass panels of a greenhouse....
TU NE VERRAS PAS VERAPAZ
Didier Volckaert - An van. DienderenThere is an old song from Ghent, ‘Wie goat er mee noar Verapas?’ (Who goes along to Verapaz?), that was popular at the beginning of the last century. It refers to an unfamiliar piece of Belgium’s history: the former Belgian colony in Guatemala, Santo Tomas de Castilla...
JOHN THOMPSON
Angel VergaraThe British art critic Jon Thompson offers a one-liner: "Most artists can’t deal with very small amount of freedom that they have, otherwise they’d make better art."...









