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THE FINE ARTS
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey DukeIn ’The Fine Arts’, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby mock their own lack of inspiration: a woman confesses that she’s speaking French in the nude because she has no good ideas but admits that her solution is unoriginal. "I hate the fine arts, I am disgusted by the fine arts, because, um, the fine arts are always made with artifice."...
CENTRAL ALBERTA
Emmanuel Van der AuweraBestgore.com (BG) was created by Slovak-Canadian Mark Marek in 2008. The website hosts explicit photographic and video material of events including murders, suicides, torture, mutilation and horrific accidents. With an estimated 40 million yearly visits, BG is currently the biggest shock site in the world. Through authored opinion and user comments, the website exalts extreme ideas...
NEWSPAPERS MAN
Messieurs DelmotteA short video performance, in which we see Monsieur Delmotte entering the image, covered completely with newspapers. He frees himself from the newspapers and walks away from the camera, leaving the papers behind. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...
OLD CLOUDS
Charley CaseA cloudy sky can be seen through a circular form and, closer by, flames and black smoke can be discerned. A view of the sky through an exhaust pipe? Or is the viewer is looking down into a trash can into which Case has effectively tossed both clouds and sky — and set them on fire....
ASH TREE
Sarah Vanagt"A girl touches tombstones in a graveyard. Her hand glides over the letters and carved inscriptions. Can she read death? Can she see death? In Ash Tree, the beginning of knowledge - the alphabet - mingles with the end of all knowledge: death...
RIB GETS IN THE WAY
Steve ReinkeSteve Reinke has long been lauded for his irreverent, philosophical, and often acerbic works, which typically adopt the form of personal essays to wryly bend and reread wide-ranging topics from pop culture to sex to theories of visual perception and beyond...
100 JAAR / 100 ANS
Jan VrommanA simple but utterly moving ‘in memorium’ for 100 years of cinema as wel as 100 years of exploitation of the working class. In 1995, it was exactly hundred years ago that the Frères Lumière made their first film, ‘Workers Leaving the Factory’: the birth of cinema...
LA VIE POLITIQUE DES BELGES
Jan BucquoyThe fifth full feature project of Jan Bucquoy fits in with an encompassing concept of ‘looking at Belgium in a specific way’. In this documentary he follows the 1999 election campaign of two mini parties. On the one hand there is Vivant, the party of Roland Duchâtelet, with a central topic of the right to a basic income for all...
GAZES
Roy VillevoyePapuan men and women are portrayed frontally for a set length of time. They look us directly in the eye. Their persistent gaze produces feelings of empathy and unease....
Playa de Benicassim, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PLAYA DE BENICASSIM
Angel VergaraWith his brush, Vergara traces images filmed on the beach of Benicasim....
