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BERLIN/NILREB: TOURIST JOURNAL
Ken KoblandAfter spending eight months in West Berlin as an artist in residence (1986-’87), Kobland wanted to send something back that would describe his impressions of living in a divided city...
DE LA FICTION EN PHOTOGRAPHIE (VENEZIA E CULTURA)
Danny MatthysIn 'De la fiction en photographie (On Fiction in Photography)'—released on the occasion of the International Symposium on Photography in Venice, in 1984—Danny Matthys keeps literarily aside and lets the philosopher Paul Willemarck read a theoretical text about photography...
QUARTET
Wim CatrysseIn Wim Catrysse’s Quartet (2002), a single-channel installation, we see four men bending over. The camera films them from a bird’s-eye view. The men are inside a dark space and seem to find it hard to keep their balance on the moving floor. Though the characters constantly move slightly, they seem frozen, waiting in relation to each other...
PANAMARENKO: PORTRAIT EN SON ABSENCE
Claudio PazienzaOne of a number of possible portraits of The sculptor from Antwerp withdrawn from a film project about his person. From that moment on, how is it possible to make a portrait, if the main person concerned is not there? The author resorts to ostriches, to archives, special effects, to evoke the world of Panamarenko....
DEFECT CHAIR
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tries, rather unsuccessfully, to stand on a chair....
GOTT GOOD LORD
Hänzel & GretzelLook at her while she’s taking a shower, she has nice tits and… but is she really a she? Physical schizophrenia begins behind the mask....
MADE IN BELGIUM
Vincent MeessenMade in Belgium has a double nature. It’s a work in itself but it’s also a silent preview for a film that doesn’t yet exist and may never exist. That’s why the protagonist, played by Laurent Flamand, is but a torch-bearer of another hidden story...
A BIT OF MATTER AND A LITTLE BIT MORE
Lawrence Weiner‘A Bit of Matter and A Little Bit More’ places individuals next to objects and language, in a kaleidoscope of possible layers of interpretation. The images in this work are of an explicit sexual nature...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 42. MY PERSONAL VIRUS
Steve ReinkeSo this is a particle of me, this little sketch. It’s pretty schematic, but it should give you some idea of how it functions, my personal virus, my envoy into the world of corporeal intimacy....
EL CAMINO DEL TIEMPO
Peter BrosensFor the indigenous people in the Ecuadorean Andes, drinking has a very special meaning. It helps overcoming conflicts among people, and it enables the communication with the world of the spirits. In particular for the old people, drinking is like a river flowing slowly into the world of the dead...
