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NACHTKOORTS
Frank Theys"Night fever" is a portrait of a character with anxiety disorder. The installation is inspired on the story The Cave by Franz Kafka. It’s depicting a secluded man, locked up in his own world he cultivates his fear. Leaving his apartment he tentatively reaches out for help...
BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, ENGLISH VERSION]
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
Philippe Braem, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PHILIPPE BRAEM
Angel VergaraAt the Centre for Fine Arts, where Phillippe Braem works and where an exhibition of the works of Nico Dockx and Christophe Terlinden is being held, Braem explains his opinion about the freedom of the artist. He particularly wonders how an artist is able to maintain his freedom when he becomes enmeshed in systems endangering that freedom...
IMPROVISATION
Eric PauwelsIn ‘Improvisation’, Pauwels films Pierre Droulers improvising to the music of Thierry De Mey in a one-sequence shot. A dancer and a camera-man limited in space and time. Both improvise within the confines of this setting. An uninterrupted take. We hear the tones of an exciting staccato rhythm...
FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 7
Claude CattelainDoing a video each day. Day 7: another attempt to bring a wooden piece to the sea....
WHITE LADY
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystA videodance inspired by David Lynch’s 'The Elephant Man'. Though not clearly obvious in the piece, Nyst presents five tableaux that recall John Merrick’s mother’s life. The piece, openly Romantic and dramatic, flirts with the border of kitsch...
TO EACH HIS OWN MASK
Tine GunsWe live in times of crises and failing economic systems. No wonder that questions of change are recurrent. Protest culture is having a revival. Every revolution has its icons. Nowadays, we see the mask show up. Wearing a mask is a carnivalesque strategy. Carnival is a ritual, temporarily dismantling social and political regimes, suspending norms and values...
Les amours, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LES AMOURS
Angel VergaraImages of lions in the wild are combined with media images of Dutch- and French-speaking politicians, journalists and media personalities. On the soundtrack lions roaring can be heard sporadically while the artist traces the movie images with gestures as though painting...
WE HAD FUN YESTERDAY
Marion GuillardWhen I was younger, I hated my body as much as I was obsessed by images of "Nature". On the one hand, I told myself they were sublime, and that's why they existed, and on the other, I felt that as a woman, if people didn't look at me, I'd disappear. The film runs around my character's experience...
