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UNTITLED PART 8: ESQUINA CALIENTE
Jayce SalloumIn Havana there is a park where every Sunday men gather to discuss and debate, vigorously and passionately for hours on end. The smallest details and the grandest schemes are mulled over, successes and failures, posturing for and against, supportive or criticized. Not without humour, it is an intense form of entertainment and theatre in a personal and collective environment...
S*CKMYP [4 SHORT FILMS VERSION]
Kurt D'HaeseleerS*CKMYP drops the spectator in a world continuously bombarded with digital fragmentation bombs. People wander through a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of trembling bodies and mutating buildings until they are swallowed by a yawning void. Lost pixels nestle like parasites under the skin and drag them through an everyday world that looks strange beyond recognition...
ADIEU TRISTESSE
Robert CashOn the face of it Adieu Tristesse is a black comedy which takes as its subject the act of ’sawing-the-lady-in-half’. We are comforted by our familiarity with this illusion and are sure all will be well in the end. Meanwhile the piece operates on another symbolic level in so far as it alludes to trick effects employed in early cinematography to heighten suspense and theatricality...
PIETER ENGELS, PARAMARCHE (REVERSE EVENT)
Jef CornelisCornelis prefers to make use of the medium of television to show a work by the Amsterdam artist Pieter Engels in its conceptual form, in stead of supplying a typical purely sterile and pedantic framework. Similar to his other work from the 1960s and 1970s, Engels focuses on tiny, everyday things, creating confusion by questioning expectations and preconditions...
MOBY DICK
Jan BultheelJan Bulteel gave the subtitle “a sentimental epic” to his oeuvre, and that is precisely to what we are treated here. A sailor who has got into low water sets out on a quest to find the love of his life in the port of Antwerp. But with merely an old photograph of her in his pocket, he doesn’t get very far...
ARMATURE VARIABLE (L'ART DANS LES CHAPELLES)
Claude CattelainConstantly rebuilding a structure which is deliberately unstable, and whose form shifts and evolves with each new collapse and reconstruction....
MY NAME IS KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Steve ReinkeThis is the atomic age; the material itself must be part of the creative act. One no longer forms a given material, one must also create the material.” Loosely adapted from interviews Stockhausen gave in the late 60s and early 70s. Vera Frenkel voices the composer. DNA structures, molecular life and astral projections fuse in synesthetic visions rooted in aurality....
10DE BIËNNALE VAN MIDDELHEIM ANTWERPEN [1969]
Jef CornelisA short and playful portrayal of life and customs, disguised as a filmed exhibition, during the 10th Biennial for sculpture in Middelheim. The gardens and sculptures of the open air museum make out the scenery for a bucolical and frivolous atmospheric and periodical portrayal, with Flemish poet and filmmaker Patrick Conrad in a leading role: “trees like statues, statues like bombs”...
COGELS OSYLEI, BERCHEM
Jef CornelisCogels Osylei is an unique district, built around 1900 on the outskirts of Antwerp. With its exuberant mixture of neo-styles and Jugendstil, it was often discarded as the absolute limit of bad taste, to the point that plans were made in the 1970s to tear down the area altogether...
