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OPERA AND STEEL
Grace SchwindtOpera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...
CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 2)
Michel François- Arpenteur: A caterpillar is crawling over a geographical map, exploring the borders of the surface. - ’Tourner’ (2): A man is carrying a beam on which the camera seems to be attached. The floor and his shoes are squeaking. The camera rotates around and around the man. - ’Pigeons’: A bunch of pigeons are being filmed in close-up while they are trying to eat...
NAZARETH
Peter Krüger‘Nazareth’ is an audio-visual quest for the still living fragments of Christian spirituality: in Nazareth-Belgium, Nazareth-Ghana and Nazareth-Israel. The work focuses on suffering and spirituality of ordinary people in three different villages sharing more than just a name...
CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 1)
Michel François- ’Frigolith’ (extract): Tiny Styrofoam balls, blasted by an invisible force. They seem caught in the screen. The fixed frame prevents us from seeing what they’re in, where they’re coming from. The tight framing closes the image in order to open it. - ’Passage nuageux’: A shadow is cast over a desert-mountain...
KORAAL
Lili DujourieKoraal (Coral, 1978) is constructed around the close-up image of fingers slowly peeling an orange, separating the segments of flesh and throwing the fruit’s sections, one by one, off-camera. This concrete action that doesn't represent anything but itself emits a heightened sensuality...
SAHARA CHRONICLE : A COLLECTION OF VIDEOS ON MOBILITY AND THE POLITICS OF CONTAINMENT IN THE SAHARA
Ursula BiemannA collection of videos on mobility and the politics of containment in the Sahara...
THE TREE HOUSE
Trương Minh Quý"In Trương Minh Quý’s striking second feature, a man living on Mars in the year 2045 examines footage brought back from his encounters with an indigenous community in the jungles of Vietnam. As he experiments, his thoughts drift from matters of identity, aesthetics, and the politics of imagemaking, to ritual burial practices, to the seen and unseen forces that shape cultures...
AN ORDER OF THINGS
Grace SchwindtThe performance took place at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in September 2014. One performer is hovering horizontally a meter above the ground and the other, a magician, is sitting on a chair in a corner, turned away from the audience. She gets up four times to carry out dance choreographies and then sits down again...
UNE FEMME ENTREPRENANTE
Sven AugustijnenAfter weaving a tempting web of reality and fiction around Brussels Kunstberg (or Mont des Arts) during ’Mission Mont des Arts’ (2002), Augustijnen points his arrows in ’Une femme entreprenante’ on WIELS, a new centre for contemporary art in Brussels, and more particularly to its key figure, Sophie Le Clercq, building promoter and the true ‘force motrice’ behind...
