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Straatman Army, 2000, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
STRAATMAN ARMY
Angel VergaraDuring ’Over the Edges’, a group exhibition in the inner city of Ghent in 2000, Vergara’s alter ego Straatman gives a performance. Seated underneath a white canvas in the inner city of Ghent, Vergara (as his alter ego) draws and records the surrounding sounds and comments...
DE 10 SCHILDERIJEN VAN ETIENNE ELIAS
Jef CornelisProduced in the context of the Flemish public cultural organisation "Openbaar Kunstbezit", the Belgian painter Etienne Elias presents his ten favorite paintings in Flemish art collections. Each presentation is unique, humorous and creatively critical about cultural institutions, producers, buyers and onlookers....
DOCUMENTA 6
Peter de Leuw - Hansgeorg DickmannPart 1: documenta 6 1977, 40’26", German spoken, English subtitles. Part 2: documenta 6 - Ad hoc Diskussion nach der Eröffnung der Documenta 6 1977, 44’50", German spoken, English subtitles....
HOME MOVIES
Vito AcconciThe autobiographical film ‘Home Movies’ reveals the psychological circuit that Acconci weaves into many of his works. It is a meta-document in which Acconci presents his work in chronological order from 1969. Seated in the dark with his back to the cameral and his face to the screen, he projects slides of earlier works...
MUET COMME UNE CARPE
Boris LehmanFrom pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed ‘in the Polish fashion’, also called in yiddish ‘Gefilte Fish’ is a traditional dish eaten by Ashkenazi Jews. It is cooked, sweetened and served as a cold dish at the start of the meal...
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...
FINAL THOUGHTS, PART ONE
Steve ReinkeAs his final work, Reinke is assembling a string of ‘final thoughts’ – thoughts and images which are, if not definitive, final. The work will be added to as time goes on and not be completed until the artist’s death....
VARKENSPEST / PESTE PORCINE
Jan VrommanFor several times the native village of the video maker, Wingene, was an epicentre of swine fever. Shaken by the mass destruction of pigs the artist made a poetical videogram with some self-made images and images from the TV news. Homage to the swines who fell on the sacrificial altars of profit seeking....
