COLLECTIE

IT’S QUICKER BY HEARSE · THE TALE OF THE PETITIONING HOUSEWIFE, THE PROTESTING SCHOOLBOY AND THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL STUDENT

Esther Johnson
When Madge Elliot complained about the announced closure of her local train station in Hawick, her mother told her to do something about it, and that’s just what she did...

THE OTHER SIDE

Peter Downsbrough
In his early work Downsbrough was already trying to generate syntax between place and meaning, language and space. ’The Other Side’ shows two aspects of the urbane surroundings: the anonymous commotion of the city centre and the intimate alienation within the flats. A street scene is followed by a long shot of a bickering man and woman, the camera keeps close after them...

3 BLOCS

Claude Cattelain
Holding three blocks against a wall with my head....

DANSER RAVEL ET DEBUSSY

Thierry De Mey
Three choreography devised from orchestral works of Ravel and Debussy. Mother Goose (Ravel) brings together over sixty dancers and choreographers in a forest. Poetry of nature, wild impulses of the body, evocations of myths, fairies and witches...

LEWITT HESSE RICHARD SILVER

Frances Richard - Shelly Silver
The assignment was to make a gift for the artist Sol Lewitt (1927-2007). Legendarily generous to other artists, Lewitt exchanged works with anyone who sought him out, from famous peers to admirers who sent him unsolicited objects and images. Filmmaker Shelly Silver asked her close friend, writer Frances Richard, to collaborate by contributing text for a short film...

The Interpreter, 2009 Maria Iorio & Raphaël Cuomo © the artist(s) & producer(s)

THE INTERPRETER

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
The Interpreter proposes a perspective on mobility towards Europe as it can be perceived and experienced from the Maghreb. The video evokes the time between a clandestine crossing of the Mediterranean Sea at the end of the 90’s and a recent forced return. It is based on elements from an ongoing field research by geographer Makrem Mandhouj...

STRING QUARTET DESCRIBING THE MOTIONS OF LARGE REAL BODIES

Robert Ashley
String Quartet Describing The Motions of Large Real Bodies’ was composed as the potential orchestra for an opera based on the text of ’In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men And Women’...

Meurtre, 2008, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

MEURTRE

Angel Vergara
With a brush, Vergara traces the cinematic images of an illegal dumping spot near the Brussels metro station Beekkant, and the man lying in it. Vergara is turning his attention to the underbelly of society, integrating a scene that is as absurd as it is awkward....

AS SOL TO EVA

Teresa Cos
The appropriation of the famous letter that Sol LeWitt wrote in 1965 to artist and friend Eva Hesse is at the center of this work. In what seems to be a Skype conversation with a distant friend -wearing a t-shirt printed with LeWitt’s hand drawing as it appears on the manuscript- the letter becomes a two way pep talk in the mouth of an online oracle...

LE PLEIN DU VIDE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière
The Beaubourg neighbourhood in Paris is completely abandoned by its inhabitants. Has the plague struck? Perhaps we are quite simply in the month of August, when Parisians have all gone on holiday? A void...