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FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 14

Claude Cattelain
Doing a video each day. Day 14: on a blue sky a red flag is blew by the wind....

WRITING DESIRE

Ursula Biemann
Writing Desire is about the rapport between words and body and the creation of desire. The fast-paced video links the writing of romantic desire by means of electronic communication technologies to the increasing disembodiment of sexuality and commercialized gender relations. The booming bride market emerges as a site where the virtual and the physical exchange of bodies converge...

CHRYSALIDE

Patrick Bernatchez
Chrysalide, for its part, unfolds in a circular travelling movement around a black BMW parked in the basement garage and slowly filling with water. A businessman sits at the wheel, serenely smoking a cigarette as the water level rises. The film ends with water bursting through the doors and windows of the car, saving the protagonist from certain death....

ONCE UPON A TIME

Emilio López-Menchero
When Gery van Tendeloo, the president of the association of collectors Liebaert Projects, proposed to give the city of Courtrai to Emilio López-Menchero, the artist immediately recalled that the city is known as the Texas of Flanders, but he also thought about Morris, the auteur of the comics series Lucky Luke...

VOAEX

Wolf Vostell
In the magical surroundings of the museum, a former launder- ette has been recycled for the video 'VOAEX'. This video features a series of concrete sculptures in front of the panorama and the gardens of the Museo Vostell, with huge rocks that are integrated in the work. (Berta Sichel)...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - VISIOPHONE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
Images of people using a video phone, with which one can see the face of his caller, are pasted together with other image fragments. A male voice-over tells us this is the new toy for all ages, but warns us that lying is required when using it. Then a female voice-over talks about the threatening aspect of this video phone....

LABORATORY

Edith Dekyndt
Edith Dekyndt used in 1995 Galerie L’Escaut as a laboratory, in a traditional scientific sense, to exhibit a dense series of ongoing and lengthy time-based ‘experiments’ impinging on a territory between the practices of sculpture and performance...

ROTOMOTOR

Anton Bruhin
"The new compact disc by Anton Bruhin issued by Alga Marghen is titled r o t o m o t o r and covers two different areas of the artist’s research...

VIDÉO HEBDO 24

Claude Cattelain
Hoping to be able to record his dreams Cattelain sets the camera in front of him while he is sleeping....