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Peter DownsbroughWith his videos Downsbrough creates natural portraits of urban environments. Everyday surroundings are observed, dissected and transformed into architectural illustrations, with a proper sense of order and chaos. In long, steady shots and travellings space is reduced and abstracted into minimalist constructions, simultaneously they assume identifiability...
LE PETIT JEUNE HOMME DE BINCHE
Jan VrommanCarnival in the Belgian town of Binche is not just a revel and an orgy. It’s subject to strict rules. Every male inhabitant of Binche can become ’Gilles’. Every Gilles puts on a colourful suit and is accompanied by a drummer wherever he goes. On top of this the Gilles all wear the same wax mask during the afternoon of carnival...
GRAVITY
Nicolas ProvostPlaying with the physiological and cinematographic principle of the after-image, Provost causes dozens of fast-edited kissing scenes from European and American film classics to collide...
LUNDI DE PÂQUES
Emilio López-MencheroThe Trying to be … series by Emilio López-Menchero is a series of photographs and video-performances where the artist embodies a mythical figures. Among them, López-Menchero already tried to be Ramirez Sanchez alias "Carlos", Yasser Arafat, James Ensor, Bin Laden, Frida Kalho, Rasputin or even Rrose Sélavy...
TOMBEAU POUR M.B.
Jacques LennepA bone in the Belgian tricolour is lying at the foot of a statue. Lennep takes it and erases the three colours. He then buries the bone in a field. The work alludes to the burial of Marcel Broodthaers. ...
EGYPT 2002
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée’s piece is a video portrait of modern Egypt. Video clips of traditional and modern aspects of life in Egypt are juxtaposed. From architecture to mummified corpses in the desert, Coca-Cola advertisements to a busy traffic junction, wedding dresses to a reverse image of a statue. Pacquée blends the stereotypical with the unexpected, the familiar and the unfamiliar...
Les artistes, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LES ARTISTES
Angel VergaraIn ’Les artistes’, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and painter Antoine Wiertz make an appearance by means of a historical performance. Video clips of historical documents and catalogues are interspersed with recordings of contemporary artists, like Jan Fabre. In this way, Vergara creates a historically layered perspective on ’the Belgian artist’...
ON TAPE FROM THE JUDSON YEARS
Philip Corner’On tape from the Judson days. Remember? When you made these things at home, on the best equipment you or your other poor friends could find? Electronic music from the 1960s. And you had that Japanese tape recorder with built-in mike; indeed that was the only piece of furniture on your tatami floor on the Lower East Side that summer of 1961...
THE BRIDGE (1)
Monsieur DelmotteDelmotte hangs over a bridge and shits on the highway. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
Inventur / Invocation. I have calculated ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist
INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE CALCULATED ...
Ralo MayerPerhaps appearing a little out of place, Mayer’s choice of ’calculated’ as the fourth explored verb in this project complements the first three. Beginning with “I have calculated the end”, this list demonstrates some of the many things which my be calculated. Time zones, tiles on a floor financial details, emotional and geographical distance, years of fertility...
