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Les films rêvés, 2009, Eric Pauwels © the artist
LES FILMS RÊVÉS
Eric PauwelsIn the work of the filmmaker, author and director Eric Pauwels (1953), cinema and life are inseparably intertwined. His documentaries, sometimes called ’half-films’, take on the role of memory, weaving fiction with ethnography and questioning the spectator’s impressions of the subject...
THE LAST NIGHT OF THE NIGHTMAN
Els DietvorstA documentary about a 24 hours playbacknight in a poor neighbourhood in Brussels....
EGG MUSIC
Filip FrancisThe same performance as in the video ‘Mensen en eieren’ (‘People and Eggs’), where people dressed in white are throwing eggs, is recorded from the other side. Now the viewer can see the eggs getting smashed against a white wall. The wall gets completely covered in egg yolk...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER - QUOTATIONS
Mira SandersThe text is a series of quotations from Salman Rushdie, Han Lorzing, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Slavoj Žižek. All quotations concern the concept of (invisible) frontiers, and therefore of landscapes themselves....
ASK THE INSECTS
Steve ReinkePart home-made science (before it became doctrine), part animated video reverie, Reinke’s brief and episodic compression is an incendiary release which opens by announcing the death of the reader, of any audience capable of pulling its fragments together, or better, of dissolving into its tissues, of allowing the body to change shape, to identify, for instance, with an insect. Or a stone....
TOURIST RENOUNCEMENT
Messieurs DelmotteThe video ’Tourist renouncement’ was originally recorded in 1995 in Togo, as part of the project ‘Afrikanisch-Europäische Inspiration’, set up by Togolese artist El Loko who was living in Germany. For two months eight artists from various countries in Europe and Africa worked on this cultural exchange...
LA MER À VOIR
Jacques LennepLennep describes a certain scene by the sea with an island in the background. He adopts various poses and sums up the various possibilities of the place....
MADNESS AND OTHER TALES
Grace SchwindtThe fragility of the human body is addressed in Madness and Other Tales, a live performance in which soprano Lisa Cassidy and Vertixe Sonora Ensemble perform a new score written by Grace Schwindt. This piece is based on the 'Aria of Madness' from Gaetano Donizetti’s 19th-century opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor'...
CHUTE D'UNE CHAISE
Michel FrançoisThis video shows us a chair falling down a staircase. It bumps and breaks. This gesture poses the artistic act as one of mutilation. Defacing everyday objects in this way alters the way in which we perceive them....
