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Frank Theys"Night fever" is a portrait of a character with anxiety disorder. The installation is inspired on the story The Cave by Franz Kafka. It’s depicting a secluded man, locked up in his own world he cultivates his fear. Leaving his apartment he tentatively reaches out for help...
BLENDER
Hans Op de BeeckThe video opens with a view of a deserted carousel. After a pause, the carousel slowly begins to turn, spinning faster and faster, the horses and the carriages blending into a single image, which blurs and disappears as the speed increases. As the speed decreases, the image of the carousel reappears and the fairground ride comes to a standstill. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...
FIR TREE
Messieurs DelmotteIn a public park the protagonist approaches a pine with a small ladder. He unfolds it, takes a run up, and jumps into a tree, desperately trying to clench on to it. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
... UNSEEN BY THE GARDENER
Marie-France Martin - Patricia Martin’…unseen by the gardener’ was made for the exhibition of Tempered Ground at the Museum of Garden History in London and recorded in the gardens surrounding this museum, located in a medieval church...
In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod, Alexander Kluge, 1974. copyright
IN GEFAHR UND GRÖSSTER NOT BRINGT DER MITTELWEG DEN TOD
Alexander KlugeFrankfurt, 1974. It's Carnival time. Two women live independently in the same city. One is called Inge Maier and she is a prostitute. The other is Rita Mueller-Eisert and she is a DDR-spy who must report her officers about the life in the Federal Republic. While Inge is sleeping with the police vice president, Rita sees that the police forcibly evicts students from occupied buildings...
ANESTHÉSIE
Hänzel & GretzelWith Doctor Terror, the anaesthesia always goes wrong. A trashy music video for the French electro-dada group Geins ’t Naït with whom Hänzel & Gretzel collaborated frequently....
L'ENTARTEMENT DE BILL GATES
Jan BucquoyThe last ‘entartement’ in a long series by the world famous Belgian ‘entarist’ Noël Godin, Bill Gates’s Pie-in-the-Face....
4 X 4 - EPISODES OF SINGAPORE ART : EPISODE 2: CHEO CHAI HIANG – A THOUSAND SINGAPORE RIVERS
Tzu Nyen HoCheo Chai Hiang's '5ft x 5ft (Singapore River)' (1972) can be said to mark the beginning of conceptual art in Singapore. It was essentially a set of instructions that Cheo mailed from the UK to the Modern Art Society in Singapore in 1972 for their annual exhibition. The fact that this work was rejected forms the spine of episode 2, in which two hosts take on the roles of employer and employee...
THE QUEER ARE DEAD LONG LIVE THE QUEER
Karen VanderborghtA deconstructivist miniature. Images of a woman gently whispering in the ear of another woman are constantly jumping and changing colour. The ragged soundtrack evokes the media overload we face in the global village. The filmmaker calls her tape “a plea for tolerance”....
LE ROI N'EST PAS MON COUSIN
Annabelle AventurinThe author of the book Sunny Karukera, Stranded Guadeloupe (1980), Elzea Foule Aventurin engaged, in 2017, in a series of interviews with her granddaughter, the filmmaker Annabelle Aventurin. Together they trace—not without malice—a family history, sailing from one side of the black Atlantic to the other. A history of silences, pride, and revolt....
