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JUMPY CHICKEN
Messieurs DelmotteThis time the title is particularly ironic as the chicken is not actually jumping. Two strings are attached to its legs, which are used to pull the chicken away. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
Retouches et Réparations, 2001-2008, Boris Lehman © the artist
RETOUCHES ET RÉPARATIONS
Boris Lehman"As I was shooting ’Story of My Life As Told by My Photographs’, part of which recounted my memories and the settings of my early childhood, I met up with my ‘oldest’ friend Richard Kenigsman (literally, ‘King’s Man’), whom I had known for more than sixty years. He had given me a photo album...
THE IDEAL CITY (TWO BOATS)
Katleen Vermeir - Ronny HeiremansSince 2001 Kathleen Vermeir and Ronny Heiremans have been working on a series of ‘Tableaux Vivants’, inspired on paintings, photos or even older images. In the tradition of classical as well as contemporary art the universal aspects of different human attitudes and architectural models are revealed...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER 19012009
Mira SandersThe second ’Silent Letter’ was written on April 15th, 2009. While the subtitles explain the rules of hopscotch and refer to a little girl who asked to play with her, we see a frozen image of a section of a breakwater (a manmade construction offering some protection to coastline). The animal sitting on the breakwater starts to run when the video shot does....
HISTOIRE D'UN CORPS
Jacques LennepA short conceptual work by this Belgian pioneering video artist about corporality and memory. The artist is in a room that resembles the lavatory of a school of gym. He takes off his suit and a female voice-over starts to sum up some of his physical problems and ailments: scars on the knee, a curvature of the spine due to scoliosis, angiomas...
AUTOPORTRAIT CONTRE NATURE
Michel FrançoisA character in a blue shirt is filmed with a fixed camera, in slow motion. We hear the echo of his footsteps. It’s the artist himself: this is an “auto portrait contra nature”. François lights up a cigarette while glass bottles start raining down around him: they shatter noisily, yet miraculously without ever hitting him...
EIGHT CHAPTERS IN FOUR MOVEMENTS
Teresa CosEight Chapters in Four Movements is a performance transposed into video. London Bridge is crossed every morning at the same time by thousands of commuters forming a river moving unidirectionally South to North. The scene is iconic and has been impressed many times in the news, films, documentaries, lullabies and poetry...
GLOBAL GROOVE
John J. Godfrey - Nam June Paik"This is a glimpse of the video landscape of tomorrow, when you will be able to switch to any TV station on the earth, and TV Guide will be as fat as the Manhattan telephone book." So begins Global Groove, a seminal tape in the history of video art...
_IMOVIE[2]_: IN-BETWEEN / SHIFTING
Els Opsomer‘_Imovie_[2] in-between/shifting’ is the second video Opsomer made with the amateur software package ‘iLife’, supplied with Apple computers. The video consists of photographies of cities in Brazil and Senegal, which Opsomer visited...
La banque, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
BANQUE
Angel Vergara’Banque’ is a montage of historical images of Belgian banking house and media excerpts of the Fortis-crisis that sweept across Belgium and the Netherlands in 2008 and 2009. Angel Vergara sketches historical and contemporary cross-references between the artistic and financial worlds in Belgium...
