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DIKSMUIDE, BELGIUM, TRENCH OF DEATH OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenWhen visiting the Trench of Death, a reminder of the trenches of the First World War, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...
LOOKING BACKWARD(S)
Ken KoblandA 10-part series with preface. Reflecting, ruminating, remembering, lamenting, drawing and living with the past and the present... Age, I suppose. LOOKING BACKWARD(s)... ‘Backward’ both ways, behind and awkwardly. Years of talking to myself, arguing, in an invisible courtroom. The ideas, fears, despairs that appear again and again...
THE PRINCESS PROJECT
Vincent DunoyerAfter his first solo work (Vanity, 1999), The Princess Project was originally intended to be a duet man-woman as a tribute to the classical pas de deux, for which Vincent Dunoyer reworked the traditional figures: pirouettes, portés,... . As a partner Dunoyer had chosen a female friend with an androgynous physique, about his own height and build...
DE MUSICORUM INFELICITATE
Walter Marchetti"As Walter Marchetti told to the producers of De Musicorum infelicitate, i.e., The Unhappiness of Music, this will probably be his last music work, but this is not the only point making this edition a very special one...
OUAF OUAF
Hänzel & GretzelAn energetic scratched music video made for the French combo Double Nelson. Welcome to a great nonsense party (dogs and ducks allowed)....
LA FARDE AUX CANARDS
Jacques Louis Nyst'La farde aux canards’ combines ducks with an array of functional objects (a foot bath, electrical cables, and so on), entities whose literal meanings have nothing whatsoever to do with one another, and which in that sense, also remain 'constant’ in substance. Nyst’s combinations, however, generate new and different meanings and in this case, the viewer’s hilarity....
NUIT DEBOUT (INSTALLATION)
Nelson Makengodarkness > in the depths of the working class neighbourhoods, in the absurdity of the rubble of endless nights,night > in this nocturnal shipwreck of the physical and symbolic power cut,resistance > abandoned to itself like a motherless chick, like a pot without a lid, like a house without a window, without a door, like a door without a lock, like a lock without a key.....
Gand Est, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
GAND EST
Angel VergaraVergara filmed this piece in looking eastward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition held in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...
1937
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
PI²
Charley CaseA couple performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Sonata for 4 Hands. Their hands caress each other without touching; the bodies converge in music....
