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COLOR WALKS
Ria PacquéeIn recent years, Ria Pacquée has focused in her work on colour in a postcolonial world. She makes us ask: “What is color?” Ria Pacquée does not talk color but lives it, in her travels, her imagination, and in her art. She takes us on color walks, like William Burroughs while staying in the Beat Hotel in Paris in the early 1960s...
KINGELEZ: KINSHASA, UNE VILLE REPENSÉE
Dirk DumonKINGELEZ: Kinshasa, a city rethought… Kingelez (1948) is an unclassified Congolese artist. The setting of his artistic development is Kinshasa, a chaotic and obsolete metropolis. Kingelez gained international recognition with his large scale-models, which are all utopian cities in their own respect...
HEIR TO THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL
Wendy MorrisA great number of my forebears fled or emigrated to South Africa due to their religious convictions. French and Flemish Huguenots in the 17th century, English Protestant missionaries and clergy in the 19th century. Though I am atheist-agnostic-apostate i must trace my South Africanism to the religious convictions of my ancestors. I like church spaces and architecture...
OUR CITY
Maria TarantinoThis is Brussels, the capital of Europe, a city of concrete cages wrapped in glass, planned by businessmen and politicians, set in motion by construction workers, and animated by office people. But there, in the narrow spaces just beyond the reach of bureaucracy, lies the Brussels that still breathes...
LE BARBIER DE TUNIS
Bernard MulliezConceived as a traveller’s diary, the video was shot in March 2012, a year after the fall of Ben Ali. The Tunisians were exploring the exercise of democracy and freedom of expression so long confiscated by the past regimes...
_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...
DE KUS #1
Frank TheysThe image consists of successive sections (magnetic resonance scans) of a couple that is French kissing. We can see the kiss cut up in a movement from one ear to the other. A video beam projects the video image on a polyester plate that is hanging down in the middle of the room. The audience can walk around the projection so that the image itself can be seen as a section as well...
IJSBREKER 03: DWARS-FLUITEND
Jef Cornelis - Mark De Geest - Jackie Claeys - Freddy CoppensThis time the programme ’Ijsbreker’ turns its attention to the flute and to diverse opinions on this instrument. The occasion for it is a study week for flutists in a cultural centre in Amsterdam, where a number of soloists, composers and teachers get to speak...
A PECULIAR FAMILY ALBUM
Amina Menia“From 1953 to 1957, the Deputy-Mayor of Algiers Jacques Chevallier appointed Fernand Pouillon to undertake building projects: social housing for the benefit of poor Algerians. With this ambitious programme, Jacques Chevallier was planning to reduce the blatant inequalities between Europeans and the indigenous population...








