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A DAY FOR CAKE AND ACCIDENTS
Steve Reinke - Jessie MottReinke continues to explore the quirky possibilities of the animation film, collaborating once again with Jessie Mott, who delivers her idiosyncratic drawings, paintings and collages, plus also wrote the accompanying texts. References to cartoons and comics are once more evident, though Reinke stays somewhat of a league of its own...
JOUR DE FÊTE
Bernard GigounonIn this video Gigounon once again ventures on the broad footpath between reality and imagination. Science-fiction worlds are all around us, the only thing we have to do is allow our imagination to run freely. Gigounon backs us up with the assistance of a couple of simple video effects, so we can let go of the trivialities of reality, even for an instant...
ONCE UPON A TIME
Emilio López-MencheroWhen Gery van Tendeloo, the president of the association of collectors Liebaert Projects, proposed to give the city of Courtrai to Emilio López-Menchero, the artist immediately recalled that the city is known as the Texas of Flanders, but he also thought about Morris, the auteur of the comics series Lucky Luke...
+18 BERLIN (VERSION LONGUE)
Emilio López-MencheroBetween 1997 and 1998, Emilio López-Menchero lived in Berlin in the frame of an artist in residence grant at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In that period, Berlin was the biggest city under construction in the world: the goal was to be at the appointment with the year 2000 and to provide a new image of the city...
ALL
Shelly SilverPart of the ongoing series Fragments, ALL is a 15 seconds clip. The work alternates static shots of home furnitures with details from drawings of considerable buildings. The contrast between the steel and glass surfaces of the sketches and the empty, but living, interior is furthermore underlined by the interchanged sound of the crowd and the silence in the apartment....
Madame going to a dogshow, Ria Pacquée, 1988. Courtesy the Artist
MADAME GOING TO A DOG SHOW
Ria PacquéeDuring the second half of the eighthies Pacquée created her ’Madame’- works, in which she takes on the character of a lonely middle-aged lady. In this case the camera records Madame’s presence at a dog show. Madame walks around the hall where the event’s taking place. She looks at pictures of different breeds of dogs and takes some brochures...
THE SPINNING WHEEL
Harald Thys - Jos De GruyterHarald Thys and Jos de Gruyter make videos in their own typical style. Man is hardly a pawn in a game of chess, a tragicomic puppet functioning in a system which surpasses him. The style is minimalist, the characters are determined by the structure and they are limited in space, language and movement...
NEARLY PRESENT, JUST PAST
Cel Crabeels"If I were young, I would destroy a Dan Graham piece, I would smash the goddamn Dan Graham piece." (Dan Graham in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2001) This subjective-documentary video is part of a project on the violent and thorough destruction of a pavilion by the American artist Dan Graham...
UN DIMANCHE APRÈS-MIDI À 6H DU SOIR
Jacques Louis NystIn both 'La clé du paysage’ and ’Un dimanche après-midi à 6h du soir’ the spectator is in the position of the voyeur, spying Danièle Nyst through a window. In 'La clé du paysage’, Danièle Nyst is sitting in the garden, flipping through a magazine. Her image is cut up by the window frame...
