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Justice paysage, 2008, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
JUSTICE DANS LE PAYSAGE
Angel VergaraWith a brush, Vergara follows the outlines of the images of a video-recording of the Antwerp Courthouse, filmed from a field situated on the south side of the building. The Courthouse was one of the most politically charged construction projects in the first decade of twenty-first century Belgium....
BEGINNINGS
Roy VillevoyeIn his work Roy Villevoye (1960) explores issues around anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and the heritage of colonialism. Even though his videos, often realized in collaboration with Jan Dietvorst, are frequently considered documentaries, he distances himself explicitly from the genre...
GLASS AND HONEY
Grace Schwindt'Glass and Honey' deals with commodification of social relations and alienation in capitalist society. The character ‘Artist” speaks a text into a microphone and then writes it on the back wall. She moves building blocks that are positioned against the back wall and places them around the other character „50F“...
THE BASTARDSTOWN BLOGGER
Orla BarryBastardstown, located in ‘sunny’ southeast Ireland, County Wexford (N 52° 11’ 15’’ W 6° 32 36”) is small town, or village, or rather townland. Although it actually exists, it’s also a fictive notion, a concept that figures in the work of Orla Barry, here as well as in previous work (Stoney Scrabble at Bastardstown, 2000-2006 and Foundlings, 2000)...
EXTENDED PRESENCES
Margaux Dauby"Looking at the tree line, a question creeps into my mind and, simultaneously, I have a desire what if nothing existed?" (M. G. Llansol) Extended Presences follows several women in their seasonal work as fire watchers in Portugal. The film comes close to their breathing, to the passing of time and to solitude, from within....
ABOUT POP-MUSIC BY ROBERT A. FISCHER
André ColinetEpilogue, and complementary sequel to the film ‘Larguez les Amarres – Drop the Moorings’. A new, independent chapter of the film poem by Robert Fischer and Henri Storck, where art, the individual and society all play a major role...
Shit Stirrer, Peter Finnemore, 2004. Courtesy the Artist
SHIT STIRRER
Peter FinnemoreA shit stirrer is trouble-maker, or someone who spreads rumours and manipulates people for no apparent reason at all: Finnemore takes it literately and drives a tractor in the country side in order to dispense an organic and harmless fertilizer....
CARLO VAN NESTE – VIOOLVIRTUOOS
Jef CornelisCarlo van Neste, Belgian virtuoso and chamber musician born in 1914, is acclaimed both nationally and internationally. He teaches at the conservatories of Brussels and Utrecht, where he has prepared countless young violinists for the international stage...
CONTAINER 09: OVER ROES
Jef CornelisA fragment from Aldoux Huxley‘s ’The Doors of Perception’ is the starting-point for a reflection on intoxication. Intoxication might be perceived as one of the universal longings of mankind. The Romantic tradition of Baudelaire talks of “artificial paradises”, but outside the Western society intoxication has a much more ambivalent function than escapism alone...
