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Peter DownsbroughWith his videos Downsbrough creates natural portraits of urban environments. Everyday surroundings are observed, dissected and transformed into architectural illustrations, with a proper sense of order and chaos. In long, steady shots and travellings space is reduced and abstracted into minimalist constructions, simultaneously they assume identifiability...
THE CRY
Ria PacquéeIn various outdoor locations, a cry is performed. As the locations differ – under trees, in a rough wooden structure, in a field – the distance of the performer from the camera also differs, altering the volume and proximity of the sound. The performer also varies the vocal qualities of the cry, including its length, tone, pitch and volume...
Le territoire, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LE TERRITOIRE
Angel VergaraImages of lions in the wild are combined with media images of Dutch- and French-speaking politicians, journalists and media personalities. On the soundtrack lions roaring can be heard sporadically while the artist traces the movie images with gestures as though painting...
A LA RENCONTRE DE MARCEL HANOUN
Bert BeyensThe French filmmaker Marcel Hanoun during the filming of "Loin-près de l'amour, loin-près de la mort" (1993). The subject of that film was "les amants de Sarajevo", the young couple of mixed etnic background shot by a sniper in that city. Their corpses were left dead for a week on a bridge....
THE RABBIT
Messieurs DelmotteIn this early video piece, Messieurs Delmotte seems to find himself in the setting of a magician: a table with a red cloth on which a cute little bunny is waiting. However, after the music started playing, some rather surprising action is going on between the artist-performer and the rabbit. Part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....
DREAMACHINE
Edith DekyndtBrion Gysin and Ian Sommerville conceived the Dreamachine at the beginning of the 60’s. It is the first object in history conceived to be viewed with closed eyes. The Dreamachine makes it possible to go down in Alpha brain waves, while remaining awake...
SAY HELLO TO PEACE AND TRANQUILITY
Martin Wittwer - Dagmar KellerIn ‘Say Hello to Peace and Tranquility’, we find ourselves in a projected world of deserted suburbia. Terrace town homes slowly slide by, offering an endless panorama of wide sidewalks, tidy front gardens, latched facades and gabled houses. The absence of people appears completely normal; even the little lap dog that motionlessly slides into view does not seem that out of place...
ELECTION DEFEAT
Steve ReinkeTakes us back to our awkward high school years in Toledo, Ohio, 1968....
