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RHYME 'EM TO DEATH
Elizabeth LeCompte - The Wooster Group‘Rhyme ‘Em to Death’ reconstructs the trial from Victor Hugo’s ‘Hunchback of The Notre Dame’ from a new perspective, that of a minor character – the goat. The trial of the goat, a postscript in the Hugo novel, has been extended and enlivened with the actual transcripts of 15th-century trials in which animals were persecuted as witches...
UNDO / REDO VOL. 2
Messieurs DelmotteSecond part of a series of sequences that are the result of a meeting between Messieurs Delmotte and artists with a mental disability. It leads to unexpected situations and poetic performances. Messieurs Delmotte made this performance and video project during an artistic residency at CEC La Hesse (Vielsalm in Belgium)...
THING
Anouk De ClercqAn architect talks about the city he has built. Gradually we realise that the city is imaginary. His account is an attempt to give his ideas a fixed shape. This, in a nutshell, is the story of Thing...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 92. NOTES ON THE UNCANNY
Steve ReinkeThis place is familiar. I have been here before....
LE BUFFET AUX TROIS COULEURS
Jacques LennepOne after the other, Lennep eats a plate of sausages, a plate of goat’s cheese and a piece of cake. Each time he wears a mask suitable for the “meal”....
Het Kabinet, Frank Theys, 2000. Courtesy the Artist
HET KABINET
Frank TheysOne of the applications which nanotechnology may be in a position to offer in the future is the possibility of redesigning one’s surroundings based on the issue at hand. You formulate your own design on a computer, pass it onto a couple of nano-robots, and they do the work for you. Based on this idea, some ideas for a consultation room are proposed....
A BOY NEEDS A FRIEND
Steve ReinkeSteve Reinke ostensibly turns to the subjects of friendship and intimacy in "A Boy Needs A Friend", in particular investigating the notion of queer Nietzschean friendship...
La revolution surrealiste tire dans le dos, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA RÉVOLUTION SURRÉALISTE TIRE DANS LE DOS
Angel VergaraAt the opening of Philippe Van Snick’s exhibition in the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Vergara was sitting on a white canvas. ’La Révolution Surréaliste’ was wedged under one of the back legs of his chair, Vergara was leaning forward with the white canvas pulled over him. Other books were lying at his feet....
John Thompson, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
JOHN THOMPSON
Angel VergaraThe British art critic Jon Thompson offers a one-liner: "Most artists can’t deal with very small amount of freedom that they have, otherwise they’d make better art."...
DANIEL BUREN (PALAIS ROYAL)
Jef CornelisFor the installation Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Levels, 1985-1986), Daniel Buren (°1938) placed a grid of 260 black and white striped cylinders of different heights in the elegant courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris...
