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Koen Theys - Frank TheysThe German 19th century composer Richard Wagner wrote the operas Ring des Nibelungen and Parcifal in order to shape his vision on the relationships in society. Koen and Frank Theys have treated Wagner’s Ring with an immoral curiosity and have enriched it with personal and contemporary themes...
Jean Spinette, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
JEAN SPINETTE
Angel VergaraJean Spinette is asked about the meaning of artistic freedom in a municipality like Saint-Gilles. At the time of filming, he was the Department of Culture’s representative in the mayor’s office (by 2010 he has become the chairman of the local OCMW) and he is filmed in the Pierre Paulus park....
COUNTERPOINT 1, PART 1: INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNT
Grace SchwindtThis is a video documentation of the multimedia performance Counterpoint 1, part 1: Individual accounts. The Institute of Contemporary Arts in London commissioned this work and it was initially performormed there in June 2010 as part of Artists' Film Club curated by Richard Birkett...
FIVE YEARS IN THE MAKING
Els DietvorstA documentary film about Dietvorst's project 'The return of the swallows', which started in 1999 in the Anneessens district, close to the South station of Brussels. Fascinated by this 'transit' neighbourhood and the local population, the artist started a new project...
THE BISHOP & THE DOCTOR
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeThe Bishop & The Doctor is a splitscreen projection of two synchronously presented events both taking place in the Asmat in the Indonesian province of Papua, former Dutch New Guinea, concerning the activities of two typical exponents of the White Man’s Burden. In the right part a German Doctor operates on a Papua in what almost looks like a home, in order to treat a lump in his face...
ELEVAGE DE POUSSIÈRE / DUST BREEDING
Sarah VanagtIn this work, Sarah Vanagt turns her attention to an important chapter in recent European history: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague...
MARCEL BROODTHAERS: MUSÉE D’ART DU XVIIE SIÈCLE
Jef CornelisViews of the 17th century ’Eagles Department’ in Antwerp: façade, wooden crates, postcards of 17th-century works on the walls and a small garden. Marcel Broodthaers is whitewashing the inscription ’Département des Aigles’ written on the fence in the garden...
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...
