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La chasse, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA CHASSE
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...
PARKING 2004
Aurore Dal MasAurore Dal Mas is fascinated with the vocabulary that is used in popular music, as a peculiar reflection by and on mankind. Before this she made ‘Show Room’, a pseudo-autobiographical video clip based on a song by Julio Iglesias. The sweet, sensuous words take on a preposterous and cynical undertone in the mouth of a postiche chansonnier...
appendix ii: clouds, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2001 © the artist & producer
APPENDIX II: CLOUDS
Jayce Salloumappendix ii: clouds is a part of the ongoing multi-channel video installation untitled which, since 1999, Jayce Salloum elaborates focusing on notions such as borders, nationalisms, movements and subjectivity. This 15-minutes video shows an inventory of images of clouds, mostly recorded from an airplane, and is meant to be shown on monitor only in exhibition context....
LIBERATION RADIO
Esther JohnsonThis is Liberation Radio. In 1968, a group of American military deserters went to the North Vietnamese mission in Stockholm with one object in mind – to join the army they had been drafted to fight. Instead, they were recruited for the propaganda war – and use magnetic tape, pop music and political rhetoric to persuade other American servicemen to desert...
VISION RYTHMÉE
André ColinetIn February 1987 in Brussels, Raoul RUIZ shot his film "Le professeur Taranne", based on the play by Arthur Adamov. Three years later, with the images of a news report, André Colinet made this film which provides a very particular view of the shooting....
Caregivers, 2008, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
CAREGIVERS
Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson'Caregivers' presents the Ukrainian women who have chosen voluntary exile to work as caregivers for the elderly in Italy, where they earn enough to provide financial support to their families back home in Ukraine. Living on the margins, they are solitary and elusive figures whose roles are defined but whose individual identities are not being recognized by the host country...
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...
SMELL THE FLOWERS WHILE YOU CAN
Johan GrimonprezJohan Grimonprez transposes an extract from Meg Stuart’s compelling choreography ‘No Longer Ready-Made’ to the anonymous waiting room of a railway station. This colourless space along with nameless travellers provides the excellent setting for Stuart’s hectic and intense convulsions...
MONTEVIDEO
Jef CornelisMontevideo (Uruguay), 1.300.000 inhabitants, borders on the same river (La Plata) as Buenos Aires. At the end of the 19th century an art scene bloomed here, which stands out favourably against the rest of the continent...
