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LENS
Boris Van der AvoortPatiently compiled Super-8 images were edited according to the passionate pattern of ‘Music for 18 Musicians’ by Steve Reich. Starting from the image of an eye in close-up, ‘Lens’ presents a kaleidoscope and subjective representation of nature, the city and mankind...
Mercado mixte, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
MERCADO MIXTE
Angel VergaraVergara is standing on a plaza and taking a stroll through the market and the street. He is holding a brush, which he is using to trace what he sees on an imaginary canvas. One half of the image is the actual video recording, and the other half is an animated version. Vergara gives two fish vendors a brush as well, which they use to do as he does, to imitate him...
N12°13.062'/ W 001°32.619' EXTENDED
Vincent MeessenThe title of this video refers, through GPS coordinates, to a location in Africa, which is both specific and abstract. Two men wander through a deserted site in the middle of the desert. At first sight it’s an archaeological ruin. As the images reveal more of the environment, it becomes clear that the construction was built by the two of them, hewn from the surrounding stone...
ONCE UPON A TIME
Emilio López-MencheroWhen Gery van Tendeloo, the president of the association of collectors Liebaert Projects, proposed to give the city of Courtrai to Emilio López-Menchero, the artist immediately recalled that the city is known as the Texas of Flanders, but he also thought about Morris, the auteur of the comics series Lucky Luke...
EGO
Nicolas ProvostAfter a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole. The images originate from existing films such as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the soundtrack offers no redemption. A dystopian vision of the future?...
NAM JUNE PAIK
Stefaan DecostereNam June Paik was the instigator of the Fluxus movement, in Germany in the early sixties. In 1963 Paik first exhibited TV sets of which the screens showed distorted images. The TV screens reigned supreme. Paik moved to New York and was soon proclaimed the "George Washington of the video art"’...
A]S
Peter DownsbroughAs basic ingredients: five words and a typographical phenomenon or word-thing ‘(A]S itself)’; two black and white steady cam images, and in between them one in colour, all featuring the same fixed camera image shot somewhere along the railway, from the same point of view — but with a different train passing; or so it seems...
+18 BERLIN (VERSION COURTE)
Emilio López-MencheroBetween 1997 and 1998, Emilio López-Menchero lived in Berlin in the frame of an artist in residence grant at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In that period, Berlin was the biggest city under construction in the world: the goal was to be at the appointment with the year 2000 and to provide a new image of the city...
