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LOST NATION, JANUARY 1999
Johan GrimonprezIn January 1999, at the height of the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage asked me if’d be in for a trip to Lost Nation. They explained this was part of a project called LOST NATION they were setting up in Brussels: a place slash library slash installation about vanished nations such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, USSR, and Zaire...
IJSBREKER 04: KUNST TE KOOP
Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Anton Stevens - Jackie ClaeysThe television programme ‘Ijsbreker’ always undertakes an expedition into the most dangerous areas of the cultural icy mountain ranges, reeling about this time between the peaks of visual art and the hidden iceberg of art trade, the gallery circuit, art criticism and museum policy...
THE ASCENT OF MAN. PARTS I, II & III
Jayce Salloum..The Ascent of Man.. Parts I, II, & III is a body of work which looks at the way reproductions/ representations are used to promote, influence and direct a way of life. Perceptual process is examined and guided through common gesture and implication of context to present a view of scientific/corporate materialistic domination of humanistic concerns...
ARISE! WALK DOG EAT DONUT
Ken Kobland"Very simply the piece is about going on... going on in the face of It. And about winding up where one began. We begin with a sort of reminiscence, projecting film footage from twenty years ago. We end by revisiting the landscape of that earlier footage, suggesting, I suppose, that over the years we often don’t come very far from where we begin...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN
Jef CornelisIn this short documentary film, Georges Adé (1936-1992), is sitting in the Antwerp municipal library, presents the book Culture is our business (1970) by the Canadian philosopher and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980). Adé shows reproductions of advertisements from the book and reads extracts from it...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 15. WALKING THE DOG
Steve ReinkeSometimes I think I am like Frank Sinatra. Then I try to think of specific examples of similarity, actual points where our beings might overlap, and of course can think of none....
HISTOIRE D'UN CORPS NÉ EN 1941
Jacques LennepAn enumeration of the misfortunes of Lennep’s body, followed by the removal of a birthmark on the artist’s breast....
IJSBREKER 09: WOENSDAGAVONDKOORTS: LET'S DANCE
Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel SchoetensAn edition of ’Ijsbreker’ on rolling dancing movements, taking a look at the widest range of forms, including cha cha cha, quickstep, tap dancing and the Chinese art of movement TaiChi Tao...
