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SUDEUROPA
Raphaël Cuomo - Maria IorioSudeuropa examines the ways in which European and Italian immigration policies materialise on location by reconfiguring the space, time and the daily life of the Italian island Lampedusa...
TOPIC II
Pascal BaesThe French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...
GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA
Jan VrommanIn this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...
Media Burn, Ant Farm, 1975-2003. Courtesy Electronic Art Intermix (EAI), New York
MEDIA BURN
Ant FarmIn Media Burn, the multidisciplinary collective Ant Farm completely unmasks the power and effects of the media. In order to free America from its television addiction, as the “artist president” announced in the videos, a performance is organised for Independence Day 1975: Ant Farm staged the collision of a car and a stack of televisions...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 36. REQUEST
Steve ReinkeHi! I’m doing a video. I was wondering if you would take your clothes off for the video....
MUSÉE DE L'HOMME (POST-PRODUCTIONS)
Jacques LennepIn the seventies Jacques Lennep worked on his ‘Musée de l’homme’, a series of exhibitions, performances and videos in which eight figures were shown over the course of time in an artistic context, according to a wayward conception of sociological art...
FIREWORKS
Messieurs DelmotteIn a field, Delmotte lights two fireworks attached to sticks. He holds the sticks in his hands while the fireworks go off and makes a few spins. Offscreen people shout and whistle. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
QUE SERÁ SERÁ: CARMEN 84
Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La CasinièreA young, determined and beautiful girl decides to leave her mighty protector forever. The woman in the video is laying in front of images of hotel rooms pasted on the background. She’s singing the tale of this modern Carmen....
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 3. WANNEER HET KUNSTBEZIT EEN PRESTIGEZAAK IS
Jef CornelisPart of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?", ’When art collection is not a matter of prestige’ is an interview with Frans Baudouin, the curator of the Rubens museum in Antwerp, on the occasion of the acquisition of a high-priced self-portrait by Rubens...
