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Babel (Lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique), 1991, Boris Lehman © the artist
BABEL (LETTRE À MES AMIS RESTÉS EN BELGIQUE)
Boris Lehman"’My life has become the script of a film that has become my life’...
LILIANE VERTESSEN
Jef Cornelis“Liliane Vertessen wants to stay young forever. And she wants to be world famous,” Régine Clauwaert claims in this edition of Kunst-Zaken, the art magazine of the Belgian public broadcaster BRT in the 1980s. Cornelis filmed Vertessen at her home in Hasselt. He edited this short portrait to the music of Tim Buckley’s Sweet Surrender, raw blues the artist chose herself...
PAULA WINK
Frédéric GaillardWith ‘Playground love’ by the band Air playing in the background, Gaillard dances with his camera in slow motion in front of a large canvas, almost like a painting at first sight, with the image of a young girl. Depending on the camera movements the girl opens or shuts one of her eyes, making it seem as if she is blinking – just like a hologram....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - ART ELECTRONIQUE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanA weird and futuristicly dressed couple shows the viewer how to paint with videos. They display different techniques. This video by Michel Bonnemaison and Joëlle de La Casinière plays with the idea that video may have the same status as painting....
Blue, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist
BLUE
Ria PacquéeFrom her house, Ria Pacquée walks to the nearby art centre Extra City in Antwerp. She carries a long wooden lath that covers a large part of her face. While the setting might make one think of the typical comedy ladder drill, Pacquée performs her movements with precision and a deadpan seriousness....
THE CHAIR
Grace SchwindtThe artist interviews her grandmother about her experience of he occupation of Berlin in 1945....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 07. SPECULATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY
Steve ReinkeIt wasn’t very long ago that the imagination could make its way into the world as an autonomous agent of seemingly repressed desires. I want to return to that time....
VOM GOLDABFISCHER
Anton Bruhin"Presents for the first time on CD the classic experimental folk recordings with the same title first issued on LP in 1969...
OEDIPUS REX
Claudio PazienzaConceived to be projected onto a 12m x 3,80m screen, these images accompany the performance of the opera-oratorio by Stravinsky. The different sequences evoke Belgium as a country with its back against the wall, keeping up a placid and almost resigned attitude nevertheless. Just like Thebes, the city which was ravished by the plague....
