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CUT

Michel Lorand
’Cut’ takes us along a slow, night time journey through the outskirts of a city, over a heavily travelled highway network. Only at the end do we get a fleeting glimpse of a man, lonely, but walking determinedly along the side of the road...

LIQUID STATES

Edith Dekyndt
For this year-long project, Edith Dekyndt regularly recorded the meteorology webcam images from coastlines in different corners of the globe, so that she could visit these landscapes without the sun ever setting. Seven monitors each broadcast the views of a single place, positioned one after the next in chronological order...

FOR NOW

Herman Asselberghs
In times of great turmoil, time comes to a standstill. The central two movements in For Now are horizontal panoramas shots and firm, vertical edits. They show shifts of place without the journey. Nature, the wind, movement that occurs all on its own: this would seem to be the film’s real subject matter. The film unfolds in waves...

VOAEX

Wolf Vostell
In the magical surroundings of the museum, a former launder- ette has been recycled for the video 'VOAEX'. This video features a series of concrete sculptures in front of the panorama and the gardens of the Museo Vostell, with huge rocks that are integrated in the work. (Berta Sichel)...
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THE INTRUDER

Vincent Meessen
In this video bearing the programmatic title ‘The Intruder’, we see the artist—clad head to toe in an outfit fashioned of white cotton blossoms—strolling along the bustling streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The camera, which does not long remain undetected (and unexposed), accompanies the performer while simultaneously recording the reactions of the observers...
Ringleaders, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist Ringleaders, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

RINGLEADERS

Peter Finnemore
Finnemore's crew of kids and other family members have fun by doing ring a Ring-o'Roses....

SET [ING]

Peter Downsbrough
In Set [ing] the camera is situated in a closed, empty meeting room in an office building in the Paris business centre of La Défense...
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KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 5. WANNEER DE MEESTER ZEGT WAT KUNST IS

Jef Cornelis
Part of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?”, ’When the master says what art is’ shows images of a drawing-lesson in a secondary school, where ‘creativity’ and ‘talent’ are measured and adjusted making use of social norms and subjective values...

DANIEL BUREN (PALAIS ROYAL)

Jef Cornelis
For the installation Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Levels, 1985-1986), Daniel Buren (°1938) placed a grid of 260 black and white striped cylinders of different heights in the elegant courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris...