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BEELDENDE KUNST IN BELGIË, 1986
Jef Cornelis - Freddy CoppensOriginally broadcast on March 16th 1986, the programme Beeldende kunst in België, 1986 (Visual Art in Belgium, 1986) is a recording of a panel discussion that took place in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp...
The Journey, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
THE JOURNEY
Mira Sanders’The Journey’ is a hand-held camera shot of a giant cardboard model, consisting of images that refer to travelling. While some parts of the model move while filming, the camera itself slowly recedes, finally resulting in a frontal view of the whole model...
GIRL WITH A FLY
Sarah VanagtGirl with a fly is an entirely silent video loop, which source of inspiration is a sound recording of a fly in a church, a sound file that Sarah Vanagt found on the Internet. In Girl with a fly, a young girl enters a church and opens a matchbox: a fly flies up from the little box into the image-loaded space. The girl then starts to record the sound of the fly...
IN THE ABSENCE OF HEROES (PART IV): WARFARE / A CASE FOR CONTEXT
Jayce SalloumIn the Absence of Heroes: Warfare/A Case for Context was part of a continuing series of works investigating social manifestations filling the gaps in our lives through media/corporate and government propagated images and idea(l)s. The videotapes present contextualized concepts/fragments of personal/emotional traumatic experiences and conflict...
LESSER APES
Emily Vey Duke - Cooper BattersbyLesser Apes tells the story of a love affair between a primatologist, Farrah and a female bonobo ape, Meema. Bonobos are the species with which humans share the most DNA, but unlike our species, they are matriarchal, live without conflict, and are unabashedly sexual...
SOLOS FOR OTHERS
Vincent DunoyerSolos for Others is a piece for two dancers and a pianist interpreting Beethoven’s thirty-three Diabelli Variations. A film by Michael Snow the choreographer happened to watch by chance freely inspires the work. The film consists of a sequence of seemingly unrelated photographs; on the soundtrack a hammer blow accompanies each cut...
X Ray Eyes, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
X RAY EYES
Peter FinnemoreFinnemore wears sunglasses, a camouflage battle dress, gloves and hat. His face is also covered with camouflage battle tissue and a scarf. Without unveiling his face, he slowly unfolds the tissue. Then laser-lights point his face....
L'arbre. Peinture en 1 acte et 7 tableaux, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)
L'ARBRE. PEINTURE EN 1 ACTE ET 7 TABLEAUX
Angel VergaraIn a few seconds Vergara filmed seven paintings of a tree, a technique he also applies in ’La belle Rosine. Peinture en 1 acte et 12 tableaux’ and ’Palais d’Egmont. Peinture en 1 acte et 12 tableaux’. The images in black gouache are schematic and rough, painted in coarse brush sweeps...
MARC
Peter FolThis video manifesto by Peter Fol shows a masked young man from the Brussels conurbation. He tells about himself, and about the way he sees things in daily live. The person reflects openly on truth and logic, on intelligence and creativity, or on the love for one’s neighbor....
ARGOS!OOGGAAHHGGRRAAHHOOHSSS!
Charlemagne PalestineSince the 1970s composer, performer and visual artist Charlemagne Palestine has become known for his experimental, ritualistic music and for challenging Western audiences’ expectations of what is ‘beautiful’ and meaningful in music...
