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EMISSION NOCTURNE
Hänzel & GretzelOn the Vivaldi's Winter theme from the Four Seasons, a series of still images of a young man in bed while he's sleeping, reading, dreaming....
Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: MPIA’S STORY
Ólafur Ólafsson - Libia CastroMpia came to the Netherlands from the Congo. Against the backdrop of the Dutch landscape, his rhythmic, musical account is performed both facing away from and turned towards the camera. Addressing the audience directly, he asks questions without answers, forming a plea to Europe and Belgium in particular. Half-sung, half-spoken, repeated phrases and motifs are woven into a web of hope and despair....
IN BLOOD WE TRUST
Pablo Garcia Rubio - Alain De Clerck - Emmanuel DundicThe video ‘In blood we trust’ records a project that consists of a performance, a sound installation and a video presentation, presented during the Venice Biennial. The performance took place during the opening of the exhibition and consisted of a small airplane that could be controlled from a distance, throwing out dollars over the heads of the audience...
FABRICA/BRIGHTON DAY 6
Claude CattelainDoing a video each day. Day 6: pulling a heavy wooden piece on the shore until it sails off....
AFTER ALL
Charley CaseIn ‘(After all)’ the faces of several people are mounted one after the other, partly illuminated by flickering fires. An elderly man appears on the screen every now and then, holding a torch. The sound in the background reminds of dark shamanist throat-singing and the video as a whole gives the impression of an age-old ritual in a primeval forest....
DEAD SEA DRAWINGS (PART 01)
Edith DekyndtEdith Dekyndt’s project Lot’s Wife (2009), of which the film Dead Sea Drawings is a part, refers to the fate of Lot’s wife, Edith, as described in the book of Genesis. Ordered by an angel not to look back as they flee the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Edith fails to comply and takes one last look behind her, turning immediately into a pillar of salt...
MARCO POLO, UNE HISTOIRE DE BRODEURS
Ana TorfsThis video work is based on Marco Polo’s travelogue as dictated to Rustichello of Pisa, a writer of chivalric romances who shared Marco Polo’s prison cell in Genoa in 1298-1299. Torfs made it in her final year at the film and video department of Sint Lukas University College of Art and Design, Brussels, in 1990...
Vas-y mon Ange toi aussi tu en as une belle, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
VAS-Y MON ANGE TOI AUSSI TU EN AS UNE BELLE
Angel VergaraAs Straatman, Vergara was sitting in a tent on the street, right in front of the Gallery for Fine Arts in Brussels, where on that day an exhibition by Rombouts and Droste was opening, and later beside the Centre for Fine Arts. He carried painter’s equipment and spoke to spectators...
DANSE (BEAUBOURG EVENT 02)
Luc FerrariOne-sided release. "'Dance' was part of a sound/visual installation called 'Labyrinthe De Violence'...
DE MATERIE: ARCHITECTUUR EN BELGIË
Aglaia KonradAglaia Konrad makes photos and videos of globalised urban spaces. She is particularly interested in worldwide urban development and pays special attention to urban programmes that have been sidelined -- projects that were never fully accepted or completed. With De Materie (The Matter or The Material), Konrad focuses on Belgium, the country where she lives...
