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Hans Op de BeeckA moving camera takes us along an endless row of cash registers in a desolate supermarket. The cashiers are waiting behind their empty desks and it’s quiet as a mouse… The contrast between the inert location on the one side, chaotic and lively in normal circumstances, and the moving camera on the other, makes this absurd sequence into a kind of dream image...
ANDRÉ ANDÉR
Karen VanderborghtPortrait of the town fool and the nutty film student behind the camera. Does the person in front of the camera becomes an ‘object’ as soon as he or she is transformed into an ‘image’? This work was the final dissertation of Vanderborght....
CITTADELLARTE, 2009, Fabio Wuytack © the artist & producers
CITTADELLARTE
Fabio WuytackMichelangelo Pistoletto, painter and art theorist, founded an art city called CITTADELLARTE in an abandoned textile factory near Biella, Italy in 1996. It was part of his programme ’Progetto Arte’, which aimed to bring together and integrate all aspects of human life and experience – the artistic and creative combined with the social and economic...
Jokes, 2000 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)
MEETING POINT OVER THE EDGES
Angel Vergara’Meeting Point over the Edges’ consists of two parts: ’Jokes’ and ’Straatman Army’. During ’Over the Edges’ In 2000 Vergara participated in ’Over the Edges’, a group exhibition in Ghent’s inner city. Vergara used equipment from the Belgian army for his project...
IDEAS OF ORDER IN CINQUE TERRE
Ken Kobland“In November of 2004 I was invited to spend a couple of weeks in Cinque Terre, (a string of towns along Italy’s northern Mediterranean coast). The area is listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its exquisite shoreline and the hill towns clustered on its rocky promontories...
WHERE WAS I NOW?
Ken KoblandA room in Brooklyn, New York, perhaps the room of the artist itself? The space reminds us somewhat of Hoppers famous interior paintings. When the clock is about to strike midnight, images start to appear on the walls of the appartement. Marlene Dietrich on the cover of Life Magazine, Superman, Nikita Kruschev, Laurel and Hardy...
Gand Ouest, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
GAND OUEST
Angel VergaraVergara filmed this piece in looking westward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition held in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...
Beirut 1963 / Beyrouth 1963, Mekhitar Garabedian, 2003 © the artist & producer
BEIRUT 1963 / BEYROUTH 1963
Mekhitar Garabedian’Beirut 1936’ shows a photograph of a family group – the artist’s family - sitting on a sofa in a living room. The soundtrack consists of the Garabedian family singing ’Happy Birthday’ in a sequence of languages – Armenian, Arabic, French, Dutch and English...
De Kus #3 (Kristalkus), Frank Theys, 1997. Courtesy the Artist
DE KUS #3 (KRISTALKUS)
Frank TheysThe third instalment of Frank Theys’ series 'The Kiss'. In this silent short film that is part of an installation to be played in a loop, we see a couple intensively French kissing. Using the medium of the MRI scan, the computer translates this image into a 3D-object, spinning around itself endlessly....
FUJI SAN
Bernard GigounonThe animation in this video was put together with images of Mount Fuji found on the internet. Mount Fuji is the largest symmetrical object on the planet; images taken from any side can be perfectly superposed. This video rules negates the contemplative aspect in these pictures, as the Fuji monument becomes mobile and pivots. ...
