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LE JOUR DE GLOIRE EST ARRIVÉ
Sven AugustijnenIn flashing black and white letters and backgrounds, the words from the sentence ‘Le jour de gloire est arrivé’ are flung upon the screen at various speeds. The viewer has to be careful not to be hypnotized by the message....
Page One, 2004, Bigas Luna © the artist
ENTRE NOUS QUELQUE CHOSE SE PASSE...
Ria PacquéeIn the work of Ria Pacquée the relative and the existential converge. She records her presence and that of others in this world, using photography and recently video, like traces of social archaeology. Pacquée begins with the premise that life doesn’t necessarily revolve around knowing and grasping, but that everything starts with breathing and a longing for otherness...
THE FINAL COUNTDOWN
Koen TheysThe video-installation ‘The Final Countdown’ contains more than 2000 clips found on YouTube, each showing an individual interpreting the celebrated opening tune of the song ‘The Final Countdown’, created by the rock band ‘Europe’...
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...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): PHOTO
Jacques LennepThe camera scans the image of a picture of a young man on which is written the word 'photo'....
DIANA
Koen TheysIn a home movie by Adolf Hitler, one can see Eva Brown playing naked in a lake near a waterfall. This video is inspired by those images. Diana, the Greek-Roman goddess of fertility and war, is also known as the goddess of the hunt. She runs naked through the dunes with her bow...
IMITATION DE JÉSUS-CHRIST, ETC.
Jacques LennepJacques Lennep creates a farcical imitation of Christ based on a bust of Jacques-Louis David by François Rude and the Ecce homo in the École de Saint-Sulpice....
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....
VLAANDEREN IN VOGELVLUCHT
Jef CornelisAn outlook on Flanders from the air. The familiar landscape is explored as it could never be explored before and this liberating experience makes it even more familiar in many ways. The spaces, plains and roads are taken up as part of a bigger unity – like on a roadmap, if it weren’t for the fact that the movement could make the exploration take place in a much more physical way...
