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21 JULI
Axel ClaesOld Super8 images of the Belgian National Holiday celebrations in Brussels were edited by Axel Claes into a short snapshot. The short, volatile fragments give an impression of an occupied city, just when the parade, headed by king Baudouin/ Boudewijn, runs over the inner city, raising looks of awe and amazement with its military display...
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Pieter GeenenOn the walls of the local Belgian Club in Delhi, Ontario (Canada) hangs a banal painting portraying Saint Catherine's Square, a square in the heart of the Belgian capital Brussels. Depicting this specific place the painting evokes the memory connected to it for the many Belgian immigrants in this particular Canadian region, which helps defining and enhancing the community's identity...
FLUSHED-AT-ONCE
Ken KoblandA short remembrance…a project created for an exhibition in commemoration of the events of Sept. 11. (https://www.kenkoblandfilms.com)...
HALF-WEG
Jan De KegelThe Halfweg (‘Halfway’) is a hidden side street in Ghent, where Jan de Kegel himself shares a home with his 86-year-old grandmother. This seemingly dead-end street, without a final destination, serves as a guideline and a background for a Lynchian story about silence, confusion and astonishment. In his solitude an old man loses his grip on reality after the decease of his wife...
THE NEED TO TAKE BACK WHAT YOU'VE JUST GIVEN (PIGEONS 1)
Messieurs DelmotteIn a public place, Messieurs Delmotte lures pigeons with breadcrumbs. All of a sudden, like a madman he attacks the flock and reappropriates the food. This work is part of the series What's Done, Evil's Done / Ce Qui est Fait, le Mal est Fait...
VENTRILOQUIST BIRD
Messieurs DelmotteA short video-performance in which Messieurs Delmotte, standing in a park, lips the sound of a bird....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 77. AMOEBA
Steve ReinkeThis amoeba describes a libido which is not solely my libido, but a force, an external force. For the amoeba, movement is not movement, but simply a way of being because it does not move though space but simply is. The concept of space is obliterated by the amoeba’s virtual omnipotence. Also, it is sexless and through its sexlessness, immortal. It survives every division...
Baile, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
BAILE
Angel VergaraWith a pencil, Vergara traces movements during an outdoors gala, on a plaza in Castelló....
SPEECH BUBBLE
Adam LeechThe main concerns of Adam Leech’s work are the semantics of voice versus speech and the political engineering of public space and community. Speech Bubble began as an investigation into the bankruptcy of the Belgian high-tech speech recognition company, Lernout & Hauspie...
Meschak, Laone et Michel, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
MESCHAK, LAONE ET MICHEL
Angel VergaraMeschak Gaba responds negatively when asked whether art, freedom and artists are synonyms, because one does not have to be an artist in order to be free. He confirms that he is an artist, "because I am no artist", followed by a laugh. Laone answers, "yes and no". Artists are free to say and abstain from what they want...
