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Disorient, Laurent Van Lancker, 2010 © the artist & producer
DISORIENT
Laurent Van Lancker - Florence AignerA polyphony of tales by migrants who return to their homeland after having lived abroad. Whether they are Vietnamese, Indian, Syrian, Iranian, Chinese, Pakistani, academics, contract workers, political refugees, businessmen or students, they all are confronted with a second exile: coming home...
PASSAGE
Wim CatryssePassage is black and white video installation by Wim Catrysse from 1998. On the three screens we see the same tunnel-like space with a light at the end. Nothing is happening in the tunnel. On the second screen, suddenly a mouth appears at the end of the tunnel. The mouth blows into the tunnel, causing a low, monotonous sound. The same action is constantly repeated. The viewer has been misled...
YOKO OSHA CHAPTER III OR THE FIRST DAY IS THE DAY OF THE RIVER
Lazara Rosell AlbearThe third and final chapter of the Yoko Osha trilogy. “Making Saint” is an autoethnographic, sensorial and multilayered portrait of Santeria or Regla de Osha (The rules of the gods); the AfroCuban religion, forcefully imported from West Africa with the slaves trade and falsely syncretic for survival...
epic (malhame), Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2008 © the artists & producer
EPIC (MALHAME)
Julia Meltzer - David Thorne“2 years ago when I was a donkey they used to hit me so I didn’t fall into the hole that is at the edge of the valley. I used to always walk along the edge of the valley, reach the hole, move around it, and then continue walking. Of course, that is after I fell into it the first time...
ELECTION DEFEAT
Steve ReinkeTakes us back to our awkward high school years in Toledo, Ohio, 1968....
Karl Marx, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
KARL MARX
Angel VergaraHere, the central point is Karl Marx and his residence in Brussels between 1845 and 1848, interspersed with references to the ideas of Joseph Proudhon, who criticised Marx’ historical materialism and who died in Brussels in 1865. A historian speaks, as does Luc Tuymans, who elaborates on history in a television programme...
A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE
Jef Cornelis’a weekend with Monsieur Magritte’ was compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm. The first part – ’Saturday’ – drew from the films he shot in the 1956 -1960 period together with his friends from Brussels and from the recordings of his own works...
DANIEL BUREN
Jef CornelisGeorges Adé (1936-1992) interviews the French artist Daniel Buren (°1938) at the occasion of his solo exhibition – simply entitled Buren (11 May - 5 June, 1971) – in front of the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. As in his previous show with the same title (17 January - 6 February, 1969), Buren applied his renowned motif, namely the alternation of white and coloured 8...
AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB OR: LOOKING FOR REFLECTIONS IN THE TOXIC FIELD OF PLENTY
Vanja Smiljanic - Lukas Marxt“Among the palms, The Bomb” is a cinematic exploration that rounds up a seven-year-long research of the Salton Sea – the largest lake in California that is on the verge of ecological collapse, and the resilient community struggling to survive within this dystopian reality...
