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Le mecanisme secret qui guide le créateur dans son aventure périlleuse, 2006, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LE MÉCANISME SECRET QUI GUIDE LE CRÉATEUR DANS SON AVENTURE PÉRILLEUSE
Angel VergaraWhile we are hearing Pablo Picasso and Henri-Georges Clouzot in his film Le mystère de Picasso – the title paraphrases his voice-over – Vergara is, as is alter ego Straatman, applying similar strategies, like in Peinture radiophoniqe numéro 1 of 2005: the images have been bleached by means of a digital effect, and while drawing, Straatman is inspired by listening to a me...
THE LADDER 2 (ALONE)
Messieurs DelmotteLike in a scene out of a surrealist painting, a lonely ladder is standing in a park and seems to be reaching for the sky. But this illusion is shattered when the ladder drops to the ground. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
MONU-MENTAL
Krassimir TerzievAn observation of public space that is popular among youth communities in Sofia (the park in front of the Monument of the Soviet army). A place to spare time in chatting, drinking, smoking, practicing urban sports or just hanging around...
PARKING 2004
Aurore Dal MasAurore Dal Mas is fascinated with the vocabulary that is used in popular music, as a peculiar reflection by and on mankind. Before this she made ‘Show Room’, a pseudo-autobiographical video clip based on a song by Julio Iglesias. The sweet, sensuous words take on a preposterous and cynical undertone in the mouth of a postiche chansonnier...
DE KUS #4
Frank TheysThe Visible Human Project was started in the nineties by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) when digital imaging of the human body became possible in a technical sense. It was the complete anatomical database of a male cadaver that first appeared on the Web, consisting of cross-sectional slices of the body at one millimetre intervals. Shortly after a female version was published...
MORE FROM THE JUDSON YEARS (EARLY 60S) INSTRUMENTAL-VOCAL WORKS VOL. 2
Philip CornerExcerpts from the liner notes of Volume Two, written by Philip Corner: ’Everything Max Has’ (1964), Max Neuhaus solo, recorded at the ONCE Festival, 1965. ’A performance of Max’s taking down all of his stuff; tons of equipment filling entire stages’. ’Big Trombone’ (1963), Jim Fulkerson improvisation over tape collage...
AS] IN
Peter DownsbroughThe interior of an empty office building in Zaventem’s Corporate Village, next to Brussels Airport. Human presence is only to be found outside, through the windows, in the passing cars or nearby office buildings...
TENANT
Grace SchwindtIn Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...
2. LE GÉNÉRATEUR D’ONDES ÉLECTRO-PSYCHIQUES
Lucile DesamoryWitold works in a bank during the day but at night, he is building an electro-psychic waves generator. When he tests it, he makes contact with the cannibal nurse and with aliens. This will change his life....
