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Die Macht der Gefühle, Alexander Kluge, 1984. copyright
DIE MACHT DER GEFÜHLE
Alexander KlugeAn organic and densely layered meditation on the intangible, irrational mechanism of human emotion. Die Macht der Gefühle (The Power of Emotion) explores how chance and destiny determine our emotions and explains that emotion isn't to be confused with sentimentality. Emotion is ancient and more powerful than any art form...
NON-LIEUX, PART I
Pascal BaesAn attempt to exorcise the satanic aspects of negativism: the gothic-romantic phantoms, the Eido-Kabuki or Tibetans are creatures that failed to achieve a specific goal in their lives. They keep returning because of this unfinished business. There is the negation of choreographic movement, of tourist scenery and local aesthetic value...
INSTRUCTION FOR USE
Edith DekyndtA silent animated drawing created out of manuals for consumption objects for public or private use. Dekyndt combines an inventory of daily instruction, but, in this way, the slide show questions our formatted consumeristic experience and faces us to the aesthetics of how-to included in ordinary packagings and their universal codified language....
MYODESOPSIES (PROBABLE SONG)
Edith DekyndtMyodesopsia is a term derived from Greek (muiôdès,opsis) and refers to the “spots” we see when we close our eyes or when we poke into them for some time, as this stimulates their appearance. One of the possible explanations for the observation of these small dots is that they have to do with remnants of tissue that belong to an embryonic state of the body...
Polemics, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist
ABOUT THE ANTICAPITALIST CARNIVAL
Charley CaseTo work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection. Raoul Vaneigem About the Anticapitalistic Carnival illustrates the importance of the celebration in (r)evolutionary thinking...
INSOMNIAC DREAM
Edith DekyndtA camera is trying to focus on an empty wall in the exhibition space. The fact that it is pointed at a dark surface prevents the auto-focus mechanism from finding a sharp focus. The film obtained is projected onto the same area, creating a mirror effect which disturbs our perception of it...
PROOF OF LIFE
Herman AsselberghsThe interior of an open, empty space: the frontier between ’inside’ and ’out side’ is slight. The only sign of human presence is to be found as a voice-over: a male voice recalling horrifying TV-images, a popular disaster film, a long-term imprisonment. The title alludes to the diplomatic negotiating jargon used during the video recording of a live hostage...
MAX BILL
Jef CornelisMax Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...
Hats, Ria Pacquée, 2011. Courtesy the Artist
