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VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): DIALOGUE AVEC UNE CAMÉRA
Jacques LennepA mixture between a camera study and a performance wherein the artist communicates with the camera in sign language using flags to communicate his message....
MIC MAC: AH, VOUS VOILÀ ROBERTO D'ORAZIO! [SYNDICALISTE]
Claudio PazienzaThe magazine Mic Mac, conceived by RTBF and ARTE, offers a perspective on the present as it is confided to artists. Current events are rendered with a non-journalist, personal approach. Each of the sequences is an encounter in a polling booth with a Belgian personality. The texts are projected onto a prompter, objects, sounds are offered to the guest as a cause for ironic exposure....
LA DERNIÈRE (S)CÈNE OU L’ÉVANGILE SELON SAINT BORIS
Boris LehmanA dialogue based on the Gospel according to St John. The apostles are played by friends (the disciples) of Boris Lehman, most of themselves moviemakers, filmed in front of the last house still standing opposite the new buildings of the European Union. Judas is played by Claudio Pazienza and Christ by Lehman himself...
Shelly Silver, TALK, 1980 © the artist
LE BÉTON PARAÎT PLUS DOUX AU SOLEIL
Wiktoria SynakModel City in Brussels is impressive because of its dimensions but the blackened blocks have something frightening to them as well. The idea of integrating multiple social groups in one newly constructed neighbourhood was presented by Fernand Brunfaut in 1958 during the Universal Exposition. The project was subsequently realized but due to a lack of money wasn't completed properly...
CHUTE D'UNE CHAISE
Michel FrançoisThis video shows us a chair falling down a staircase. It bumps and breaks. This gesture poses the artistic act as one of mutilation. Defacing everyday objects in this way alters the way in which we perceive them....
PIECES FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS
Filip FrancisA series of different experiments at an artistic workshop, a tunnel in Antwerp and in a gallery, with simple oblong pieces of wood, placed one after the other in such a way that, when the first one is touched, a chain-reaction is set off with the pieces falling backwards....
AFTER EMPIRE
Herman AsselberghsA search for the alternative to an image of meaning, inspired by Antonio Negri’s and Michael Hardt’s ‘Empire’. The insights from this politico-philosophical study on the contemporary world serve as a starting point for a reflection on positive forms of collective resistance and emancipatory representations in times of war...
VIDÉO HEBDO 56
Claude CattelainTwo different points of view on the same subject in order to get things clear end up to make them more confused....
