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TOPIC II

Pascal Baes
The French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART II: CONDITIONS OF MERCY

Jayce Salloum
The title of the second part ’Conditions of Mercy’ refers to religion, a key element of a certain American imagery. After all, the Man who disclaims his capital ’M’ is he not the same who faithfully sings "we are the world"? Fall is the condition of mercy...

UMBRELLA [PART OF FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 1]

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is crossing a shopping street, opens his umbrella and tosses it over his shoulder onto the street. The camera stays on the object, letting us admire the reactions of the passers-by. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

EXPOSED

Karen Vanderborght
A structural video clip in genuine Peter Kubelka-style. 30 seconds of images are spread over 4min30 according to a certain mathematical scheme (derived from the musical track, which can be best described as Victorian doom drum & bass)....

LUNDI DE PÂQUES

Emilio López-Menchero
The Trying to be … series by Emilio López-Menchero is a series of photographs and video-performances where the artist embodies a mythical figures. Among them, López-Menchero already tried to be Ramirez Sanchez alias "Carlos", Yasser Arafat, James Ensor, Bin Laden, Frida Kalho, Rasputin or even Rrose Sélavy...

YESTERDAY IN CITY PLANNING

Andrea Geyer
’Yesterday in City Planning’ - part of Geyer’s series of ’One-Minute Videos’ - shows the hands of a designer or architect in action – scale ruler and propelling pencil at the ready...

ONCE UPON A TIME

Emilio López-Menchero
When Gery van Tendeloo, the president of the association of collectors Liebaert Projects, proposed to give the city of Courtrai to Emilio López-Menchero, the artist immediately recalled that the city is known as the Texas of Flanders, but he also thought about Morris, the auteur of the comics series Lucky Luke...

ARMATURE VARIABLE (L'ART DANS LES CHAPELLES)

Claude Cattelain
Constantly rebuilding a structure which is deliberately unstable, and whose form shifts and evolves with each new collapse and reconstruction....

READING FROM A RIBBON

Grace Schwindt
Reading from a ribbon explores desires and possibilities to create equality in social relations. The work is based on a monologue, which takes a form of a letter. The text is presented on various levels: stitched onto a 12-meter long ribbon that is slowly unfolding, written onto a costume and spoken by a performer...

YOURS,

Eva Giolo - Rebecca Jane Arthur - Katja Mater - Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat - Maaike Neuville
A group of artists are invited to be inspired by the work of the well-known, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, specifically her film News from Home (1976). The busy city of New York serves as the film’s main character. Meanwhile, we hear Akerman’s voice reading letters from her mother in Brussels...