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ONE, TWO, MANY
Manon de BoerThe film one, two, many is made up of three performances: a flute piece with continuous breathing, a spoken monologue, and a song by four singers in front of an audience. Starting from different audiovisual perspective, each section explores the existential space of the voice...
MARCEL BROODTHAERS – HERMAN JACOBS
Jef CornelisMarcel Broodthaers is exhibiting his work made from 1963 to 1971 at the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. Herman Jacobs prepares for an exhibition of his work at the De Zwarte Panter Gallery, also in Antwerp....
ET[-
Peter DownsbroughET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary...
NACHTKOORTS
Frank Theys"Night fever" is a portrait of a character with anxiety disorder. The installation is inspired on the story The Cave by Franz Kafka. It’s depicting a secluded man, locked up in his own world he cultivates his fear. Leaving his apartment he tentatively reaches out for help...
CANTAERT HUNTER 8906020
Ria PacquéeIn 'Cantaert Hunter 8906020’, a figure is depicted running through a cornfield. This figure is split into three, as the work cuts between three films of the woman running while wearing different clothes and hairstyles. In the streams, the corn leaves brush harshly across her face, simultaneously caressing and hitting her...
ONE OF US
Koen TheysIn a misty white landscape an endless procession of people roams as in a procession. They are characters from the three largest processions of Flanders. They look like figures from old Bible movies. The men are wearing fake beards, dusty robes and fake long-haired wigs; the women have exaggerated make-up and wear long robes and burkas...
ART & MUSIC / ECOUTE DE LA MUSIQUE, FAITES DE LA MUSIQUE
Jacques CharlierCharlier is playing his guitar. The camera is focused on his hands. The artist keeps on repeating the same chords. All of a sudden he stops playing. A close-up of a record. Charlier is wearing a fake nose and mustache while he is listening to some music. Should we not to take music too seriously?...
METAMORFOSE VAN HET OBJECT (1910-1970 PSK BRUSSEL)
Jef CornelisIn 1971 the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels presented an overview of modern and contemporary art at a large retrospective with sixty years of visual arts. The subtitle of the exhibition was Art and Anti-Art. It featured work by famous Belgian and international artists, including René Magritte, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and many others...
