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LE GUIDE DU PARC
Sven AugustijnenAn unusual visit of the Parc Royal in Brussels. The guide in this fake documentary introduces you to the habits of the park’s gay scene, taking his time; slowly making you discover the hundred details of the park’s ‘social life’...
Two Girls Downtown Iowa, Summers Elaine, 1973. Courtesy the Artist
TWO GIRLS DOWNTOWN IOWA
Elaine SummersIn ‘Two Girls Downtown Iowa’ two women rush toward each other on a crowded pavement at the slowest of slow-motion speeds. Summer creates a remarkable conflation of kinetic effect and almost painterly moment-by-moment composition...
PROVISORY OBJECT 03
Edith DekyndtLike the pieces ‘Provisory Object 01’ and ‘Provisory Object 02’, Dekyndt’s video shows the membrane of a soap bubble, in this case stretched between the thumb and finger of a hand...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER 22012009
Mira SandersThe fourth 'Silent Letter' was written on January 22nd, 2009. While we see people playing volleyball on a beach, the narrator reflects on water, and how it changes from rain, moving through man's world and back to cloud again. In the end she refers to the seaside, where clouds are best viewed...
ONCE UPON A TIME
Emilio López-MencheroWhen 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...
GIZEH-BLANKENBERGE
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée returns to Egypt, showing some of the sights and sounds which follow the sea of tourists which descends on Egypt every year. Against a back-drop of familiar gods, stylised figures and hieroglyphs, a steady stream of behatted, sunglass-wearing figures take photographs and record video footage...
CONTAINER 08: OVER DON JUAN
Jef CornelisA discussion on the figure and myth of Don Juan, which originates in three different sources: the original version by Tirso de Molina from 1630, the version by Molière from 1665, and the libretto and opera by Mozart and da Ponte from 1787. Even among these versions there are considerable variants regarding the characters, the personalities, intrigues and endings...
