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Empty Head, Peter Finnemore, 2006. Courtesy the Artist
EMPTY HEAD
Peter FinnemoreIn a wooden house interior, a cat is lying on a table, we recognize some elements of the artist camouflage like his hat and his sunglasses. Then, the artist enjoys to take away and put back his hat. By doing so, he discovers a disco ball that reflects the rays of lights: the cat doesn't seem to care about his joke....
DE KLOK SLAAT VIJF: TEXTIELARBEIDER
Jef CornelisSome 200 years ago, spinning and weaving used to be a domestic industry. Women and children spun, the men wove. With the invention of the flying shuttle in the eighteenth century, weaving became industrialized. Some time later, in England a semi-mechanic spinning machine was invented. In Belgium, the town of Ghent was the main centre of the textile industry...
MORE FROM THE JUDSON YEARS (EARLY 60S) INSTRUMENTAL-VOCAL WORKS VOL. 2
Philip CornerExcerpts from the liner notes of Volume Two, written by Philip Corner: ’Everything Max Has’ (1964), Max Neuhaus solo, recorded at the ONCE Festival, 1965. ’A performance of Max’s taking down all of his stuff; tons of equipment filling entire stages’. ’Big Trombone’ (1963), Jim Fulkerson improvisation over tape collage...
Blanket Apology, Adam Leech, 2010 © the artist
BLANKET APOLOGY
Adam LeechBlanket Apology focuses on strategies of communication that are used when public figures give public apologies. Like Speech Bubble (2008), Blanket Apology is a dialogue between a man and a woman...
Gand Est, 2007 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)
GAND
Angel VergaraVergara films this piece from the Book Tower in Ghent, each time in a different wind direction. While the camera covers the sky and parts of Ghent, Vergara uses a brush. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies a catalogue from Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition held in Ghent in 1986 and featuring several art interventions set up in domestic interiors in Ghent...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 01. EXCUSE OF THE REAL
Steve ReinkeI like making documentaries - documentary material is usually more interesting than anything I can imagine, and I don’t have to be bothered with all the trireme specifics of a fictional creation....
VIDEO-TAPE
Frank Van HerckFilmed in the studio of the Antwerp ICC; use of split- and overflow-techniques. Topic is the medium itself. A video camera records its reflection in a mirror, while several actions are being performed in front of it....
Promener les images, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
PROMENER LES IMAGES
Angel VergaraVergara is walking around different locations in Antwerp, holding a series of empty frames. With the empty frames he is suggesting that the actual artistic content and input of his performances should be looked for in the city itself...
DE BOUCHE À OREILLE
Claudio PazienzaThe pilot ’De bouche à oreille’ is an anthropological urban essay. It describes an environment and an era through its collection of proverbs, songs, recitations, dreams, tags, gestures, sounds, etc. Each episode should allow a researcher from the year 3000 to see and understand what we are made of....
