NON STOP DESIGN
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tries to saw the legs of a chair while sitting on it....
NEWSPAPERS MAN
Messieurs DelmotteA short video performance, in which we see Monsieur Delmotte entering the image, covered completely with newspapers. He frees himself from the newspapers and walks away from the camera, leaving the papers behind. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...
N12°13.062'/ W 001°32.619' EXTENDED
Vincent MeessenThe title of this video refers, through GPS coordinates, to a location in Africa, which is both specific and abstract. Two men wander through a deserted site in the middle of the desert. At first sight it’s an archaeological ruin. As the images reveal more of the environment, it becomes clear that the construction was built by the two of them, hewn from the surrounding stone...
NO PROBLEMS WITH FREAKS
Hänzel & GretzelThe various characters of legendary Tod Browning’s movies re-cast in a thrilling suspense. A freaky jig....
NEMAWASHI CACAHUÈTE (A-SIDE)
Charley CaseThe work of Charley Case is often based on a binary notion. This video is constituted by a two-part form, modelled after a peanut. It is the biotope of pairs of organisms, uprooted bodies evolving around each other, cherishing each other ephemerally or ultimately melting into an intangible unity...
NEARLY PRESENT, JUST PAST
Cel Crabeels"If I were young, I would destroy a Dan Graham piece, I would smash the goddamn Dan Graham piece." (Dan Graham in an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2001) This subjective-documentary video is part of a project on the violent and thorough destruction of a pavilion by the American artist Dan Graham...
NOTHING !
Messieurs DelmotteA video-installation that was produced at the occasion of Brugge 2002 cultural capital of Europe. We see a suite of short sequences shot in the touristic centre of Bruges...
NAZARETH
Peter Krüger‘Nazareth’ is an audio-visual quest for the still living fragments of Christian spirituality: in Nazareth-Belgium, Nazareth-Ghana and Nazareth-Israel. The work focuses on suffering and spirituality of ordinary people in three different villages sharing more than just a name...
NON-LIEUX, PART I
Pascal BaesAn attempt to exorcise the satanic aspects of negativism: the gothic-romantic phantoms, the Eido-Kabuki or Tibetans are creatures that failed to achieve a specific goal in their lives. They keep returning because of this unfinished business. There is the negation of choreographic movement, of tourist scenery and local aesthetic value...
NADINE
Jacques LennepThe artist talks about his holiday as a child when he became friends with Nadine. Old photographs of Nadine and Lennep are alternated with images of desolate places....
NOW WITH IN THREE PARTS
Peter DownsbroughNow With returns to the motif of the dice. The multiple arrangements of a pair of dice, each equally valid, if not equally valuable, are clearly part of Downsbrough’s attraction to serial systems of arrangement...