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PERFORMING THE BORDER

Ursula Biemann
’Performing the Border’ is a video essay set in the Mexican-US border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment, located right across the border from El Paso, Texas. ’Performing the Border’ looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space constituted through the performance and management of gender relations...

EGG MUSIC

Filip Francis
The same performance as in the video ‘Mensen en eieren’ (‘People and Eggs’), where people dressed in white are throwing eggs, is recorded from the other side. Now the viewer can see the eggs getting smashed against a white wall. The wall gets completely covered in egg yolk...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTERS

Mira Sanders
Silent letter is divided into six monitors. Five of them present a video sequence in which lines of sharing, contours, observation, positioning (1 x n) in the landscape, urban space, and the artist studio, are introduced. Each video, inscribed with a date, delivers the story of a foreign observer. This story is subtitled on a black screen...

MADONNA WITH CHILD

Nicolas Provost
A very personal, fairly explicit and worrying portrayal of the birth of Christ....

A L'OMBRE DE L'HYPERBOLOÏDE

Lucile Desamory
In several respects the films of Lucile Desamory savour of the work by Stan Vanderbeek, who extracted a style of his very own from an amalgam of film, drawings and stopaction animation – and it’s no coincidence that this style became a source of inspiration for the absurd animations by Terry Gilliam...

The Circle Marokko, Ria Pacquée, 2004. Courtesy the Artist

THE CIRCLE OF MAROKKO 2004

Ria Pacquée
From up-close, Pacquée films a craftsman in the streets of Marrakesh. Seated on the ground, he is making circles in round rusty plates. Without further explication – the sound on the piece is the one of a nearby goldsmith hammering – the viewer is left alone with this enigmatic, slightly disturbing image...

UN VOYAGE À TRAVERS N-DIMENSIONS

Mira Sanders
In this travelogue I wonder by way of drawing a section of a photograph of Maastricht, what the concept dimension could mean. The film shows an investigation where a thinking and making is happening. I invite in the end the spectator to think further about the dimension in between the projection and the place where s/he sits....

JAN FABRE, DIRIGENT VAN HET TOEVAL

John Heymans - Peter Scholten
Starting in the visual arts, Fabre was immediately attracted to other artistic disciplines: theatre, performance, installation art, action theatre, dance and opera. Over the last 15 years Fabre, quintessentially a performance artist, has become a 'director of coincidence', as he himself puts it...

DCA SPIEL

Hänzel & Gretzel
A scratched karaoke featuring among others a barking Vietnam war soldier, a blind knife magician and hypnotic comments on historical Olympic Games - an early rhythmic work....

EEN OPENBAAR BAD VOOR MUNSTER

Jef Cornelis
’Kasper König’s Münster Sculpture Project’ is an event held every ten years in Münster, a small city in the Rhine valley both near Cologne and Frankfurt. Münster got catapulted back in 1977, when curator König and Münster museum chief Klaus Bussmann set up a show of public art in the city...