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TWO SKIES
Lukas MarxtFor this piece, Marxt filmed the horizon from a drilling platform in the Gulf of Bothnia (Sweden) at two different times of day: dawn and dusk. In the editing, the artist flipped the images of the extremely dark, mysterious rippling water horizontally in order to stick them oppositely to each other...
WRITING DESIRE
Ursula BiemannWriting Desire is about the rapport between words and body and the creation of desire. The fast-paced video links the writing of romantic desire by means of electronic communication technologies to the increasing disembodiment of sexuality and commercialized gender relations. The booming bride market emerges as a site where the virtual and the physical exchange of bodies converge...
EVIDENCE
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeEvidence is a split screen film that combines disparate footage used in previous works. The film spans almost twenty years of artistic collaboration and it includes sequences from Us/Them (2001), The Bishop & The Doctor (2002), Propeller (2004), Winter Prayers (2006), The Gift (2007), The Scrap Iron Age (2008), Pressure (2009), War is Over (2011) and other films...
LA MORT D'UNE POULE
Jacques Louis NystRecorded in the Nysts’ living-room during a rainy day, this video marks the introduction of colour (in this case green) in the previously black and white universe of the Nysts’ videos. 'La mort d’une poule' shows a top hat held in the air thanks to the help of a stick...
CASSEURS D'IMAGES 1993-2004 (PART 1)
Michel François- ’Frigolith’ (extract): Tiny Styrofoam balls, blasted by an invisible force. They seem caught in the screen. The fixed frame prevents us from seeing what they’re in, where they’re coming from. The tight framing closes the image in order to open it. - ’Passage nuageux’: A shadow is cast over a desert-mountain...
AS…
Peter DownsbroughA video triptych (‘And’, ‘Here’, ‘As...) ‘fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ‘La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France, autumn 2004)...
10TH OF NOVEMBER | 09:05
Els OpsomerEvery year on 10th of November | 09:05 in the morning, individuals across Turkey cease all activities - cars pull over, pedestrians stop and stand still - in remembrance of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey), which occurred on this day and time in 1938...
CONCRETE & SAMPLES I: WOTRUBA WIEN
Aglaia KonradConcrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ‘architecture as sculpture’ and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner...
DE LANGSTE DAG
Jef Cornelis21st June 1986. With over 6 hours of live television the programme De Langste Dag ('The Longest Day') by the BRT network was one of the main participants in the art manifestation Initiatief ’86, an amalgam of exhibitions simultaneously unfolding over several locations in the city of Ghent...
