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THE ASCENT OF MAN. PARTS I, II & III
Jayce Salloum..The Ascent of Man.. Parts I, II, & III is a body of work which looks at the way reproductions/ representations are used to promote, influence and direct a way of life. Perceptual process is examined and guided through common gesture and implication of context to present a view of scientific/corporate materialistic domination of humanistic concerns...
BEFORE LIFE
Edith Dekyndt‘3 minutes of darkness’ and ‘Before Life’ are two separate projects, but they both give an approach to the visual perception of the individual of the world: from the nearest (the dust on the surface of the eye) to the most distant (the viewpoint of the astronauts). They were both made without a camera and with limited technical means...
IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT IF YOU COME AGAIN, ONLY NEXT TIME DON’T BRING ANY GEAR, EXCEPT A TEA KETTLE…
Johan GrimonprezThe multi-channel installation ‘It will be all right if you come again, only next time don’t bring any gear, except a tea kettle…’ (1994-2004) explores the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Western imperialism...
J.P.
Steve ReinkeA remix of the 20 mn ‘Tuesday and I’ by young Canadian artist Jean-Paul Kelly. Reinke leaves the 20 mn one-take monologue intact, speeding up and slowing down the tape (mostly speeding up) to extract empathy for the subject and squeeze sounds out of his body....
PRÉLUDE N°3
Bernard Gigounon“It all happened one evening. I was in a bar, quietly having a drink. A man sat down beside me and as we were alone, we started talking together. We spoke about red wine, women and music and at this moment, I realized that this man was Claude Debussy. I told him that I made videos and explained my work to him...
LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR MAG [FRENCH VERSION]
Jef Cornelis’Les Vacances de Monsieur MAG’ tracks the development of René Magritte’s body of work, and it also sheds a light on the persona of the artist, as well as on his views on being an artist...
STANLEY BROUWN 6 STAPPEN 10X (MTL GALLERY BRUSSEL) + KAREL APPEL
Jef CornelisSince the early Sixties, the autodidact Dutch conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn (°1935) is internationally known for his practice based on the acts of displacement, walking and measuring. For instance, he once announced that his solo exhibition was taking place in every shoe shop in Amsterdam...
PRISM
An van. Dienderen - Rosine Mbakam - Eléonore YameogoFor PRISM Belgian filmmaker An van. Dienderen invited Brussels based Rosine Mbakam from Cameroon and Paris based Eléonore Yameogo from Burkina Faso to make a film in which the differences in their skin color serves as a departure to explore their experiences with the limitations of the medium. Photographic media are technologically and ideologically biased, favoring Caucasian skin...
CHRONICLES OF THAT TIME
Maria Iorio - Raphaël Cuomo“Reconstruct the melody to reconstruct a chronicle of that time”. The film is in search of the melody a friend shared with the filmmakers 15 years ago when they were travelling together between North Africa and Sicily...
RALFS FARBEN
Lukas Marxt“We can’t use the same light, we have to use completely new keys with completely new light and even these can be found to a limited extent,” says Ralf at one point...
