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PICNIC
Steve ReinkeA collaboration with Dani Leventhal, who shot all the footage. Near death, death and the pastoral: a picnic....
THEN, Peter Downsbrough, 2008 © the artist & producer
THEN
Peter DownsbroughTHEN is a video project filmed in and around San Francisco. The camera moves with the traffic on the Bay Bridge, which is the longest high-level, steel bridge in the world...
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...
STANDING OVATION
Bernard GigounonThe original soundtrack of a clip excerpted from Jean Renoir’s short film ‘Une partie de campagne’ (1936) picturing a river under heavy rain has been switched. Applauses in a concert hall are here recalling the sound of the rain. The video was originally edited as part of an in-situ installation during a concert by Martha Argerich at the Royal Music Academy...
SIMPLE X-DOG
Messieurs DelmotteA short video-performance where we see Monsieur Delmotte in a city garden, lifting up a dog tenderly in his arms and looking up in an enigmatic way towards the sky. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...
A TONGUE CALLED MOTHER
Eva GioloA Tongue Called Mother depicts the relationship between language, gestures and affiliation. It slowly captures the actions and words of three generations of women in the same family and children learning to read, meditating on words learnt and forgotten through the body....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 57. GHOST PRODUCTION
Steve ReinkeAt those places where an object known to be lost is desired, a ghost is produced....
AS SOL TO EVA
Teresa CosThe appropriation of the famous letter that Sol LeWitt wrote in 1965 to artist and friend Eva Hesse is at the center of this work. In what seems to be a Skype conversation with a distant friend -wearing a t-shirt printed with LeWitt’s hand drawing as it appears on the manuscript- the letter becomes a two way pep talk in the mouth of an online oracle...
BERLAYMONT DREAMING
Justin BennettThe Berlaymont building, seat of the European Commission, is a symbolic centre for the European quarter of Brussels as well as for Europe itself. Formally interesting is the fact that the original modernist architecture has been renovated and forseen with a new ‘skin’ or rather an armour plating, changing the outward appearance while preserving the inner form...
