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FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1999, CITY OF LONDON

Charley Case
In Friday, June 18, 1999, City of London, Charley Case witnesses the widespread rage against the capitalist system and the emergence of an alternative system out of the system, out of time. This work reveals great sensitivity to political and social debate and militate for a freedom of expression and total movement...

UNTITLED SIOBHAN VIDEO

Steve Reinke
Reinke’s camera put in the hands of a young girl that wanders around in the house before finding her mother on the outdoor terrace . “My eyes are being flung around by this young child who wants to go to the beach, stop that!” (Reinke)...

Blanket Apology, Adam Leech, 2010 © the artist

BLANKET APOLOGY

Adam Leech
Blanket Apology focuses on strategies of communication that are used when public figures give public apologies. Like Speech Bubble (2008), Blanket Apology is a dialogue between a man and a woman...

LE BRUIT DE L'IMAGE

Michel Bonnemaison
"Look! There’s noise on the image. Something is flapping its wings in your TV set. It’s the flight of an angel passing through it. The rustle of Gabriel’s wings." The archangel Gabriel, a message expert, since he dictated the Koran to Mahomet, explains the invention of television through the operation of the Holy Ghost. The actor Enrique Ariman is all ears...

TENANT

Grace Schwindt
In Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...

REEL TO REEL

Teresa Cos
Accompanied by a solemn chant - which slowly becomes the feedback sound of a distorted guitar in loop - the miniature boats of the Mini-Europe theme park in Brussels appear one after the other, seamlessly. The models fade into each other intersecting reflections of great European landscapes, leaving the way to an eerie underwater world...

J'ESPÈRE QUE VOUS ALLEZ BIEN

Boris Van der Avoort
Taken from film archives, this playful and nostalgic ‘montage’ wants to picture the lives and hopes of three generations of a Belgian family between 1931 and 1997. Images belonging to the family possessions take us back to childhood and play, journeys, relationships, dancing...

IJSBREKER 09: WOENSDAGAVONDKOORTS: LET'S DANCE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
An edition of ’Ijsbreker’ on rolling dancing movements, taking a look at the widest range of forms, including cha cha cha, quickstep, tap dancing and the Chinese art of movement TaiChi Tao...

PAU BRASIL : JE VINDT NIET, WAT JE ZOEKT

Jef Cornelis
’You don’t find what you’re looking for’ is a phrase that can be found on a work of art by Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles. In their work, Meireles and several other contemporary Brazilian artists, continually give expression to the formal and social tension in which Brazilian culture finds itself...

LICHT & BEWEGING, GRAND BAZAAR, REGEN, LOPEN, ROLTRAP…

Filip Francis
At night, in the highways and city streets, road and car lights seem to live a life of their own. It is the enchantment of the movement and distortion of these lights that Francis records from his car. Neon lights of advertisements pop up on the screen. During the day it is the movement of cranes on a building site that captures Francis attention...