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ALONG THE SIDES ALONG

Mira Sanders
Mira Sanders explores the potential of journeying to touch upon and visualise cultural, historical and sensory limits. For Along the Sides Along, Sanders retraces the boundaries of her own oeuvre by employing the methods of inventorising, cataloguing and exploration...

PARKING

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte runs along a motorway, and ends up in a collision with a traffic sign. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

AILE 4 NEIGE

Jacques Louis Nyst
A science fiction story in which people disappear from the Earth and the machines keep on working. The fictive situations being inspired by objects from the Nysts’ immediate surroundings....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 20. DEAF

Steve Reinke
My father exists in a large room where he lectures to an audience which is mesmerized despite the fact that they are deaf and, moreover, cannot even lip-read as they speak a wholly other language....

ALONE TOGETHER, THE SOCIAL LIFE OF BENCHES

Esther Johnson
Alone Together, the Social Life of Benches illuminates the thoughts and memories of frequent users of two public spaces in London: General Gordon Square, Woolwich and St Helier Open Space, Sutton...

1937 [FIRST CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

DJ REVERSE

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’DJ Reverse’ Messieurs Delmotte parodies an icon of popular culture and music: the deejay. He puts on a record that plays a disco tune. Then Delmotte starts dancing and scratching the record badly, screaming ’baby baby baby’. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...

Take into the air my quiet breath, 2007, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne © the artists

TAKE INTO THE AIR MY QUIET BREATH

Julia Meltzer - David Thorne
In 1966, the Syrian government’s Ministry of Endowments solicited plans for a building to replace a 14th-century Mamluk mosque in Martyr’s Square in the centre of Damascus. A young architect proposed a design for a 5-star hotel and new mosque. In 1971, his plans were scrapped. In 1982, building started on a new structure...

THE STREET

Jef Cornelis
The street is more like a machine of movement equipped to make traffic run smoothly than, in its original and spontaneous form, a breeding ground for life. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of a new way of living. Residential areas have turned into traffic zones; inhabitants are pushed back into their homes...

PANTYHEAD

Alison Murray
In ’Pantyhead’ Murray tackles the scary dreams and exciting nightmares of girls and boys in the age of prime time television and decent citizens. TV Girl works in her family’s Chinese Take Away. Channel-hopping is her companion. A man with knickers on his head comes off the TV and into her midst. Battle ensues...