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MARCEL BROODTHAERS – HERMAN JACOBS
Jef CornelisMarcel Broodthaers is exhibiting his work made from 1963 to 1971 at the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. Herman Jacobs prepares for an exhibition of his work at the De Zwarte Panter Gallery, also in Antwerp....
THE BREATHING LESSON
Dora GarcíaAlthough Dora Garcia (°1965, Valladolid, Spain) produces work that is mostly performative and installation-based, video is used as a means to question the boundaries between representation and reality. The artist engages herself with the question of what is real and what is fiction, and thus visitors become protagonists in a fiction- sometimes knowingly, sometimes not...
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...
VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): TV RÉALISME
Jacques LennepA television screen shows a pan of a park. Shortly it becomes clear that what we see actually is two performers carrying an 'empty' television set in the park and that the image is nature itself. An early experiment with the medium of television in the spirit of Nam June Paik or Wolf Vostell....
INSIDE RUMOURS
Hugo Pauwels - Sabine Van Der LindenSome buildings radiate a personality of their own through their shape and environment. Apparently they exist there, in and of themselves, unaffected by time and human restlessness. Still, every window hides an existence. This is the short story of one of these buildings, filmed over 24 hours, in which flashes of the people that live there and rumours peep through...
EFEMERIA
Jan VrommanEfemeria is a transcription to video of a project with slides, a poem and soundscape from 1958. This assemblage of ’words/images/sounds’ is extremely nude in its juxtaposition. The transcription to video of 2011, became an act of purity and brutality, radical in all its simplicity. The slides are from photographer Julien Coulommier, the words are written and read by poet Chris Yperman...
TENANT
Grace SchwindtIn 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...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 65. MURIEL
Steve ReinkeI remember when he took me to the fair. I put on ribbons and my prettiest dress....
BED
Johan Grimonprez‘Bed’ is an interactive installation, consisting of a continuous projection of an empty bedroom projected on the wall of a house or a building. The scale is almost 1:1 with respect to real life size, creating the illusion as if one is actually looking through a window in the wall of a house...
