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MADRIGAAL
Lili DujourieA bare wooden floor fills the screen. Encircled tightly by the camera, a clothed figure rolls, folds and unfolds upon itself between pauses of variable duration. Resorting to the close-up reinforces the sculptural aspect of the body. A contrapuntal rhythm emerges as each successive change in form overlaps the previous one in a movement that never discloses the contours of a fixed state of being...
untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends ..., Jayce Salloum, 1982-2002 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 3B: (AS IF) BEAUTY NEVER ENDS ...
Jayce SalloumAmbient images, orchids blooming, plants growing, clouds and water are superimposed over raw footage of the carnage at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon after the 1982 massacre, with the voiceover of Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh camp) recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine....
DETERMINATION (1)
Hans Op de BeeckA nine-year-old boy is looking at the spectator through the rear window of a car. The car is travelling on a stretch of motorway; the audience is positioned as though they are riding directly behind. The boy remains in position, staring at the viewer throughout the duration of the work. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...
AGAIN ON THE SEAS
Joëlle de La CasinièreWhile they were in Peru in 1973-74 to shoot movies, artists and poets Joëlle de La Casinière and Michel Bonnemaison decided to invite photographer and film director Carlos Ferrand on a trip across the Andes and through the coastal desert along the Pacific Ocean with a Leica camera and a precise mission: constantly photographing out the window of the riding Land-Rover...
LA DANSE DES QUAIS / DE KAAIENDANS
Rébecca FruitmanProduced thanks to a range of local partners, the Super 8 Project explores the audiovisual memory of the historic Quay district located in and around the former Port of Brussels...
DCA SPIEL
Hänzel & GretzelA scratched karaoke featuring among others a barking Vietnam war soldier, a blind knife magician and hypnotic comments on historical Olympic Games - an early rhythmic work....
BANG! JAMES LEE BYARS RE-ENACTMENT
Cel CrabeelsFor the exhibition 'ORBIS TERRARUM—Ways of Worldmaking' (Museum Plantijn Moretus, Antwerp, 2000, curated by Moritz Küng), Cel Crabeels made this video re-enacting James Lee Byars’ well known piece 'Smithereens: the remnants of an exploded globe' that was on view in Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1993, Brussels...
A FILM
Marie José BurkiIn her video works, the Swiss artist and photographer Marie José Burki explores how the visible can be classified, formatted and categorized. Burki sets out from observation and plays with audiovisual codes. The arbitrarily entitled A film wants and doesn’t want to be ‘a film’. Conceived deliberately for a projection room — i.e...
PIET MONDRIAAN
Jef CornelisPeter Struycken, one of the first European artists to make use of the computer, compares Composition in Black and White, the first abstract painting by Piet Mondriaan, to a computer programme-simulated copy – ‘Computer Composition With Lines’ by Michael Noll, who was a scientific advisor for the White House at the time...
