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RACE WOOL

Messieurs Delmotte
A race between ten colourful balls of wool, creatively conducted by Messieurs Delmotte. A registration of a playful, somewhat absurd performance in the best Messieurs Delmotte-tradition. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

REGARDING THE PAIN OF SUSAN SONTAG (NOTES ON CAMP)

Steve Reinke
This short video gets its name from two pieces of writing by Susan Sontag: her last book, ’Regarding the Pain of Others’, a meditation on empathy and the photograph as document; and the highly influential essay, now close to fifty years old, ’Notes on Camp’. Sontag’s work often questions photography’s ability to elicit empathy within the viewer...

MARCEL BROODTHAERS °1924

Jef Cornelis
On September 27th 1968, the Belgian poet, filmmaker and artist Marcel Broodthaers (1924 – 1976) opened his fictional Musée d’Art Moderne – Département des Aigles, Section XIXème Siècle (“Museum of Modern Art, Eagles Department, Section of the 19th Century”) in his house in Brussels, Rue de la Pépinière...

NOTES ON BEING ON THE WAY

Mira Sanders
The film presents notes on “being on the way” from 'Un journal d'un usager de l'espace. Het traceren van op en rond een Heerweg' ('Diary of a User of Space. Tracing on and around a Roman road'), the thesis Sanders is working on to get her PhD in the Arts...

DE MATERIE: ARCHITECTUUR EN BELGIË

Aglaia Konrad
Aglaia Konrad makes photos and videos of globalised urban spaces. She is particularly interested in worldwide urban development and pays special attention to urban programmes that have been sidelined -- projects that were never fully accepted or completed. With De Materie (The Matter or The Material), Konrad focuses on Belgium, the country where she lives...

INCH'ALLAH

Ria Pacquée
An associative mosaic of tiny instances in images and sound, zapping from east to west, from Belgium to Tunisia, from France to Israel, Morocco or Yemen. A reflection of everyday reality. The video shows an important step in the evolution of Ria Pacquée’s earlier work, where she headed out into the streets with a camera, arranging her images around formal elements...

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974)

Jacques Lennep
This compilation combines short video sequences, recorded in 1974 and 1975 by the CAP collective, making them the first to use video as an artistic medium of expression...

IJSBREKER 01: PANAMARENKO

Jef Cornelis - Freddy Coppens - Jackie Claeys
The first Ijsbreker (’Icebreaker’) on water: a transmission, created before the eyes of the viewer, aspiring to tear down the high walls around the art world, breaking through the ready-made and brushed up ways of television at the same time. This edition evolves around the artist Panamarenko, speaking from his living laboratory in Antwerp...

THE DEAD WEIGHT OF A QUARREL HANGS

Walid Raad
A videotape in three parts exploring the possibilities and limits of writing and imaging a history of the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1991). Setting up the viewer Ra’ad constructs a tape fictionally based on facts, but not necessarily his, they are hysterical symptoms of sorts that present imaginary events constructed out of innocent and everyday material...

OBJECTIEVE ARCHITECTUUR

Jef Cornelis
In 1971 the Swiss architect Werner Blaser curated the group exhibition 'Objective Architecture—Skin and Skeleton 'in the National Higher Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning in Antwerp. Jef Cornelis made a television report for the current art events programme 'Zoeklicht'. The documentary features only photographs of architecture on four continents...