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STILL HOLDING STILL

Sarah Vanagt
From the early days of photography, we know a series of photographs called ‘Invisible Mothers’. In each of these portraits of young children, a ghostly apparition is seen behind the children...

Color Walks, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

COLOR WALKS

Ria Pacquée
In recent years, Ria Pacquée has focused in her work on colour in a postcolonial world. She makes us ask: “What is color?” Ria Pacquée does not talk color but lives it, in her travels, her imagination, and in her art. She takes us on color walks, like William Burroughs while staying in the Beat Hotel in Paris in the early 1960s...

NON-LIEUX, PART I

Pascal Baes
An attempt to exorcise the satanic aspects of negativism: the gothic-romantic phantoms, the Eido-Kabuki or Tibetans are creatures that failed to achieve a specific goal in their lives. They keep returning because of this unfinished business. There is the negation of choreographic movement, of tourist scenery and local aesthetic value...

BIRD IN ITALIAN IS UCCELLO

Gernot Wieland
Gernot Wieland's new film, Bird in Italian is Uccello (2021), furthers his interest in psychological states and the constitution of belonging in different social contexts. Drawing upon Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, Bird in Italian is Uccello (re)enacts a theatrical production of the horror-thriller...

atlantis, 2008, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp

ATLANTIS

Pieter Geenen
In 2009 the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Chinese Yangtze River was completed. As a result of this construction, 632 sq km of land a distance of 660 km upstream flooded up to a level of 175 m. Numerous social and environmental issues related to its construction made this dam one of the world’s most controversial projects in recent history...

VASCULUM

Pieter Geenen
In speaking about what's far, exotic and unknown lies what's close and familiar. vasculum turns to the central region of the province of Limburg in Flanders, Belgium. The artist's own native land. In the twentieth century it was known for its coal mining. Here it finds itself between appearing and disappearing, between the utopian and the dystopian, amidst efforts of preservation...

L'OMBRELLE EN PAPIER [CONFÉRENCE VIDÉO]

Jacques Louis Nyst
Conference grouping the different sequences: ’Le paysage’, ’Le voyage de Christophe Colomb’, ’Le tombeau des nains’, ’La mort d’une poule’, ’Le Robot’, ’Revolver’ and ’L’ombrelle descendant un escabeau’. The paper sunshade approaches Spring, it is growing amongst the crocuses...

JAN FABRE, DIRIGENT VAN HET TOEVAL

John Heymans - Peter Scholten
Starting in the visual arts, Fabre was immediately attracted to other artistic disciplines: theatre, performance, installation art, action theatre, dance and opera. Over the last 15 years Fabre, quintessentially a performance artist, has become a 'director of coincidence', as he himself puts it...

LE MIRACLE DE SAN GENNARO

Pauline Julier

GEESTELIJKE GEZONDHEIDSZORG (3): "ALS JULLIE VRIENDELIJK BUITENGAAN DAN IS DAT BIJ ONS OOK OVER"

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 18/03/1975...