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THE SOUL COLLECTOR
Edith DekyndtEdith Dekyndt asked various people to draw a soul in less than five minutes. In this video, the drawings are presented one after the next, following one another and presenting the materialisation of a thought as a process still in action....
JUMPY CHICKEN
Messieurs DelmotteThis time the title is particularly ironic as the chicken is not actually jumping. Two strings are attached to its legs, which are used to pull the chicken away. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT LETTER 19012009
Mira SandersThe second ’Silent Letter’ was written on April 15th, 2009. While the subtitles explain the rules of hopscotch and refer to a little girl who asked to play with her, we see a frozen image of a section of a breakwater (a manmade construction offering some protection to coastline). The animal sitting on the breakwater starts to run when the video shot does....
A CUP OF COFFEE'S STATE OF BEING
Messieurs DelmotteFor a good cup of coffee: first serve the coffee, then add some milk, and even a bit of sugar of your choosing. Mix all the ingredients, and, finally, taste it!...
Blue, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist
BLUE
Ria PacquéeFrom her house, Ria Pacquée walks to the nearby art centre Extra City in Antwerp. She carries a long wooden lath that covers a large part of her face. While the setting might make one think of the typical comedy ladder drill, Pacquée performs her movements with precision and a deadpan seriousness....
TELEVESSEL
Joëlle de La CasinièreTelevessel is a classified television work (in the sense intended by Georges Perec) and an initial rational attempt at television aesthetics. Based on a typology of ‘trunk-men’ and ‘talking heads’, this praying figure of the small screen has arranged a huge all-musical composition known as an ‘oratorio’ on account of its obvious character of sacred art...
untitled part 2: beauty and the east, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2003 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 2: BEAUTY AND THE EAST
Jayce SalloumPart 2 in a series of attempts at concretizing the notion of interstitiality, this videotape addresses issues of nationalism & the nation state, polarities of time, alienation, the refusal & construction of political identities, ethno-fascism, the body as object & metaphor, agents, monsters & abjectness, subjective affinities, and objective trusts...
HOE WAAR VALS KAN ZIJN
Stefaan DecostereWorking under the cover of imitation and parody, Jacques Charlier has allways set out to expose the perverse use to which images are put by art and society. Decostere’s film demonstrates this in an exemplary manner...
LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR MAG [FRENCH VERSION]
Jef Cornelis’Les Vacances de Monsieur MAG’ tracks the development of René Magritte’s body of work, and it also sheds a light on the persona of the artist, as well as on his views on being an artist...
