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OTOLITH II
The Otolith GroupAs in ’Otolith I’, the narrator in ’Otolith II’ is related to Anjalika Sagar, one of the founders of the Otolith Group. Here, she is looking back from a distant future, while a pressure "high enough to change coal into diamond" functions as a metaphor for the way in which cities will in the future be confronted with continuous population growth...
X-MISSION
Ursula Biemann’X-Mission’ explores the refugee camp as one of the oldest extraterritorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camps as a case in point, the video engages with the different discourses – legal, symbolic, urban, mythological, historical – that give meaning to this exceptional space...
10TH OF NOVEMBER | 09:05
Els OpsomerEvery year on 10th of November | 09:05 in the morning, individuals across Turkey cease all activities - cars pull over, pedestrians stop and stand still - in remembrance of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey), which occurred on this day and time in 1938...
UNDERWATER
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tries to get a grip on a rock under water, his face heading up stream. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
TASTE THE WORLD
Wendy Morris‘Taste the World’ explores tourist notions of the ‘Third World’ as a playground for Europe. The title is derived from a promotional brochure in which travellers are encouraged to “taste the world”. The subtext makes clear that this ‘world’ is mainly there for the Eurostractrates with their unbridled leisure time and financial means...
FLYING CHICKENS [SERIAL]
Messieurs DelmotteFlying Chickens is cycle of 13 videos. The different parts can also be ordered separately...
BIËNNALE VAN PARIJS 1985
Jef CornelisA programme on the Paris Biennale in 1985, mainly focused on figurative art - “art on the wall”. During the mounting of the exhibitions in the ‘Grande Halle’, the camera zooms in on curators and organizers (Georges Boudaille, Kasper König, Alanna Heis, …), as well as artists like Keith Haring, David Hockney and Daniel Buren...
