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4 POINTS LIMITÉS
Jacques Louis Nyst'4 points limités / La caméra est reliée au magnétoscope par un câble de 100 mètres’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium and one of the few videos of the first Nyst period not to use a canvas-like white surface as a background...
LOST NATION, JANUARY 1999
Johan GrimonprezIn January 1999, at the height of the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage asked me if’d be in for a trip to Lost Nation. They explained this was part of a project called LOST NATION they were setting up in Brussels: a place slash library slash installation about vanished nations such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, USSR, and Zaire...
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...
BUNCH OF FLOWERS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte, as always dressed in a dandy-like costume, holds a bouquet of yellow roses. What does he have in mind for them? A few seconds later it becomes clear. Violently he starts spinning them around with the help of a drill. Delmotte keeps on spinning and spinning, until the roses are completely demolished. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
APHASIA
Jelena JurešaAphasia focuses on the absurdity that arises from the collective silence surrounding crime and the compartmentalisation of historical events. In medical vocabulary ‘aphasia’ refers to the sufferer’s difficulty in finding words or losing the ability to speak...
WINTER PRAYERS
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeIs every collector necessarily a murderer? Jean-Paul de Vries, the film’s protagonist, is quite the opposite of a killer. He may not exactly be the one who wakes the dead - but he does try to show that there are other ways to live and deal with life, rather than ‘protect oneself against death’...
NUDE DESCENDING A STAIRCASE
Eitan Efrat - Sirah Foighel BrutmannThe first part of Nude Descending a Staircase is a composition of clips found online that were made by visitors—pilgrims—to the remote memorial site of Walter Benjamin in Portbou, Spain. Each of these individual registrations is anchored in the specificity of the location...
untitled, Jayce Salloum, 1999- © the artist & producer
UNTITLED
Jayce Salloum‘untitled’ is an ongoing multi-channel video installation continuing my series of projects addressing social and political realities and representations, manifestations, and enunciations, focusing on borders/nationalisms/ movements (shifts, transitions, and interstitial space/time) and subjectivity and the conditions of living between polarities of culture, geography, history, and ideo...
OP-ART
Jef CornelisAn exhibition of a work by the Italian artist Julio Le Parc gives cause to a short report on ‘Op-art’ or Optical Art. This movement arose from geometrical abstract art and it is often bracketed together with Kinetic Art. Often Op-art is the starting point for an attempt to set up an artwork in a ‘scientific’ way, according to strict rules...
