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DÉLIRIUM VIDÉO 7
Jacques LennepPart seven in this series of short sketches, consists mainly of performances the artist gave in Belgium and abroad. Paying homage to amongst others Marcel Broodthaers and Belgian surrealists, we see the artist functioning as a ironic priest, giving away for free his artwork to the audience after he cut it into pieces, or making a new absurd installation in his studio based on found footage....
LE PETIT JEUNE HOMME DE BINCHE
Jan VrommanCarnival in the Belgian town of Binche is not just a revel and an orgy. It’s subject to strict rules. Every male inhabitant of Binche can become ’Gilles’. Every Gilles puts on a colourful suit and is accompanied by a drummer wherever he goes. On top of this the Gilles all wear the same wax mask during the afternoon of carnival...
VOX CLAMANS IN DESERTO
Ria Pacquée’Vox Clamans in Deserto’ is a combination of filmed reality (blood running down streets after a ritual slaughter in Moroccan Medina) and performance (a woman flinging sand into her face), intersected with a plain bright red screen...
AND TO
Peter DownsbroughWe don't know where we are. We're in a car, looking at other cars, roads, structures, tunnels – wasteland. Position? The Global Positioning System informs us, with its horde of satellites, orbiting Earth. Guiding us with its synthesised voice, transporting us, 'translating' us. Telling us what to do...
Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine, Till Roeskens, 2009 © the artist & producer
VIDÉOCARTOGRAPHIES: AÏDA, PALESTINE
Till RoeskensIn ’Vidéocartographies: Aïda, Palestine’ Roeskens asks several inhabitants of the Palestinian refugee camp Aïda to draw him a map. The camera records the inverse of these scribbles, showing the marks of the black pen through the white paper...
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...
A WEEKEND WITH MONSIEUR MAGRITTE
Jef Cornelis’a weekend with Monsieur Magritte’ was compiled from fragments of amateur films Magritte made himself on super-8 and 8mm. The first part – ’Saturday’ – drew from the films he shot in the 1956 -1960 period together with his friends from Brussels and from the recordings of his own works...
CONTAINER 01: OVER SENTIMENTALITEIT
Jef CornelisOn the occassion of ‘het ontroerparcours’ (course of emotions), a series of articles in which a number of Flemish people were questioned about their subjective definition and experience of ‘emotion’, the Container-panel decides to investigate the term...
