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WITH OR WITHOUT CLOTHES [PART OF FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 2]
Messieurs DelmotteSomething strange is happening behind the bushes on a little square. One by one, several pieces of clothing are ejected from the bushes. But when Messieurs Delmotte leaves the bush, he is still wearing all of his clothes. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...
TOMORROW SQUARE
Aglaia KonradThe installation ’Tomorrow Square’ consists of two facing projection screens on which eight hours of ‘cityscapes’ can be seen respectively. The visitor takes place in the middle between the screens. The exhibition situation was conceived by Konrad as a square, where different visual and audible signals are picked up from various directions...
MELT UMBRELLA
Messieurs DelmotteIn a rural landscape Delmotte sets fire to a black umbrella covered in oil. Then he leaves its metal carcass behind. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
SHIFT OF ATTENTION
Manon de BoerIn one take of 50 minutes a woman is filmed while listening to an actor who’s reading a transcription of her own monologues of memories of Los Angeles. Her stories were recorded on several occasions during two years after she came back from a long stay in Los Angeles...
GIZEH-BLANKENBERGE
Ria PacquéeRia Pacquée returns to Egypt, showing some of the sights and sounds which follow the sea of tourists which descends on Egypt every year. Against a back-drop of familiar gods, stylised figures and hieroglyphs, a steady stream of behatted, sunglass-wearing figures take photographs and record video footage...
FUTUR ANTÉRIEUR (A.K.A. DISCIPLES OF THE HEINOUS PATH - PART 1: THE PAIN OF EVERYONE)
Herman AsselberghsClocking in just under twenty minutes, Herman Asselberghs’ Futur Antérieur is, for the most part, a decidedly ‘anti-retinal’ affair: it consists of fifteen minutes of utter, stifling blackness filled with quasi-intolerable noise and an occasional glimmer of distant, shimmering twilight...
1937
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
DE KUNST VAN HET VERKOPEN
Jef CornelisThis programme investigates the relationship and interaction between art and advertising with slight ironic overtones, because they both push forward beautiful images of a beautiful world. To some degree each artwork is a way of making publicity for its owner, a status symbol and trendsetter – just as long as it looks like what might pass of as art...
