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THE OTHER SIDE
Peter DownsbroughIn his early work Downsbrough was already trying to generate syntax between place and meaning, language and space. ’The Other Side’ shows two aspects of the urbane surroundings: the anonymous commotion of the city centre and the intimate alienation within the flats. A street scene is followed by a long shot of a bickering man and woman, the camera keeps close after them...
HOMMAGE À … III
Lili DujourieThe five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. In Hommage à … III, Dujourie develops a recurrent strategy of her work: drawing attention to the space beyond the visual field...
THE PERFECT WAVE
Nicolas ProvostThe Perfect Wave is a fascinating looped video of a surfer who keeps going and going on what indeed looks like a perfect wave. It’s a metaphor for what the artist calls the human desire for an endless orgasm....
CONFUSING DRUM
Jan LocusIn Belfast the night before July 12th – the annual Protestant celebration – massive bonfires are lit in many Protestant neighborhoods.These towering structures, built months in advance, are mostly made up of wooden pallets and car tires with some reaching over 30 metres tall...
JUMP
Shelly SilverIn JUMP, Shelly Silver placed a static camera in a working-class neighbourhood. Accompanied by a jazzy soundtrack, on the background, we observe modest houses, an old factory and local inhabitants walking around. On the foreground, a group of children attempts to appear in the camera frame and enjoys to jump in and out of the image....
A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLARITY
Emmanuel Van der AuweraTeenagers are watching a video on internet while videotaping their own reactions. Fragments after fragments, this loose community express their comments and witness a deep trouble in an ever more invading off-camera space. We are caught between two images: the missing one being watched and the image of the spectator. This ultra thin angle opens a breach on the multiple dimensions of dismay...
CHARLES VANDENHOVE: LE GYMNASE SART-TILMAN
Jef CornelisWe get an exterior view of the gymnasium on the Sart-Tilman Campus at the Liege University (the architect was Charles Van Denhove) and interior views of the gymnasium, gymnastics hall, corridors and indoor swimming pool....
IJSBREKER 15: GOOCHELEN VERSUS PARAPSYCHOLOGIE
Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Freddy Coppens - Mark De GeestPriceless jokes, scientifically proven facts, well-intended or malicious manipulations of our consciousness, or artistic tricks? There isn’t much difference...
