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BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]
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...
Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists
AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS
Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson’Avant-garde Citizens’ steps into the lives and identities of refugees in the world today, using the Netherlands as a departure point. The project is a series of video-portraits of people who have become enmeshed in the viciously complicated and torturously slow Dutch immigration and asylum system...
NON STOP DESIGN
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tries to saw the legs of a chair while sitting on it....
EXTINGUISHERS
Messieurs DelmotteDelmotte empties the contents of two fire-extinguishers on his costume. When the job is finished, he wipes the white stains off his clothes and walks away, leaving behind a powdery trail. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...
THE WORLDWIDE WEB OF SORROWS
Koen TheysThe video contains a few hundred excerpts of clips found on YouTube, showing women trying to grab the attention of the viewer by crying in front of their webcam, sitting alone in their apartment. Some of them are silently sobbing, while others are loudly crying out their despair...
MAX BILL
Jef CornelisMax Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...
THE CLOWN AND THE HOLE
Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle NystThe theme of this video is the observation of a 'chantoir’, a popular expression designating a water hole in a prairie of which the terrain is composed of limestone. The action of the water on the lime contributes to the formation of holes of varying depths. The story presents a character that wonders about the origin of the hole and tries to communicate with it by playing the trumpet....
THE BISHOP & THE DOCTOR
Jan Dietvorst - Roy VillevoyeThe Bishop & The Doctor is a splitscreen projection of two synchronously presented events both taking place in the Asmat in the Indonesian province of Papua, former Dutch New Guinea, concerning the activities of two typical exponents of the White Man’s Burden. In the right part a German Doctor operates on a Papua in what almost looks like a home, in order to treat a lump in his face...
ARRANGEMENT IN GREY
Emmanuel Van der AuweraThe title Arrangement in Grey is an allusion to the painter James Abbott Whistler, who used it to emphasize the ascendance of abstract over figurative composition...
DANIEL BUREN (PALAIS ROYAL)
Jef CornelisFor the installation Les Deux Plateaux (The Two Levels, 1985-1986), Daniel Buren (°1938) placed a grid of 260 black and white striped cylinders of different heights in the elegant courtyard of the Palais Royal in Paris...
