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VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): COMPOSITION TRIANGULAIRE
Jacques LennepA short formal study on triangular images, shot in the woods and featuring the artist as a performer. The work is conceptual: the camera 'scans' the surroundings showing triangles formed by the legs of the artist, the branches of a tree, a stone, etcetera....
NO PROBLEMS WITH FREAKS
Hänzel & GretzelThe various characters of legendary Tod Browning’s movies re-cast in a thrilling suspense. A freaky jig....
THE VIDEO MESSAGE
Roy VillevoyeIn The Video Message Omama talks about what happened to him after he collaborated on the development of the life-size, realistic statue that Roy Villevoye made of him: Madonna. The core of the story is that by participating in the project he sold his soul. Not in the figurative sense as we mean it, but literally. By selling this reproduction of his likeness he lost himself...
UMBRELLA [PART OF FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 1]
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte is crossing a shopping street, opens his umbrella and tosses it over his shoulder onto the street. The camera stays on the object, letting us admire the reactions of the passers-by. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
THE INTRUDER
Vincent MeessenIn this video bearing the programmatic title ‘The Intruder’, we see the artist—clad head to toe in an outfit fashioned of white cotton blossoms—strolling along the bustling streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The camera, which does not long remain undetected (and unexposed), accompanies the performer while simultaneously recording the reactions of the observers...
MOUTH AND RED CHICKENS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tosses around chestnut chickens with his mouth. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
Silent China, 2007, Mira Sanders © the artist
SILENT CHINA
Mira SandersFor ’Silent China’, Mira Sanders did not want to capture images, but sound. While the image remains black, subtitles give us a fragmented impression of a journey through China, including the exact place and date of the recordings. The video was presented together with a folder on which several drawings, conceived as a description of noise, had been printed...
THE OTHER
Peter DownsbroughA keen observer of the forces that shape society, Peter Downsbrough portrayed those forces elliptically in his work, particularly in the photographs and films he made in urban settings. THE OTHER is one of Downsbrough’s shortest films. It is also the last one. As concise and suggestive as a haiku, the work opens viewers’ imaginations to possibilities unexplored and worlds unknown...
