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UNIDENTIFIED AIR
Messieurs DelmotteA short video performance where we see Messieurs Delmotte, standing in front of a house, holding an inflatable dolphin in his arms. After a few seconds, an electrical pump starts to inflate the plastic animal. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...
TRAVELOGUE 1, 2, 3
Stefaan DecostereA series of peculiar accounts of journeys in Brussels, presented as a voyage through archival and real imagery, and through the memories and reflections this imagery invokes. 'Artificial promenades' where travellings between views (seeing) is constantly being metamorphosed and developed into travelling between points of view (ways of seeing)...
WHYMPER: DE SCHETSENDE BERGBEKLIMMER
Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter1865: A London publisher commissions Whymper to make some sketches of a still virginal town in Switzerland: Matterhorn. Whymper is tempted by the challenging beauty of the mountain and he decides to conquer it in the company of some experienced climbers and with his sketchbook under his arm. Everything goes as planned, but when he descends the rope breaks and 4 of the company of 7 fall down...
DOUGLAS PARK'S 'READING ALOUD'
Cel CrabeelsDouglas Park's 'Reading Aloud' was set up as a performance and collaboration between Cel Crabeels, Douglas Park and Nico Dockx. The video was shot at and produced by Cel Crabeels for the show 25 JAAR LOKAAL 01: 'PAULO POST FUTURUM', 16 June 2007 to 2 September 2007" at Breda The Netherlands. This video is part of an ongoing and expanding archive project...
DRIE MINUTEN, RINGAUTOBAAN, TREKKEN, ROLTRAP, STOP STAP STOP STAP...
Filip FrancisThree minutes of a close-up on a clock. Suddenly, and unexpectedly, a close-up on the white lines of a highway appears. Speed and minimalism melt together. The next image is that of a labourer, lugging a pile of cables. The movement of an escalator in a subway station follows and finally the flickering of a traffic light for pedestrians changes from red to green and back again...
REPÈRES EXTATIQUES
Hänzel & GretzelLies can bring happiness if you realise they are real! A series of panels where you can meet the ever-ecstatic Teresa de Avila, the mightily phlegmatic Anubis and other perverted figures of a strange third mind world....
DIE LORELEY
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenIn this computer-animation, Van Kerckhoven links together portrait paintings she made between 1987 and 1990 of 54 people that visited her unexpectedly. These people are acquaintances, friends and relatives. She linked each person chronologically to some words of the poem ‘Die Loreley’ of Heinrich Heine (1797- 1856)...
A.M./P.M.
Herman AsselberghsThere is no visible human presence in ’a.m./p.m’. Photos of cosmopolitan city landscapes are systematically scanned along with display views of office blocks, flats, dark corners, illuminated windows and skyscrapers. On the soundtrack one can hear a woman’s voice, talking about herself and the world, about images of today, about a journey...
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST GEEN KRITIEK? 3. WANNEER HET KUNSTBEZIT EEN PRESTIGEZAAK IS
Jef CornelisPart of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art NOT Criticism?", ’When art collection is not a matter of prestige’ is an interview with Frans Baudouin, the curator of the Rubens museum in Antwerp, on the occasion of the acquisition of a high-priced self-portrait by Rubens...
