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HET GOUDEN KALF / LE VEAU D'OR
Jan Vromman“Het Gouden Kalf” (“The Golden Calf”) is the report of a performance held in 2002. During the “Top of Laeken”, an anti-globalist manifestation in Brussels, the Golden Calf - a sculpture on a carrying board in true size - was carried in a procession to the European Parliament. The Golden Calf is, of course, the symbol for the adoration of power and money...
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...
STAGING SILENCE (2)
Hans Op de BeeckHans Op de Beeck's film Staging Silence (2) is based around abstract, archetypal settings that lingered in the memory of the artist as the common denominator of the many similar public places he has experienced. The video images themselves are both ridiculous and serious, just like the eclectic mix of pictures in our minds...
THE CORRIDOR
Sarah VanagtFor 5 days Sarah Vanagt and cinematographer Annemarie Lean-Vercoe followed a donkey during its weekly visits to old people in nursing homes in South-England. From home to home, from room to room. Each time the donkey was welcomed warmly, with greetings, songs, strokes, childhood stories, poems, and laughter...
DECORATION
Florian GwinnerIn Decoration the camera spins around its own axis. Different arrangements merge. Plants, materials, electrical devices. A mini evolution of the constructedness of the world....
CURFUW BELLS
Cel CrabeelsDuring medieval times curfew bells were rung to warn of impending doom or possible hostile threats. During peacetime the curfew bell introduced the night and signaled the time to extinguish fires and go to bed. Curfew Bells restages bell towers as a bygone marker of time. Before the invention of the mechanic clock it was bell towers that created a shared public time...
PULSATION
Pieter GeenenImprinted on the mountains of Northern Cyprus, the landmark of a Turkish Cypriot flag identifies the landscape and claims the land. As it is ever present and visible from almost every part of the island, this flag is acting as a continuous provocation to the Greek Cypriots on the other side of the UN buffer zone since the military division of Cyprus...
JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969
Jef CornelisDocumentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...
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...
