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Messieurs Delmotte
In this series Delmotte explores the subversive power of excrements, vulgarity and blasphemy. Content: ’The Bridge 1’, ’The Fuck’, ’Urinal and bread’, ’The Beers’, ’The Bridge 2’, ’Wax Candles’ and ’Snuff Coq’....

RAPT & HAPPY

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
’Rapt & Happy’  reminds of a diary, secretly enjoyed but having been let lying around by Vey Duke herself, waiting for it to be found...

DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y

Johan Grimonprez
The guideline in Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y is the unofficial chronicle of world-wide aeroplane hijacking. Its blending of archival footage and personal home movie imagery sets out to investigate the media politics of our contemporary catastrophe culture...

UNTITLED PART 9: THIS TIME

Jayce Salloum
Out of the mouths of rural boys, finding the incomparable Mulla Nasrudin in Afghanistan. After my first year of art school in San Francisco in 1978, I quit, and headed to the Banff School of Fine Arts to do a year long residency program. The instructor Hu Hohn got me hooked on Sufi stories such as, "The Exploits and Subtleties of the incomparable Mulla Nasrudin"...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 41. PIONEER

Steve Reinke
Recently I attended my maternal grandparents’ 55th wedding anniversary. I became a little sad thinking how a fully articulated spectrum of sexual pleasure had been denied to them....

WINDY APPEARANCE

Messieurs Delmotte
In front of his camera, Messieurs Delmotte poses in a park. With precision and highly concentrated, he licks cigarette rolling papers that he sticks onto his face. The wind plays an important role in this remarkable performance. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 22012009

Mira Sanders
The fourth 'Silent Letter' was written on January 22nd, 2009. While we see people playing volleyball on a beach, the narrator reflects on water, and how it changes from rain, moving through man's world and back to cloud again. In the end she refers to the seaside, where clouds are best viewed...

CHAPITRE 2 - NOW WON

Charley Case
The DVD project NOW WON elaborates on the seven-part video project Entre (2001 - 2004), in which Case explores the themes of duality and human interrelations. “When the principles of past and future are abandoned, the present can be fully embraced. Time is suspended. Duality becomes unity, symbolised by a spherical shape. Opposites meet in a balance...

CAPSULAR

Herman Asselberghs
Ciudad Autonoma de Ceuta is a Spanish enclave on the coast of Morocco. Formerly administered by the Spanish province of Cadiz, it is now an autonomous community with a parliament and a president of its own.  Ceuta, along with Spain, is now  part of the European Union...

CONTAINER 03: DE PUNTZAK VAN HEINE

Jef Cornelis
“What is it with history: providence, coincidence, irony or fate?”. This is a quote from one of the letters that have been selected to be read out in the letter project ‘De Puntzak van Heine’. The project is extended through the medium of television, reflecting on a number of inherent questions...