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PERFORMING THE BORDER

Ursula Biemann
’Performing the Border’ is a video essay set in the Mexican-US border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment, located right across the border from El Paso, Texas. ’Performing the Border’ looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space constituted through the performance and management of gender relations...

THREE ACT PLAY

Steve Reinke
Condensed animation of a short text....

LOOKING BACKWARD(S)

Ken Kobland
A 10-part series with preface. Reflecting, ruminating, remembering, lamenting, drawing and living with the past and the present... Age, I suppose. LOOKING BACKWARD(s)... ‘Backward’ both ways, behind and awkwardly. Years of talking to myself, arguing, in an invisible courtroom. The ideas, fears, despairs that appear again and again...

EVENTO

Marie André
André brings her minimal yet elegantly sensual aesthetic to this interpretation of dance for video. She writes that Evento is "a spectacle of dance filmed within the natural decor of a hangar. [It explores] opposition, the duality of two dancers in a variety of architectural movements that emphasize the dancers' strength...

JACQUES CHARLIER

Jef Cornelis
The Belgian artist Jacques Charlier (°1939) worked for several years at the Provincial Technical Service (STP) in Liège. This experience influenced his artistic practice as he started to decontextualize STP photographs and documents – for example of images of the town, roads, drain pipes and water supply schemes - and presented them in different exhibition projects...
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IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT IF YOU COME AGAIN, ONLY NEXT TIME DON’T BRING ANY GEAR, EXCEPT A TEA KETTLE…

Johan Grimonprez
The multi-channel installation ‘It will be all right if you come again, only next time don’t bring any gear, except a tea kettle…’ (1994-2004) explores the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Western imperialism...

A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CLARITY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Teenagers are watching a video on internet while videotaping their own reactions. Fragments after fragments, this loose community express their comments and witness a deep trouble in an ever more invading off-camera space. We are caught between two images: the missing one being watched and the image of the spectator. This ultra thin angle opens a breach on the multiple dimensions of dismay...

RALFS FARBEN

Lukas Marxt
“We can’t use the same light, we have to use completely new keys with completely new light and even these can be found to a limited extent,” says Ralf at one point...

PAPERS

Yun Tien
For migrants documents are essential. They determine if you can stay or have to go back. I was wondering how much documents we need to cross a border? I film administrative documents from different people. It’s their paper story about applying for a foreign residence....