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TOPIC II
Pascal BaesThe French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’ ‘Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seem to question these transcendent views on cinematography...
Harrar, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist
GUIDE DE POLITESSE À L'ATTENTION DE NOS FORCES DE L'ORDRE
Charley CaseIn the streets of Tokyo, a young guy is handing out flyers to the passers by. We are not informed for what company or goal he is distributing these. However how polite, however how friendly – and hard! – he is trying, no one of the people passing by in this very busy avenue are accepting his pamphlets. Or is he succeeding in the end?...
TOPOLOGIC
Cel CrabeelsCrabeels’s work ‘Topologic’ records the prolonged contortions of a man attempting to put on, and to take off again, a piece of clothing. Here the body is used both as a terrain of experiment, and as a metaphor for artist’s labour of inhabiting space in general...
I LOVE RÜCKBAU
Aglaia KonradIn 2015, Aglaia Konrad filmed the demolition of the iconic headquarters of BNP Paribas Fortis bank on Warandeberg in the heart of Brussels. In a short space of time, demolition machines dismantled the modernist building from the 1970s, designed by (interior) architects Hugo Van Kuyck, Jules Wabbes, and Christophe Gevers...
DRIE BLINDE MUIZEN
Jef CornelisA report on three collectors of contemporary art: Martin Visser, Frits Becht and Hubert Peeters. They talk about their buying policy, how they built up their collections and their favourite works and artists. Original broadcast date: 18/06/1968 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles...
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...
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...
