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BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

SCISSORS

Messieurs Delmotte
Armed with two pairs of scissors, Messieurs Delmotte works on a tree’s new hair style....

BOARDGAME, OR FROM THE RANKS TO FIELD MARSHAL

Wendy Morris
From the Ranks to Field Marshal is a World War I game of obstacles and rewards. In this Union of South Africa adaption recruitment is micro-managed. Home is denied by the Land Act. Weapons are replaced by tools of labour. Accommodation is controlled within a system of closed compounds. Recruits board ships for France to the sound of S.E...

DEAR LORDE

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
Bone collector Maxine Rose, a 14 year old teenage girl, is looking for validation from her heroes, amongst them the primatologist Jane Goodall, bishop Desmond Tutu and the New Zealand teen pop Star Lorde. Offering them a gift of language, Maxine Rose stands for the desire to be visible and understood, not unlike the desire of an artist...

TREETS APPEARANCES

Messieurs Delmotte
In the park, Messieurs Delmotte plays hide-and-seek with a series of big, old trees. Will he ever come back in front of the camera? Who or what is he hiding from? This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE HOLY BLOOD

Koen Theys
The performers in this video are a group of naively dressed up biblical characters, taking part in one of Flanders’ processions of The Holy Blood. Theys captured the footage during a performance he organized in the Brussels art space ETABLISSEMENT D’EN FACE...

WHERE WAS I NOW?

Ken Kobland
A room in Brooklyn, New York, perhaps the room of the artist itself? The space reminds us somewhat of Hoppers famous interior paintings. When the clock is about to strike midnight, images start to appear on the walls of the appartement. Marlene Dietrich on the cover of Life Magazine, Superman, Nikita Kruschev, Laurel and Hardy...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 52. LOVE LETTER TO DOUG

Steve Reinke
I think it’s true what they say in all those songs: falling in love requires overvaluing the tiny ways in which one individual varies from another....

TWEEDE INTERNATIONAAL SALON DER AVANT-GARDE GALERIJEN LAUSANNE

Jef Cornelis
On his way back from Venice, Jef Cornelis stopped in Lausanne to film the secon International Salon of Pilot Galleries organized at the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts on the initiative of its director and curator René Berger. The idea for it had occurred to him three years earlier: "I had this totally naive idea: how to get to know contemporary art on an ongoing basis.....

KOEN THEYSLAND

Koen Theys
In 2008, video artist Walter Verdin was asked by CANVAS, a Belgian public TV network, to make a daily opener for the channel, to be broadcasted just before the 8 o’clock news. He proposed to use excerpts of his Title Safe project (link: www.titlesafe.be), which was a cooperation with many other video artists, amongst who Koen Theys...