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The Journey, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist
THE JOURNEY
Mira Sanders’The Journey’ is a hand-held camera shot of a giant cardboard model, consisting of images that refer to travelling. While some parts of the model move while filming, the camera itself slowly recedes, finally resulting in a frontal view of the whole model...
COWS
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte starts chasing the cows in a field, while clapping his hands. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...
THE OTHER SIDE
Peter DownsbroughIn his early work Downsbrough was already trying to generate syntax between place and meaning, language and space. ’The Other Side’ shows two aspects of the urbane surroundings: the anonymous commotion of the city centre and the intimate alienation within the flats. A street scene is followed by a long shot of a bickering man and woman, the camera keeps close after them...
HERE IS EVERYTHING
Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey DukeHere Is Everything presents itself as a message from The Future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit, spirit guides who explain that they’ve decided to speak to us via a contemporary art video because they understand this to be our highest form of communication. Their cheeky introduction, however, belies the complex set of ideas that fill the remainder of the film...
AND_04-2020
Peter DownsbroughIn: Place #3, Janvier/ January 2021, D’UNE PLACE L’AUTRE / CHANGING PLACES https://www.place-plateforme.com/place3/peter-downsbrough-and.html AND_04.2020 opens with a black screen and the sound of a man’s voice rising over the noise of traffic. His words are hard to distinguish, but their tones and cadence indicate they might be Chinese...
SCULPTURE HOUSE
Aglaia KonradIn the second half of the 1960s, the Belgian architect Jacques Gillet started the construction of the 'Sculpture House Project' (1967-1968), a private dwelling in the surroundings of Liège, Belgium. A synthesis of structure and form, the architect worked together with the sculptor Félix Roulin and the engineer René Greisch...
THE LEAVES
Messieurs DelmotteThe protagonist is cycling in the street. He slows down with his right foot, scraping on the dead leaves along the kerb. Collecting a small heap of leaves he comes to a halt. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
BEAVER SKULL MAGICK
Steve ReinkeTwo sections. In the first, the notorious internet video, Shake the Bear, in which a woman shoots and kills from a tree a bear and has sex on the body, is described and commented shot by shot. In the second section, archival footage of Grey Owl, a British man who famously fooled the Canadian nation pretending to be a Native Canadian, interacting with beavers is discussed....
untitled part 1: everything and nothing, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2002 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 1: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Jayce SalloumPart 1 of “untitled”, an ongoing videotape with no predetermined closure presents an intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S...
