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Avant-garde citizens: Mpia’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: MPIA’S STORY

Ólafur Ólafsson - Libia Castro
Mpia came to the Netherlands from the Congo. Against the backdrop of the Dutch landscape, his rhythmic, musical account is performed both facing away from and turned towards the camera. Addressing the audience directly, he asks questions without answers, forming a plea to Europe and Belgium in particular. Half-sung, half-spoken, repeated phrases and motifs are woven into a web of hope and despair....

MARIA GAAT NAAR SCHOOL

Edurne Rubio - Maria Jerez
The children of V-tex school in Kortrijk, teach Dutch to Maria Jerez. During three weeks the roles of education change: 33 children teach and one adult learns. During this change of roles, the matter is not the transfer of symmetrical power, but the establishment of a fragile situation for all parties, a space where nobody knows....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 80. TALK SHOW

Steve Reinke
Every human is exactly interchangeable. By this I don’t mean that everybody is born equal, or anything as confusing as that. I simply mean that we are exactly interchangeable. Perhaps this is most demonstrable on a genetic level…...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 47. DREAM WORK

Steve Reinke
We have been encouraged to analyse our sexless dreams as being latently sexual, full of repressed writhing bodies and blood-gorged organs. This project, this analysis is referred to as dream work. It assumes latent though is transformed by the processes of condensation and displacement into the manifest content of the dream...

FACE À FACE

Eric Pauwels
‘Face à face’ is considered by many to be nothing more than a “simple recording” of a performance by Michèle Anne De Mey. The spirit of the performance is certainly sublimely reproduced, but there is more. ‘Face à face’ is to some extent the synthesis of Pauwels’s earlier experiments...

LOW TIDE

Lukas Marxt
A glacier. Icebergs. Floating icebergs. Cold fog gliding through the folds since eras. There is not much to see. As there is hardly something. Actually nothing. One speaks of polar bears and goes ashore only armed. One speaks of the cold and goes below. But actually there is only water. An element in variation. Water, ice and fog. Can you see anything? Something different? I don´t think so...

RAOUL DE KEYSER

Jef Cornelis
A view on Raoul de Keyser’s exhibition in the contemporary art section of the Royal Museum in Antwerp: views of the museum, entrance hall and rooms housing the Raoul de Keyser exhibition. Raoul de Keyser strolls with Jef Cornelis across a football pitch in Deinze talking about the influence of football on his paintings. We see a few paintings on football pitch themes....

PROPELLER

Roy Villevoye
Somewhere in the jungle op Papua lies an old propeller.It is an important object for the small Papuan tribe that lives with it.How did it get there?Through the stories of the sister of a deceased American missionary, a Papuan cultural chief and an aged American former pilot the enigma of the propeller is slowly being unraveled in this film...

IJSBREKER 17: VAN TOETERS EN BLAZERS

Jef Cornelis - Stefaan Decostere - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys
For the very first time the Flemish public broadcasting network lifts a corner of the veil which surrounds one of the main aspects of amateur art: the world of local musical associations, symphonic bands and brass bands. From Dutch Limburg a live report is transmitted of a large-scale symphonic band festival. At the same time the brass band Midden-Brabant responds over another satellite uplink...

ROLAND VAN DEN BERGHE

Jef Cornelis
An interview with Belgian visual artist Roland Van Den Berghe, as part of the exhibition ‘Free as the Air and Function’. Van den Berghe, wearing a Queen Fabiola mask, discusses the way icons and doctrines are created in an artificial way and the role art plays to break through these straitjackets...