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POLYFONISTEN DEEL 2

Stefaan Decostere
Polyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In Polyfonisten, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...

ET / C

Peter Downsbrough
With his videos Downsbrough creates natural portraits of urban environments. Everyday surroundings are observed, dissected and transformed into architectural illustrations, with a proper sense of order and chaos. In long, steady shots and travellings space is reduced and abstracted into minimalist constructions, simultaneously they assume identifiability...

IN WAKING HOURS

Sarah Vanagt
With the publication of the Ophthalmographia in 1632, the Amsterdam physician Vopiscus Fortunatus Plempius sheds new light on the age-old question of how seeing works. His answer is an invitation to experiment: Enter with me into a darkened room and prepare the eye of a freshly slaughtered cow. He emphasizes that anyone may carry out this experiment, at home, "demanding little effort and expense...

MARCEL BROODTHAERS – HERMAN JACOBS

Jef Cornelis
Marcel Broodthaers is exhibiting his work made from 1963 to 1971 at the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp. Herman Jacobs prepares for an exhibition of his work at the De Zwarte Panter Gallery, also in Antwerp....

ON SCULPTURES

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 2...

LIMBO

Laurent Van Lancker
In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. (Canto Primo, Inferno, Dante) The starting point of the project is the 5 channels video installation Limbo that physically aims to stage, through a vortex movement so dear to the Italian poet Dante Alighieri, the perpetual drive of migration...

GEESTELIJKE GEZONDHEIDSZORG (2): PRATEN MET PATIËNTEN

Jef Cornelis
Original broadcast date: 04/03/1975...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 74. APOLOGY

Steve Reinke
I don’t know why I am showing this video to you. I am sure it is a failure and should be removed from ’The Hundred Videos’. Indeed, I have deleted many videos which were more interesting, more worthwhile, and more deserving of your time and patience....

ART SECURITY SERVICE

Bernard Mulliez
In the spring of 2005, the property developer Robelco, gave wide media coverage to a project for "revitalizing" the Ravenstein Galleries in Brussels. With the intention of "improving the image" of the Galleries, they invited several art galleries to temporarily occupy the many empty commercial spaces...

BRUSSEL, SCHERVEN VAN GELUK

Jef Cornelis
’Brussels, fragments of happiness’ is no ordinary documentary on the Belgian capital...