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NEDERLANDSE ARCHITECTUUR. HET NIEUWE BOUWEN 1920 - 1940
Jef CornelisA short reflection on Dutch architecture between 1920 and 1940, following and based on an exhibition in the van Abbe museum in Eindhoven. The period of the so-called ‘new building’, with such prominent figures as Rietveld Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, evolved around an architecture which took the critical issue of the living environment as a starting point...
untitled part 3b: (as if) beauty never ends ..., Jayce Salloum, 1982-2002 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 3B: (AS IF) BEAUTY NEVER ENDS ...
Jayce SalloumAmbient images, orchids blooming, plants growing, clouds and water are superimposed over raw footage of the carnage at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon after the 1982 massacre, with the voiceover of Abdel Majid Fadl Ali Hassan (a 1948 refugee living in Bourg El Barajneh camp) recounting a story told by the rubble of his home in Palestine....
UNIDENTIFIED EMOTICON
Messieurs DelmotteUnidentified emoticons is a series of works in which Messieurs Delmotte perform a sequence of meaningless actions. Content: 'Head with the Cats', 'Vegetables Are Vegetables', 'Newspapers Man', 'Confettis Foetus Man', 'Flabby Cat', 'Reversed Garden', 'Unidentified Air', 'Simple X-Dog' and 'Shooting of Fire'....
LITTLE FIGURES
Sarah Vanagt"Three statues on the Mont des Arts in Brussels: a king, a queen and a medieval knight. Three newcomers to Brussels: a Philippino boy, a Rwandan refugee girl and a Moroccan boy. Three statues, three children; an imaginary conversation. " (https://www.balthasar.be) In ’Little Figures’ Sarah Vanagt once again plays with her passion for history, perspective and social commitment...
WAITING FOR THE SECRET
Meggy RustamovaWaiting for a Secret takes it starting point from a picture, revealing its secrets by zooming into the various details. Gradually, the picture becomes alive, raising issues such as isolation, linguistical confusion, pixelisation and the suggestion of movement within a still image....
POWER CUT
Sarah VanagtThree boys, Tonton (15), Dodo (14) and Daniel (12), took a series of photos and made short videos during the elections in Goma, Eastern Congo. With the assistance of the Congolese filmmaker brothers Petna and Sekombi Katondolo, the children wandered the streets of Goma with cameras they had been sent from Brussels...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 90. VIDEO FOR INTELLECTUALS
Steve ReinkeSometimes it appears we are reaching a period where our senses and minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation....
TASTE THE WORLD
Wendy Morris‘Taste the World’ explores tourist notions of the ‘Third World’ as a playground for Europe. The title is derived from a promotional brochure in which travellers are encouraged to “taste the world”. The subtext makes clear that this ‘world’ is mainly there for the Eurostractrates with their unbridled leisure time and financial means...
