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STANDARD TRIANGULATION
Adam LeechPresented in an ingenious mise-en-scene, Adam Leech introduces the concept of triangulation. Such a “trialogue” can describe social, as well as legal, governmental or family situations better than a dialogue. A jazz singer is shown. While she performs jazz standards, she’s distracted by something off screen...
L'OBJET
Jacques Louis NystThe discovery of a child’s toy: a small blue metallic coffee pot, presents a complete enigma to an archaeologist of the future. The scientist no longer has any information at his disposal on Twentieth Century civilization. Patiently he attempts to unveil the significance of the object...
A Message from Space in my Backyard, 2008-2009, Krassimir Terizev © the artist
A MESSAGE FROM SPACE IN MY BACKYARD
Krassimir Terziev"It is far from rational from the perspective of single human life to imagine that a piece of space shuttle, after being launched some 20 years ago, would hit a woman in her backyard in California, or a piece of derelict Russian satellite, after orbiting the earth for a several decades, would reach its final destination in the desert of Australia in front of local shepherds...
THE MEASURE OF DISORDER
Teresa CosThe Measure of Disorder follows the trail of the Austrian scientist Ludwig Boltzmann, who is know for his ground-breaking findings about the phenomenon of entropy, but also for his tragic suicide in the village of Duino, not far from the Adriatic town of Trieste...
HOMMAGE À … II
Lili DujourieThe five videos of Hommage à … deal with the same theme as repetition-in-difference, as a continual tracing and retracing, of the figure fold and unfold in the visual field. In Hommage à .....
PROVISORY OBJECT 01
Edith DekyndtBetween 1997 and 2004 Edith Dekyndt created a triptych of three short videos in which a soap bubble is stretched between two hands. This is the first part of the triptych, featuring the artists own hands. The shape of the iridescent soap bubble changes and reflects the light in various ways. Using simple techniques, Dekyndt appeals to a poetic dimension....
STUDY OF GESTURES
Eva GioloTwo hands fold meticulously and gently caress a shirt. Study of gestures is an exploration of a cultural heritage, traces and resurgences through gestures. The evocations of body memory, conscious or unconscious....
JONAS
Olivier DekegelA short portrait of and homage to the legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas, generally considered as one of the major exponents of the avant-garde movement in the American cinematic landscape of the 1950s and ‘60s...
MARCEL BROODTHAERS: MUSÉE D’ART DU XVIIE SIÈCLE
Jef CornelisViews of the 17th century ’Eagles Department’ in Antwerp: façade, wooden crates, postcards of 17th-century works on the walls and a small garden. Marcel Broodthaers is whitewashing the inscription ’Département des Aigles’ written on the fence in the garden...
