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WE WERE MADE FOR LOVING YOU, BABIES ! YOU WERE MADE FOR LOVING US !

Messieurs Delmotte
Registration of a performance by Messieurs Delmotte in Warsaw at the Galeria Sztuki, the 27th May 2011. As the title of the piece refers to the famous song ‘I was made for loving you’ by KISS, Delmotte wears make up very much like the leadsinger of this glamrock band...

FOSSILIZATION

Kurt D'Haeseleer
The video ‘Fossilization’ was produced as part of the ‘Memory Lane’ project, commissioned in 2005 by the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The traditional idea of soundtracks as translation and extension of moving images was reversed for the occasion: five video makers were requested to produce a work based on a composition by David Shea...

VIOLIN FASE

Eric Pauwels - Eric Pauwels - Eric Pauwels
A solo in two movements; dance and camera. Eric Pauwels twirls the camera around the body of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. What we see is not the geometrical and minimalist choreographic structure, but a possessed woman, bathing in sweat, exploring the boundaries of physical exhaustion. A solo in two movements: the dance and the camera. Four uninterrupted takes...

ROND EST LE MONDE

Olivier Dekegel
In the company of a mule and a Super8 camera, a filmmaker walks through the world enchanted by the beauty of all things. Inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi's "Praise of the Creatures", an enlightened and candid contemplation driven by the changing light of seasons. This film is an invitation to a voyage, a voyage around the world with the most simple and humble of all animals, the donkey...

FOR THE RECORD

Fleur Khani - Ailien Reyns
This audiovisual work offers a contemporary insight in the lives of people in a metropole and researches more specifically the different forms of proximity. Through the images as well as the voice-over, the film aims to reformulate the question of proximity in contemporary urban society...

DE ACHTERKAMER (DANIËL ROBBERECHTS)

Jef Cornelis
Daniël Robberechts (who passed away in 1992) fully applied himself to writing after his studies in mathematics. In 1960 he was already a full-time writer, but not a ’professional’ one: without the financial support of his wife, Cécile Faniel, he would not have been able to write...

GENTLEMEN TROUBLES

Messieurs Delmotte
This video was realized for the performance 'Problem Child' in 2013. Messieurs Delmotte worked together with Mark Bombastik as a performer and Jessica Broscheit for the realisation, which resulted in a series of performances that were acted out in public space in and around Hamburg, Germany...

DATURA SADHU

Charley Case
A Hindu man is making a skull spin round on a stick. This macabre scene reveals Datura Sadhu as an in-your-face memento mori....

SPEECH BUBBLE

Adam Leech
The main concerns of Adam Leech’s work are the semantics of voice versus speech and the political engineering of public space and community. Speech Bubble began as an investigation into the bankruptcy of the Belgian high-tech speech recognition company, Lernout & Hauspie...

METAMORFOSE VAN HET OBJECT (1910-1970 PSK BRUSSEL)

Jef Cornelis
In 1971 the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels presented an overview of modern and contemporary art at a large retrospective with sixty years of visual arts. The subtitle of the exhibition was Art and Anti-Art. It featured work by famous Belgian and international artists, including René Magritte, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp and many others...