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OPERA AND STEEL
Grace SchwindtOpera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...
ON L'APPELAIT PRÉSIDENT
Marie AndréA portrait of Alexandre André, one of the historical leaders of the Belgian Socialist party and the filmmaker’s uncle. Born in 1897 in the Borinage’s heart, he recalls different aspects of his political career, his childhood memories of Vincent Van Gogh as well as his relationship with King Baudoin....
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US
Jan Locus'The Distance Between Us' takes its starting point in some audio cassettes artist and photographer Jan Locus received from a Moroccan family in Molenbeek a few years ago. Probably going back to the early 1980s, the cassettes contain an oral correspondence between families in Brussels and Morocco. These anonymous audio letters bear witness to the pain of those who stayed at home...
VOMIT STAR
Steve Reinke - John MarriottIn 1997, John Marriott proposed ’Vomit Star’, a six-foot star constructed from fake vomit, for his solo exhibition at the Power Plant Toronto. The project was rejected, regrets lingered. “Marriott and Reinke demonstrate the affirmative value of domestic voodoo in this descent into crime-scene-glitter-porn (which is presumably one word in German)...
UNE TENTATIVE DE DÉFINIR LA NOTION DE TRANSITION
Mira SandersAn attempt at thinking the exhibition space in earlier and contemporary times. A drawing and thinking that are superimposing themselves and that blur the view of the spectator. We travel in the movie through different space and time transitions. We realise that the act of listing does not define transition(s), it is the act of moving that does....
Storyteller, Nicolas Provost, 2010
STORYTELLER
Nicolas Provost’Storyteller’ takes found stock footage of the cosmopolitan skyline, recomposing and mirroring the images to create a slick artificiality reminiscent of science fiction. At first glance, the viewer might think of space ships floating slowly through the universe, but quickly ’Storyteller’ reveals its source: images of downtown Las Vegas shot from a helicopter...
THE DOLL
Messieurs DelmotteBy using a rudimentary trompe-l'oeil technique, Messieurs Delmotte transforms himself into an inflatable doll. In front of the camera, we see him slowly deflate. This early work is part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....
YOURS,
Eva Giolo - Rebecca Jane Arthur - Katja Mater - Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat - Maaike NeuvilleA group of artists are invited to be inspired by the work of the well-known, Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman, specifically her film News from Home (1976). The busy city of New York serves as the film’s main character. Meanwhile, we hear Akerman’s voice reading letters from her mother in Brussels...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 21. SQUEEZING SORROW FOR AN ASHTRAY
Steve Reinke"We know the air is filled with vibrations that we can’t hear. In ’Variations VII’, I tried to use sounds from that inaudible environment. But we can’t consider environment as an object. We know that it’s a process. While in the case of the ashtray, we are indeed dealing with an object...
LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR MAG [FRENCH VERSION]
Jef Cornelis’Les Vacances de Monsieur MAG’ tracks the development of René Magritte’s body of work, and it also sheds a light on the persona of the artist, as well as on his views on being an artist...
