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SAGA SACHETS, LÉGENDE DU VAL D’OURTHE ET DE L’AMBLÈVE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
Saga Sachets are light envelopes that are carried on air currents. They arrive shortly before spring at the Ourthe and Amblève valleys, where they land upside down. In this position, they murmur the stories that they have collected during the year to the planet. Our narrators attempt to uncover their mysterious origin....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 83. LITTLE MONKEYS

Steve Reinke
Those little monkeys raised in isolation with only a little chunk of fur stapled to wire mesh would have been far less maladjusted if it had been revealed to them that they were being watched and photographed....

ABOUT THE ANTICAPITALIST CARNIVAL

Charley Case
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection. Raoul Vaneigem About the Anticapitalistic Carnival illustrates the importance of the celebration in (r)evolutionary thinking...

UU

Teresa Cos
"Countless people die everyday, yet those who remain live as if they were immortal." * UU is a two-channel film and sound installation produced during a 12-month residency at the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels...

SCRUB SOLO 3: SOLILOQUY

Antonin De Bemels
Transforming a body through light and movement. Transforming the movement of the body through editing. Investigating the dynamics between sound and image, believing it to be a solid whole, an organic unity...

DOCUMENTA 4

Jef Cornelis
When Professor Arnold Bode thought up Documenta 1 in 1955, his first job was putting West-Germany, arisen from the ashes, back on the international map. When Documenta 4 takes place in 1968 the international art world is entangled in an authority crisis as well, as Roger Raveel indicates: ”worn threadbare”...

AVV-VVK, EEN SCENARIO / AVV-VVK, UN SCENARIO

Jan Vromman
How do you convince the government that they should grant your project on the theme “Alles voor Vlaanderen/Vlaanderen voor Christus” (“Everything for Flanders/Flanders for Christ”)? The decision-makers are not fundamentally opposed to it, but they want to see something to motivate their choice...

KARAOKE PLAY FUJI

Bernard Gigounon
A white line (a read-and-write head) scanning the landscape guides the musical composition. By using karaoke as an inspiration, and while invoking the tacky universe that in Japan surrounds Mountain Fuji, Gigounon pays homage to this cultural symbol....

RAW MATERIALS

Justin Bennett
Based on personal memories reaching way back into time, Raw Materials creates a resonant patchwork with fragments of field recordings originating from divergent cities like Fribourg (Switzerland), Barcelona or Beirut. With a pitch-black image as canvas – a technique that actively shifts the attention towards the sound – snow-white text lines appear one by one in typewriter style...

THE WHITE SHE-CAMEL

Xavier Christiaens
What if Ulysses, returning from his travels, had found only indecipherable shreds, shards, dark and shifting landscapes, splintered vestiges of his past? A disturbing disorder reigns all around, putting eyes and ears in a constant state of expectation, prisoners of these fragments of a reality so gripping, obtuse, impossible to avoid and yet misleading, fleeing and opaque...