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SO HAPPY
Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel BonnemaisonJoëlle de la Casinière herself, barefoot against an abandoned and ravaged metropolitan background, promotes her book ’Absolument nécessaire’ (‘An Emergency Book’) during an interview/happening with a broadcast delay. “Nothing is true, everything is permitted”. In the end the books are covered in graffiti like subway carriages....
HOMMAGE À … III
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 … III, Dujourie develops a recurrent strategy of her work: drawing attention to the space beyond the visual field...
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....
SONG OF HOMECOMING
Alex SchuurbiersFilmmaker Alex Schuurbiers became captivated by a small house on a French island, a mystical place hidden between the waves. In Song of Homecoming, she talks to the house and its inhabitant in an attempt to find kinship and connection....
TRAVELOGUE 4: COMING FROM THE WRONG SIDE
Stefaan DecostereAlthough this Travelogue is essentially a touristic program, Stefaan Decostere’s view introduces no peaceful landscape. The area, Banff, is presented as a recycled product of a generic past, where archetypal images are layered to create the illusion of the passage of time...
1937 [INSTALLATION, ENGLISH VERSION]
Nora Martirosyan"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...
WAX CANDLES
Messieurs DelmotteIn a church Delmotte cannot resist to blow out all of the candles. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
THE BRIDGE (1)
Monsieur DelmotteDelmotte hangs over a bridge and shits on the highway. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
THE VASES
Messieurs DelmotteIn an idyllic green landscape, vases seem to be growing from the trees. Messieurs Delmotte however is up for destroying them. Simply shot with a fixed camera, this performance is as humorous as it is appaling at the very same time. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...
