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Steve ReinkePart home-made science (before it became doctrine), part animated video reverie, Reinke’s brief and episodic compression is an incendiary release which opens by announcing the death of the reader, of any audience capable of pulling its fragments together, or better, of dissolving into its tissues, of allowing the body to change shape, to identify, for instance, with an insect. Or a stone....
DE 10 SCHILDERIJEN VAN ETIENNE ELIAS
Jef CornelisProduced in the context of the Flemish public cultural organisation "Openbaar Kunstbezit", the Belgian painter Etienne Elias presents his ten favorite paintings in Flemish art collections. Each presentation is unique, humorous and creatively critical about cultural institutions, producers, buyers and onlookers....
INTRODUCTION TO THE END OF AN ARGUMENT / SPEAKING FOR ONESELF, SPEAKING FOR OTHERS
Elia Suleiman - Jayce SalloumJayce Salloum and Elia Suleiman take a shot at the western media’s image of the Arab world...
DE ACHTERKAMER (DANIËL ROBBERECHTS)
Jef CornelisDaniël 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...
AS…
Peter DownsbroughA video triptych (‘And’, ‘Here’, ‘As...) ‘fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ‘La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France, autumn 2004)...
PROOF OF LIFE
Herman AsselberghsThe interior of an open, empty space: the frontier between ’inside’ and ’out side’ is slight. The only sign of human presence is to be found as a voice-over: a male voice recalling horrifying TV-images, a popular disaster film, a long-term imprisonment. The title alludes to the diplomatic negotiating jargon used during the video recording of a live hostage...
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 .....
LOUISE
Charley Case‘Louise’, described by the artist as "ils font l’amour, ils se battent" ("they make love, they fight each other")....
THE WHITE SHE-CAMEL
Xavier ChristiaensWhat 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...
