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ACHTERBERG CONVERSION MODULES

Steve Reinke
Staying in Utrecht for a residency at Impakt Foundation, the artist observes from his first floor apartment Dutch football fans as they go World Cup crazy. He puts himself to work and uses a Dutch-English dictionary to translate some poems written by Gerrit Achterberg...

CAPE GROUND

Lukas Marxt
Cape Ground appears in the Anthropocene. Man has become one of key factors influencing biological, geological and atmospheric processes on Earth. The Bosporus as connecting piece of inner Eurasian border....

KAIROS

Alexis Destoop
Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the “right or opportune moment”. The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological time, the latter signifies “a time in between,” a break in the continuity of time, a moment in which something special happens...

THE SIGNAL

Grace Schwindt
Taking the true story of a soldier as a starting point, the work explores the significance in military strategies of both the landscape and the capabilities of the human body....

CHUTE D'UNE CHAISE

Michel François
This video shows us a chair falling down a staircase. It bumps and breaks. This gesture poses the artistic act as one of mutilation. Defacing everyday objects in this way alters the way in which we perceive them....

DEATH FUCKING METAL

Koen Theys
This video is the third and final part of a trilogy, in which Fanfare, Calme & Volupté (2007) was the first part and PATRIA (2008) the second. In all three video works a group of people in uniform are lying around in a state of depression in a spectacular setting...

FROM [ TO ]

Peter Downsbrough
In FROM [ TO ], the image slides past a motorway, past countless trucks, petrol stations and containers. Objects are isolated from their environment and articulated in a repetitive, almost architectural structure....

1937

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...

APPUNTI DEL PASSAGGIO

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Appunti del passaggio reconstructs forgotten histories of migrants who moved from Italy to Switzerland in the 1960s. Their experiences were characterised by being utilised exclusively as low skilled labour and by being subjected to widespread discrimination and xenophobia...