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THE THREAD
Hans Op de BeeckA Chinese proverb says that an invisible thread connects those destined to meet, despite time, place and circumstances. The thread can be tightened or tangled, but will never be broken. Taking this clear and simple metaphor as my starting point, I created a video as a visual love poem about a punk girl and boy who grow old together. Love and death here go hand in hand...
ABOUT THE ANTICAPITALIST CARNIVAL
Charley CaseTo 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...
SAHARA CHRONICLE : A COLLECTION OF VIDEOS ON MOBILITY AND THE POLITICS OF CONTAINMENT IN THE SAHARA
Ursula BiemannA collection of videos on mobility and the politics of containment in the Sahara...
THE CARS
Messieurs DelmotteSitting on the hood of a car, Messieurs Delmotte goes in circles around the parking lot. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
MAX BILL
Jef CornelisMax Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...
ELEVAGE DE POUSSIÈRE / DUST BREEDING
Sarah VanagtIn this work, Sarah Vanagt turns her attention to an important chapter in recent European history: the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague...
FRÄNZ ÜND KOFÖN [PART]
Messieurs DelmotteA short video, part of a serial, in which Monsieur Delmotte pretends to be a German Artist. Standing in front of a door, he holds a seemingly very serious and highbrow speech in a language that is supposed to represent German. Only here and there words like “Ausstellung, Künstles, Sheisse,…” are understandable. This work is part of the series FränZ ünd KoFöN...
L'AUTEUR
Michel LorandThe Medea installation is made up of a large, square table with four video monitors. A single actor or actress is seen on three of the four monitors, from the waist up and frontal. The fourth monitor shows only text. The starting point is a short prose piece written by Lorand about a young woman intending to kill her two children after the end of her relationship with their father...
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...
