OVERZICHT TITELS

ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK SONG

Steve Reinke
Named after Harry Smith’s seminal "Anthology of American Folk Music,” ’Anthology of American Folk Song’ re-inscribes the optimistically paranoid mythological landscape of contemporary America. Reinke illustrates this by saying "they had been unable to believe in the existence of terrorists. After all, none of them had discovered any repressed memories of terrorist abuse...

DEAR ADVISOR

Vincent Meessen
Meessen’s work is set in Chandigarh, the paragon of the modernist city planned by Le Corbusier in the 1950ies as a symbol of the new, progressive nation of India who had just emerged from its colonial past...

TOOLS FOR THE REVOLUTION

Andrea Geyer
A text calling for action appears over the animation of an opened, receptive hand. However, the music - Eric Satie’s well-known ’Gymnopedie No. 1’ – gets stuck, begins over and over again and so never evolves. "(.....

A] PART, Peter Downsbrough, 2009 © the artist & producer

A] PART

Peter Downsbrough
A]PART is a video project filmed in the Citroën Building on the Place de l’Yser/IJzerplein In Brussels. Downsbrough directs camera through different levels of the building. Sometimes the camera focusses on what is happening outside: traffic... Only buildings, cars and structures are seen...

FOR THE RECORD

Fleur Khani - Ailien Reyns
This audiovisual work offers a contemporary insight in the lives of people in a metropole and researches more specifically the different forms of proximity. Through the images as well as the voice-over, the film aims to reformulate the question of proximity in contemporary urban society...

EIDERDOWN

Messieurs Delmotte
A white quilt is repeatedly being dropped from a window onto the street. On its way down the quilt follows a whimsical route along the outer wall. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

STARSHIP

Bernard Gigounon
‘Starship’ shows an enormous symmetrical axis, stranded on a beach of the North Sea. Futuristic thinking about possible worlds is proper to humankind. For the last fifty years new technologies and impressive means of transport have aroused our imagination on the silver screen, in science fiction films and series like ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Star Trek’...

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...

BIËNNALE SINT-NIKLAAS

Jef Cornelis
For the 14th episode of “Zoeklicht” (Searchlight) on BRT (Belgian Radio & Televison), Jef Cornelis and his team visited the 2nd Biennial of Sint-Niklaas. With his well-known critical stance towards the institutional management of art, Cornelis guides us through the open-air sculpture exhibition in the city park of Sint-Niklaas...

untitled part 6: upon the resonance of histories, Jayce Salloum, 2009-2010 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 6: UPON THE RESONANCE OF HISTORIES

Jayce Salloum
Parihaka (on the north island of Aotearoa/New Zealand) is seen by many nationally and internationally as a symbol of non-violent resistance, and a Maori struggle for contemporary and historical justice ...