OVERZICHT TITELS
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UPRIGHT DRUM IN WATER
Pieter GeenenProtagonist in Upright Drum In Water is the age-old Montezuma cypress or ahuehuete* (Taxodium mucronatum) 'El Sargento' in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, which is believed to be planted around the year 1460, in pre-colonial times. To many native people of Mexico this species is sacred, and associated with authority. In 1910 it became the country’s national tree...
THE BUILDING
Hans Op de Beeck'The Building' is a digitally-generated animation film which takes the viewer on a virtual, nocturnal walking tour of a fictitious, massive hospital. The facility has the mediocre, half-hearted, over-the-top architectural features common to hospitals, shopping malls, health clubs and airports all over the Western world...
DEFECT CHAIR
Messieurs DelmotteMessieurs Delmotte tries, rather unsuccessfully, to stand on a chair....
INK IN MILK
Gernot WielandInk in Milk is Wieland’s most recent film – a knotted string-figure of histories, fictions and images. Through the flickering vignettes of a schoolboy trauma, visits to a friend at a psychiatric institution and encounters with animals, Ink in Milk exposes the anxious, web-like structures that underpin the tragicomedy of existence...
GLASS AND HONEY
Grace Schwindt'Glass and Honey' deals with commodification of social relations and alienation in capitalist society. The character ‘Artist” speaks a text into a microphone and then writes it on the back wall. She moves building blocks that are positioned against the back wall and places them around the other character „50F“...
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...
FROM SATIN ISLAND
Johan GrimonprezA haunting collage of disaster and beauty, set to a shimmering track by Lights Out Asia, Johan Grimonprez in collaboration with acclaimed avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, based on an abstract from his latest book SATIN ISLAND....
IJSBREKER 20: COMPUTERKUNST
Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys - Jef CornelisAn episode of ’Ijsbreker’ on the work of artists who involve electronic machines in their graphic or musical work. In the first location, the Groningen museum, the artist Struycken talks about his work. In Ghent Peter Beyls and Rudi Blondia do the exact same thing...
