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ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN FOLK SONG
Steve ReinkeNamed 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...
CHANTAL IN GREEN
Rebecca Jane ArthurChantal in Green is part of a series of colour-aura Super 8 film portraits guided by the adage ‘love is a verb’ in which the artist films her nearest and dearest, observing, framing, filming, and constructing keepsakes as an act of love...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 03. WATERMELON BOX
Steve ReinkeIn 1953, J.C.R. Licklider, a computer scientist at Harvard, created the world’s first speech-understanding machine....
HINDU BLUES
Adam LeechHindu Blues brings into view the loss of spiritual control in an absurd way. In the Hindu faith the tilaka – a red dot on the forehead – symbolizes the third eye associated with multiple gods and the idea of meditation and spiritual enlightenment. In the past only gods, priests, ascetics and worshippers wear a tilaka...
A PLACE TO BE
Peter DownsbroughA Place to Be is a dialectical exploration of two specific locations and urban conditions, one on the interior, the other on the exterior, while the soundtrack moves back and forth between ambient sounds and music (Satie’s piano music for instance)...
TRIENNALE BRUGGE
Jef CornelisA calendar and pictures of the Second Bruges Triennial in 1971, paintings by Karel Desmedt, Etienne Elias, Robjee, Raoul de Keyser,… Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" View of a painted facade and of people walking in front of it. 00’32" Poster for the Second Bruges Triennial...
COMMUNICATION
Hans Op de BeeckWithin an abandoned post office painted white, a life sized projection shows a man at one of the counters stamping a huge pile of papers and envelopes, avoiding all communication. The work also exists as a smaller video sculpture. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...
FLAUBERT DREAMS OF TRAVEL BUT THE ILLNESS OF HIS MOTHER PREVENTS IT
Ken Kobland‘Flaubert Dreams of Travel…’ focuses on images of death and transcendence as suggested by the writings of Gustave Flaubert. The film was made in conjunction with the Wooster Group’s stage production ‘Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St...
HET GEEL VAN GENT
Jos De Gruyter - Harald ThysIn this video Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys put themselves in the shoes of the two main characters. Similarly to their previous work Man is characterised as a walk-on in the puppet show of life, a cogwheel in the diabolical machine of destiny. Man is unfathomable and soulless, merely an object in a world of inanimate things...
