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FIR TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
In a public park the protagonist approaches a pine with a small ladder. He unfolds it, takes a run up, and jumps into a tree, desperately trying to clench on to it. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
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THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 50. CHILD

Steve Reinke
This child has mistaken the concept “snowman” for the idea “angel”....
Blue, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist Blue, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist

BLUE

Ria Pacquée
From her house, Ria Pacquée walks to the nearby art centre Extra City in Antwerp. She carries a long wooden lath that covers a large part of her face. While the setting might make one think of the typical comedy ladder drill, Pacquée performs her movements with precision and a deadpan seriousness....
Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 22012009

Mira Sanders
The fourth 'Silent Letter' was written on January 22nd, 2009. While we see people playing volleyball on a beach, the narrator reflects on water, and how it changes from rain, moving through man's world and back to cloud again. In the end she refers to the seaside, where clouds are best viewed...

THE RABBIT

Messieurs Delmotte
In this early video piece, Messieurs Delmotte seems to find himself in the setting of a magician: a table with a red cloth on which a cute little bunny is waiting. However, after the music started playing, some rather surprising action is going on between the artist-performer and the rabbit. Part of the ‘Century of the 20th Sex’ series....

RALFS FARBEN

Lukas Marxt
“We can’t use the same light, we have to use completely new keys with completely new light and even these can be found to a limited extent,” says Ralf at one point...
Surya, Laurent Van Lancker, 2006 © the artist & producer Surya, Laurent Van Lancker, 2006 © the artist & producer

SURYA

Laurent Van Lancker
Once upon a journey, 10 contemporary storytellers of different cultures create an imaginary epic story. They each draw on their own style and language to perpetuate the life of a nameless hero. The aromas of cultures, the taste of words and the perfume of travelling carry us from one storyteller to the next...

THE ROOT PROBLEM OF THE WORLD

Steve Reinke
This is adapted from a two-channel video installation of the same name I presented at Birch Libralato in conjunction with the Images Festival in Toronto in 2011. The footage is from reel-to-reel video documentation of the lecture Joseph Beuys gave at NSCAD in 1976 on the occassion of his honorary degree...

JAMES LEE BYARS, ANTWERPEN 18 APRIL – 7 MEI 1969

Jef Cornelis
Documentary on James Lee Byars’s exhibition at the Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (18.04.1969 / 07.05.1969). James Lee Byars, his whole body covered by a robe, talks to Walter Van Dijck about the meaning of art, the new meaning of clothes, the beauty of ’Natural Landscapes In An Urban Situation’, the role of museums and his idea that a show is a translation of his ideas...

FILIP VAN SNICK: STALL-OLOGY

Jef Cornelis
The Belgian artist Philippe van Snick (°1946) uses paintings, installations and sculptures to explore, analyse and create spaces. Using minimal visual elements, he relates his works to the space where they are shown and inspires the viewer to have a personal and individual experience of his works...