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VOMIT STAR

Steve Reinke - John Marriott
In 1997, John Marriott proposed ’Vomit Star’, a six-foot star constructed from fake vomit, for his solo exhibition at the Power Plant Toronto. The project was rejected, regrets lingered. “Marriott and Reinke demonstrate the affirmative value of domestic voodoo in this descent into crime-scene-glitter-porn (which is presumably one word in German)...

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Edith Dekyndt
Acousticians from the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons measured the precise resonant frequency of crystal glasses. They were reproduced by a frequency generator and played through a loudspeaker in the presence of each of the glasses. At this frequency, the sound energy is trapped in the glasses, which then start to vibrate. The vibration finally causes them to break...

IJSBREKER 11: WONEN+WONEN=2

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
A house is an environment. A home is an extension of who you are. How can we live in a house, be at home in a home? These issues are tackled in a live transmission by Bob van Reeth, architect and teacher, and Marcel Raymaekers, tradesman in historical style objects. A work by both is presented, architectural pieces as places with a memory, an environment with a mind, a space in time...

THE INVISIBLES' PARLIAMENT

Vincent Meessen
The narrative in ‘The Invisibles’ Parliament’ is based on ghost images. Two apparitions emerge from the darkness and lead us towards a still fountain where a crowd is waiting for them. The ‘fountain’ object is here poetically re-visited. Through a series of loose associations, this short film traces the roots of modernity...

THE MIME AND THE APE

Erik Bünger
In the film Silent Movie (1976) a film director places a phone call to Marcel Marceau to ask him to star in a silent film. The world famous mime picks up the phone and shouts “No!”. Thirty-five years later the exact same stunt is repeated by Cesar, the chimpanzee protagonist in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)...

PLUS KERN (GENT)

Jef Cornelis

THE WELL-HEELED

Hubert Marécaille
Devoid of close friends, a wealthy man, with perverse pleasures and lack of company, invites his aquaintances into his homes and gains the sympathy of his sons, promising an advantageous inheritance that another son refuses, causing irritation and total incomprehension, – irritation also created by his wife, that the man has bought her jewelry with his fortune « acquired honestly &raqu...

CONTAINER

Messieurs Delmotte
A bottle of wine is hanging from the side of a container. It is pulled towards the opening of the container by an invisible thread. Seconds before reaching the hole, the bottle falls to the ground and shatters. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

OP-ART

Jef Cornelis
An exhibition of a work by the Italian artist Julio Le Parc gives cause to a short report on ‘Op-art’ or Optical Art. This movement arose from geometrical abstract art and it is often bracketed together with Kinetic Art. Often Op-art is the starting point for an attempt to set up an artwork in a ‘scientific’ way, according to strict rules...

CONSTANT

Marie André
A woman, a man, and a beach on the North Sea are the basic elements with which André constructs an elegant fiction of a couple, and deconstructs the codes and gestures of desire and betrayal. In her formal, rhythmic compositions, André observes the intimate detail and familiar gestures of the everyday with striking visual acuity...