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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)...

BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF 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...

SOMETIMES, SOME OF THEM, HERE

Marie José Burki
« L’homme peut (…) bien perdre sa qualité fondamentale d’homme, sa dignité humaine. Seule la perte de l’appartenance à une communauté politique l’exclut de l’humanité » (H. Arendt) « because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place » (T.S...

REAL TO REAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Messieurs Delmotte
In ’Real to real photography’ a young man is shown, among others, blowing a whistle. Furthermore the image of a woman onscreen is half covered, a man is bombarded with fruit, a woman smokes a cigarette without taking it from her mouth and a head disappears behind a mountain of whipped cream...

THE CRY

Ria Pacquée
In various outdoor locations, a cry is performed. As the locations differ – under trees, in a rough wooden structure, in a field – the distance of the performer from the camera also differs, altering the volume and proximity of the sound. The performer also varies the vocal qualities of the cry, including its length, tone, pitch and volume...

ANAL MASTURBATION & OBJECT LOSS

Steve Reinke
The artist decides to found his own art school and begins by assembling materials for the library. Finding too many words are available, he glues together the unnecessary pages of books....

MADONNA WITH CHILD

Nicolas Provost
A very personal, fairly explicit and worrying portrayal of the birth of Christ....

Not a matter of if but when: brief records of ... , 2006, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne © the artists

NOT A MATTER OF IF BUT WHEN: BRIEF RECORDS OF A TIME IN WHICH EXPECTATIONS WERE REPEATEDLY RAISED AND LOWERED AND PEOPLE GREW EXHAUSTED FROM NEVER KNOWING IF THE MOMENT WAS AT HAND OR STILL TO COME

Julia Meltzer - David Thorne
Not a matter of it but ... when was developed in 2005–06 in Damascus, Syria...

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...