OVERZICHT TITELS

KOREAN STUDIES

Joëlle Tuerlinckx
Filmed data of a journey in South Korea as far as the border with Nort Korea; a set of space scenes heightened by special effects.Square white line, red rectangle-frame, blue curve, pink angle, black mobile-point... The effect precedes the action, follows a movement, takes a speed, a colour, from one or other of the elements making up the scene... The effect lends tone, the image is activated...

COWS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte starts chasing the cows in a field, while clapping his hands. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

AUTON

Alexis Destoop
Another little video-object originating from the same medical archive as "Quod", it is - quite literally - a looking into an eye's blind spot. Again, the source material actually represents area of the optical nerve in the iris...

TRAVELOGUE 2: THE METAMORPHOSES OF TINTIN

Stefaan Decostere
This episode guides us through the African Museum in Brussels and explores the different ways of the fabrication of exoticism: how to make Africa exotic, and Brussels, and Nature, and Morale, and why not Anything, such as this Travelogue: an exotic critique...

THE NATURAL LOOK

Steve Reinke
"There is no future in reproduction. I have no concern with any species extending itself through time. You think you have given birth to a baby, when really you have given birth to a bus driver, or tax collector. Instead I'm interested in the placenta, the real mother of us all, forgotten discarded. The softest machine, all lipids and blood, that blooms and rots like any vegetal/floral martyr...

HEXHAM HEADS

Chloë Delanghe - Mattijs Driesen
Tinted by the red safelight of the darkroom, the film (re)constructs a breathless pastoral horror about a place crystallized in time and terrorized by two 6cm tall stone heads whose current location remains unknown...

A FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH OSCAR

Mira Sanders
The video A First Encounter with Oscar is a reconstruction of Sanders’ physical encounter with Oscar Niemeyer’s Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon. In the image, Mira Sanders’ body and camera play with the lines the architect has drawn. The diptych editing confronts the various points of view, engages them in a dialogue and creates an imbalance...

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): PHOTO

Jacques Lennep
The camera scans the image of a picture of a young man on which is written the word 'photo'....

MOUTH AND RED CHICKENS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte tosses around chestnut chickens with his mouth. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

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...