OVERZICHT TITELS

REVERSED GARDEN

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video-performance that was made in a city garden. From the weeds in the garden, Monsieur Delmotte rises with an inverted, filled flowerpot on his head. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

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...

OUT - SIDE

Peter Downsbrough

PROVISORY OBJECT 03

Edith Dekyndt
Like the pieces ‘Provisory Object 01’ and ‘Provisory Object 02’, Dekyndt’s video shows the membrane of a soap bubble, in this case stretched between the thumb and finger of a hand...

MAURICE BÉJART (& MUDRA)

Jef Cornelis
Maurice Béjart speaks about the state of dancing in Belgium in a European and international context, the school programme and how pupils are selected for the Ecole Mudra. Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles. 00’15" Announcements...

THE BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY PROJECT

Tzu Nyen Ho
The script for the film, which takes place in a room at Singapore’s Supreme Court, is entirely based on the lyrics of Queen’s song Bohemian Rhapsody. A boy is on trial, and is broken-hearted at the sight of his ‘mama’ crying...

DRIFTING

Hans Op de Beeck
'Drifting' is a narrative video in which an old man is heard off-screen, bidding farewell to his beloved. It becomes clear from his account that she committed suicide when they were both still young. At the end of his life, he speaks of the tragedy and of her inconceivable beauty, which he carries in his memory...

PRÉLUDE N°3

Bernard Gigounon
“It all happened one evening. I was in a bar, quietly having a drink. A man sat down beside me and as we were alone, we started talking together. We spoke about red wine, women and music and at this moment, I realized that this man was Claude Debussy. I told him that I made videos and explained my work to him...

AS SOL TO EVA

Teresa Cos
The appropriation of the famous letter that Sol LeWitt wrote in 1965 to artist and friend Eva Hesse is at the center of this work. In what seems to be a Skype conversation with a distant friend -wearing a t-shirt printed with LeWitt’s hand drawing as it appears on the manuscript- the letter becomes a two way pep talk in the mouth of an online oracle...

JEANLOUP SIEFF

Jef Cornelis
A report on several exhibitions taking place in Belgium: painter Raf van Cauwenberghe’s, Jack Goderis’s – a member of what was the ‘jeune peinture Belge’ at the time – and the selection of work by French photographer Jeanloup Sieff shown at the Museum for Contemporary Art in Ghent...