OVERZICHT TITELS

DE ZANGER DEMODOKOS

Jan Vromman
'De zanger Demodokos' returns to the basics of our culture. In a short meditation about the role of text and music, of seeing and blindness, Jan Vromman evokes the blind singer from Homer - the darling of the muses. In this touching short film the blind Tcha Limberger sings the Homer's text, and plays Kris Defoort's music on clarinet. "The worst crime man commits is against himself...

OPERA AND STEEL

Grace Schwindt
Opera and Steel portrays the dilemma of an ornithologist studying the effects of oil pollution on seabirds. The victims he records symbolise the efficiency of capitalism. Schwindt creates a poignant sketch of the relationship between capitalism and morality – and the individual experience in this kind of setting...

ROBERT, OCTOBER 2001

Manon de Boer
From her dozens of portraits, Manon de Boer chose two, ’Robert, June 1996’ and ’Laurien, March 1996’, which she would - and still does - portray over an over again: the same individuals, in the same position, and within the same visual frame...

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PARTS I, II & III

Jayce Salloum
..The Ascent of Man.. Parts I, II, & III is a body of work which looks at the way reproductions/ representations are used to promote, influence and direct a way of life. Perceptual process is examined and guided through common gesture and implication of context to present a view of scientific/corporate materialistic domination of humanistic concerns...

GUIDE DE POLITESSE À L'ATTENTION DE NOS FORCES DE L'ORDRE

Charley Case
In the streets of Tokyo, a young guy is handing out flyers to the passers by. We are not informed for what company or goal he is distributing these. However how polite, however how friendly – and hard! – he is trying, no one of the people passing by in this very busy avenue are accepting his pamphlets. Or is he succeeding in the end?...

THE JACKET (PIGEONS 2)

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte unbuttons his jacket and suddenly opens it, which allows some pigeons to escape. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

WAAROVER MEN NIET SPREEKT 2: ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Jef Cornelis
This documentary, based on a scenario by Geert Bekaert, is an attack on the alienation induced by modern architecture and town-planning. In the monotonous suburbs, life dies away and boredom rules. The city centres are depopulated and dead. The community spirit is not stressed and the individual does not find expression...

WHERE WAS I NOW?

Ken Kobland
A room in Brooklyn, New York, perhaps the room of the artist itself? The space reminds us somewhat of Hoppers famous interior paintings. When the clock is about to strike midnight, images start to appear on the walls of the appartement. Marlene Dietrich on the cover of Life Magazine, Superman, Nikita Kruschev, Laurel and Hardy...

JAMES LEE BYARS: WORLD QUESTION CENTER

Jef Cornelis
The work of the American artist James Lee Byars (1932-1997) resists any strict definition or categorisation. He was greatly influenced by his many travels, as well as by for example Zen philosophy and Noh theatre, which he discovered during the years he spent in Japan. While his oeuvre relates to conceptual, minimal and performance art, it is not limited to any of these genres...

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...