OVERZICHT TITELS

BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, FRENCH 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...

ONE BY ONE

Marie Voignier - Vassilis Salpistis
One by one is a fifteen minute experimental film-collage, which is composed by a number of testimonies and texts relating to historical events and crisis in Greece. The assemblage converges the exploration of contemporary applications of the function of myth. To a great extend consisting of filmed photographs, even when in motion the images of the film suggest the stillness of a stable shot...

UMBRELLA [PART OF FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 1]

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is crossing a shopping street, opens his umbrella and tosses it over his shoulder onto the street. The camera stays on the object, letting us admire the reactions of the passers-by. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

THE SILKPROCESS: SOME CHOREOGRAPHY & POETRY WITH GERARD MALANGA

Hänzel & Gretzel
A short trilogy based on Gerard Malanga’s art and writings. ‘The Unknown Girl’ opens with a bucolic vision on the poet’s desire for younger lovers and unknown experiences. The second part is a plain reading of ‘Some Things To Remember About Tri-X’ (from Malanga’s recent ‘Mythologies of The Heart’)...

TURKEY

Messieurs Delmotte
In this video Messieurs Delmotte juggles about with a turkey. He appears and disappears; his face is hidden behind the beast, creating an impression that the turkey is taking poses in before the camera. Delmotte, a self-declared poser, sneers at the institutionalised art world with his mischievous and surprising actions, trivial in content and simple in form...

BEAVER SKULL MAGICK

Steve Reinke
Two sections. In the first, the notorious internet video, Shake the Bear, in which a woman shoots and kills from a tree a bear and has sex on the body, is described and commented shot by shot. In the second section, archival footage of Grey Owl, a British man who famously fooled the Canadian nation pretending to be a Native Canadian, interacting with beavers is discussed....

FENÊTRE DE VUE

Mira Sanders
Fenêtre de vue is a graphical exploration of how a drawing after experiencing two residencies, lines itself step by step out. The exploration considers the window as a possible perspective to capture an imaging and thinking of a drawer that is re-imagining the route she made in the two residencies....

CLEAN AIR

Grace Schwindt
Clean Air investigates how meaning is projected onto landscapes. For instance, the Alps are linked with power, purity and cleanness, terms that were also used to describe the German identity from the 1920s onwards. Two female performers of different generations react to this mental construction with a choreography of dance, music, costumes, milk and knitting....

RAINBOW MARKET

Pascal Baes
A recording of a street performance by Aï Suzuki was edited with Baes’ typical time-lapse techniques into a kinetic staccato game with movement and space...

MONTEVIDEO

Jef Cornelis
Montevideo (Uruguay), 1.300.000 inhabitants, borders on the same river (La Plata) as Buenos Aires. At the end of the 19th century an art scene bloomed here, which stands out favourably against the rest of the continent...