OVERZICHT TITELS

PERIPHERAL LIGHT AIR AND SUN

Krassimir Terziev - Daniel Kötter
In most European cities nowadays many more people live in the peripheries than in the city cores. And yet the peripheral spaces receive much less public, academic or political attention than those iconographic spaces in the center that place the image of a city on the map of competitive global tourism and city marketing...

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PART II: CONDITIONS OF MERCY

Jayce Salloum
The title of the second part ’Conditions of Mercy’ refers to religion, a key element of a certain American imagery. After all, the Man who disclaims his capital ’M’ is he not the same who faithfully sings "we are the world"? Fall is the condition of mercy...

Fragments, 1994, Shelly Silver © the artist

FRAGMENTS

Shelly Silver
"Fragments is an ongoing series of short videotapes ranging in length from 6 seconds to two minutes. These tapes can be seen as small drawings or sketches, bringing together pieces of ideas, overheard conversation and glimpsed images. They can also be seen, because of their structure and length, as advertising that doesn’t sell anything." (Source: https://www.shellysilver.com)...

OUTPLACEMENT 01 (PORTRET)

Cel Crabeels
Cel Crabeels explicitly tackles the issues of the area surrounding the St. Jan’s square. He visits the itinerary between the Fabiola Hall and the Sint Jan’s square almost on a daily basis, making contact with the people he meets on his way. He invites them to make a video portrait in the underground parking garage where he has built a studio for the occasion...

LOST IN TIME

Patrick Bernatchez
In Lost in Time, two parallel narratives intertwine: the first follows a helmet-clad, faceless horse and rider adrift in an indeterminate landscape of ice and snow, quite literally lost in time and space, while the second seems to allude to a strange scientific experiment.  Lost in Time plunges us into perpetual renewal, each ending leading to a new beginning...

Oratorium for One Prepared Video Player and Eight Monitors, 1989, Frank Theys © the artist

ORATORIUM FOR ONE PREPARED VIDEO PLAYER AND EIGHT MONITORS

Frank Theys
The video player is positioned in the middle of the room. The magnetic tape rolls out of the player as a big loop which travels over several supports around the player. Surrounding this is a second circle of monitors on pedestals facing the centre of the player and the video loop...

NEAR AND FAR / NOW AND THEN

Ken Kobland
A two-part film, one part unedited camera footage of a late Autumn to Winter woods, and the other a highly manipulated blue-screen re-photography process. Each part mimics the action of the other. Each is involved with a background-foreground, motion-to-still image juxtaposition: with the whole to the part, the arrested moment to the one just gone, the nostalgia of space and time. (https://www...

WAITING FOR THE SECRET

Meggy Rustamova
Waiting for a Secret takes it starting point from a picture, revealing its secrets by zooming into the various details. Gradually, the picture becomes alive, raising issues such as isolation, linguistical confusion, pixelisation and the suggestion of movement within a still image....

Silent Letters, 2009, Mira Sanders © the artist

SILENT LETTER 27042008

Mira Sanders
The first ’Silent Letter’ was written on April 24th, 2008. Officials are obstrucing passing people: they are not allowed to walk across a public square. However, an introductory note by the artist is dated 2007...

LOOKING BACKWARD(S)

Ken Kobland
Reflecting, ruminating, remembering, lamenting, drawing and living with the past and the present... Age, I suppose. LOOKING BACKWARD(s)... ‘Backward’ both ways, behind and awkwardly. Years of talking to myself, arguing, in an invisible courtroom. The ideas, fears, despairs that appear again and again. The world now, the world then, the past always prologue...