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LA SÉRIE
Lucile Desamory1. L’infirmière cannibale A nurse is stealing corpses in order to eat up their brain. The hospital's staff eventually finds out about it. The cannibal nurse is brutally killed and buried in the garden… 2. Le générateur d’ondes électro-psychiques Witold works in a bank during the day but at night, he is building an electro-psychic waves generator...
LINGUA IGNOTA
Edith DekyndtHildegard von Bingen lived during the 12th Century. She was a Benedictine and a precursor, a poet and a doctor, who invented a language that she alone could write and speak, the lingua ignota. This language who has survived thanks to the description given by the Holy Roman Catholic Church in an eponymous book is the title of a video of Edith Dekyndt which features a hand mirror...
DERRIÈRE LES VOLETS
Messaline RaverdyStarting from an empty factory, a family name, and an archival trunk, Derrière les volets is the poetic wandering of an apprentice filmmaker who moves into her grandmother's house. The film manifests itself as a daydream about oblivion and the invisible, woven together from scattered materials, archives and language games...
INLAND VOYAGES IN AN INLAND VOYAGES
Mira SandersNavigating. We rarely think about it, and yet for most of us it is an everyday activity. Internet, Google Maps, GPS, etcetera: who can do without them? Mira Sanders was deeply touched by Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel story An Inland Voyage (1878). In it Stevenson relates how with a friend he paddled in a canoe from the Belgian town of Antwerp to Pontoise in France...
THE CARS
Messieurs DelmotteSitting on the hood of a car, Messieurs Delmotte goes in circles around the parking lot. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...
Staging Silence, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam
STAGING SILENCE (1)
Hans Op de BeeckAfter experiencing many similar public places, the artist found that they collectively lingered in his memory as abstracted, archetypal spaces. These formed the starting point of ’Staging Silence’, an ambiguous piece featuring an eclectix mix of ridiculous and serious images, the concrete and fantasy...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 05. ELEVEN DREAMS
Steve ReinkeThese are images of me when I was a child and carefree, but this voice is my voice as an adult....
PATRIA (VIVE LE ROI! VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!)
Koen TheysVideo installation for 1 projector and 1 flat screenmonitor. In his book ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama defends the idea that the end of history is reached. All the big ideologies of the 20th century have come to an end, he says, and they have made place for a post-ideological, neo-liberal pragmatism...
VARKENSPEST / PESTE PORCINE
Jan VrommanFor several times the native village of the video maker, Wingene, was an epicentre of swine fever. Shaken by the mass destruction of pigs the artist made a poetical videogram with some self-made images and images from the TV news. Homage to the swines who fell on the sacrificial altars of profit seeking....
THE MUSIC BOX
Jef CornelisIn 1932 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy shot ’The Music Box’, a remake of ’Hats Off’, their silent movie from 1927. The location in both films is the same; the only thing that is different is the object the movers Ollie and Stan have to drag up: in the first draught it is an automatic washing machine, in the second a piano...
