BANG! JAMES LEE BYARS RE-ENACTMENT

For the exhibition 'ORBIS TERRARUM—Ways of Worldmaking' (Museum Plantijn Moretus, Antwerp, 2000, curated by Moritz Küng), Cel Crabeels made this video re-enacting James Lee Byars’ well known piece 'Smithereens: the remnants of an exploded globe' that was on view in Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1993, Brussels. Shot without sound, Crabeels’ black and white video shows a white plaster globe that explodes in slow motion.