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THE SIMPLE FACT OF NOT BEING A WOMAN (1)
Messieurs DelmotteIn this early piece, part one of two, Messieurs Delmotte dresses up as some disco diva, dancing naked in front of the camera on a thumping disco beat. Is it so easy not being a woman?...
SNUFF COQ
Messieurs DelmotteDelmotte makes his own snuff-movie by killing a rooster with a sabre and throwing the corpse in a canal. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...
Jokes, 2000, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
JOKES
Angel VergaraVergara asks the artists participating in ’Over the Edges’ to tell a joke. While he is in his car, he tells one himself in French and Dutch....
HEAD WITH THE CATS
Messieurs DelmotteMonsieur Delmotte stand in a garden and puts two kittens on his head. Each time they fall, climb or jump down, Monsieur Delmotte repeats his action. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...
ONCE YOU'VE SHOT THE GUN, YOU CAN'T STOP THE BULLET
Jayce SalloumTwo descriptions: 1/ Shot on location in Beirut, Bikfaya, Byblos, Jerusalem, Jouni, Kelowna, La Jolla, Las Vegas, Limosol, L.A., Mesa, N.Y.C., Portland, San Diego, San Felipe, Tijuana and Vancouver...
PROOF OF LIFE
Herman AsselberghsThe interior of an open, empty space: the frontier between ’inside’ and ’out side’ is slight. The only sign of human presence is to be found as a voice-over: a male voice recalling horrifying TV-images, a popular disaster film, a long-term imprisonment. The title alludes to the diplomatic negotiating jargon used during the video recording of a live hostage...
La famille, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA FAMILLE
Angel VergaraImages of lions in the wild are combined with media images of Dutch- and French-speaking politicians, journalists and media personalities. On the soundtrack, lions roaring can be heard sporadically while the artist traces the movie images with gestures as though painting...
L'AGE D'OR NR. 2
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenThis animation begins with a yellow-and-blue star, that looks like the Star of David. In the center of the star there’s a drawing of a man with his hands and feet tied up. The star is turning around, and black and white circles appear. A distorted voice is talking about absurdity, structure and limits. Two men are now in the center of the star, still with their hands and feet bound together...
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 28. TESTIMONIALS
Steve ReinkeFive friends warmly describe what a good lover Steve Reinke is. As always, Reinke works on the hesitation : "it is and it isn’t true". Are these people gamely saying what he has asked them to say?...
