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AFTERNOON (MARCH 22, 1999)
Steve ReinkeThe artist spends the afternoon in his tiny apartment listening to music he dislikes and ruminating on what it means to be an artist. All the edits are in-camera and the monologues and songs are largely improvised....
MADRIGAAL
Lili DujourieA bare wooden floor fills the screen. Encircled tightly by the camera, a clothed figure rolls, folds and unfolds upon itself between pauses of variable duration. Resorting to the close-up reinforces the sculptural aspect of the body. A contrapuntal rhythm emerges as each successive change in form overlaps the previous one in a movement that never discloses the contours of a fixed state of being...
HET GOUDEN KALF / LE VEAU D'OR
Jan Vromman“Het Gouden Kalf” (“The Golden Calf”) is the report of a performance held in 2002. During the “Top of Laeken”, an anti-globalist manifestation in Brussels, the Golden Calf - a sculpture on a carrying board in true size - was carried in a procession to the European Parliament. The Golden Calf is, of course, the symbol for the adoration of power and money...
MEETING WILLIAM WILSON
Koen TheysThe work is a dramatised recording of a performance, put up during the opening of an exhibition in the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle. Theys, who has a twin brother himself, had asked some eighty identical twins to mingle with the public that was present at the time, and behave as normal visitors to an exhibition would...
POSSIBILITÉS POUR UN ÉCRAN DE TÉLÉVISION / RÉFLEXION-ÉMISSION
Jacques Louis NystThis film, composed of three parts (1 - 'Réflexion / emission’; 2 - 'Une part de silence pour une part de réfléxion / animation’, 3 - 'Concentration’), was made the year of the first video exhibition in Belgium, held at the Gallery Yellow Now in Liège...
KUNST ALS KRITIEK. WANNEER IS KUNST WEL KRITIEK? 4. WANNEER DE KUNSTENAAR IN ALLE ERNST SPEELT [NOS VERSION]
Jef CornelisPart of a series of short themed sketches surrounding the question “When is Art Criticism?”, the given answer this time being ’When the artist is toying around in all seriousness’...
2 FEET FOR 2 BALLS
Messieurs DelmotteOn a football field, a disabled man is standing. He stares at two balls, a red one and a yellow one. Suddenly, the balls start to move and get closer and closer to the man till they climb up to his arms. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...
A STRANGE NEW BEAUTY
Shelly SilverA disturbing intrusion into the luxurious homes of Silicon Valley. Using an aggressive soundtrack and a full frame often fractured into small rectangles covered by text, Silver reveals a deafening violence behind the glittering beauty and deceptively calm of this suburban landscape...
ART SECURITY SERVICE
Bernard MulliezIn the spring of 2005, the property developer Robelco, gave wide media coverage to a project for "revitalizing" the Ravenstein Galleries in Brussels. With the intention of "improving the image" of the Galleries, they invited several art galleries to temporarily occupy the many empty commercial spaces...
