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NO PROBLEMS WITH FREAKS

Hänzel & Gretzel
The various characters of legendary Tod Browning’s movies re-cast in a thrilling suspense. A freaky jig....

STAGING SILENCE (3)

Hans Op de Beeck
Staging Silence (3) is the third and final installment in a series of autonomous art films, all realised according to the same principles. In the three films, two pairs of anonymous hands construct and deconstruct fictional interiors and landscapes on a mini film set of just three square meters in size...

GROSSE KLEINE WELT

Marie José Burki
Robert Walser wrote many CV’s – for employers, editors and so on – but we know little about himself. I started from a CV written by Walser, to which I added a line, and I looked for traces of Walser, or rather the absence of them, in the city and region where he was born. I’ve started a sort of antiportrait of Walser, inspired by his novels and other texts...

LESSEN IN BESCHEIDENHEID

Stefaan Decostere
Decostere looks at the inherent paradox in the conception of the future by scientists from the San Francisco area, who praise the merits of an on-line virtual community which will ultimately allow users to never having to leave the periphery of their neighbourhoods...

2 FEET FOR 2 BALLS

Messieurs Delmotte
On 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...

VERLIEFDE HARTEN OF DE LISTEN ENER JONKER

Jef Cornelis
In the mid-1970s artist and author Pjeeroo Robjee wrote a popular farce that played in the region where he lived. The play was performed in a popular theatre near Ghent by the locals. Cornelis filmed the entire performance, both onstage, offstage and backstage. During the preparations, we see the actors-locals being made up. While the public enters, the tension rises...

LE CORPS VERBAL: UN VOYAGE DANS L'UNIVERS DE MARCEL MOREAU (FILM-DÉFILANT)

Charley Case - Manuela de Tervarent - Gauthier Keyaerts
On the occasion of the radio-transmission ‘Le Corps Verbal: un voyage sonore dans l'univers de Marcel Moreau', Charley Case created this pearl of a short animated work...

PATERSHOL, GENT

Jef Cornelis
After a general view of the city Ghent, its horizon and roofs, we are confronted with views of streets and houses in one particular district that is threatened with demolition. A poster announces protest actions against the demolition of the Patershol district....

CAT FOOD WOMAN

Alison Murray
A parody on the cat food commercial in which the food is always dished up lovingly by a nice lady looking as if she just walked out a beauty palour. Murray’s perceives things differently…...

STANLEY BROUWN 6 STAPPEN 10X (MTL GALLERY BRUSSEL) + KAREL APPEL

Jef Cornelis
Since the early Sixties, the autodidact Dutch conceptual artist Stanley Brouwn (°1935) is internationally known for his practice based on the acts of displacement, walking and measuring. For instance, he once announced that his solo exhibition was taking place in every shoe shop in Amsterdam...