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Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges, ‘Self portrait’

Drawn after he went blind


Eadward Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge, ‘Descending Stairs and Turning Around, Animal Locomotion’ (1887)


Elina Brotherus

Elina Brotherus, ‘Mirroir’ (1999)


Timm Ulrichs

Timm Ulrichs, ‘Selbstauslöschung durch Malerei’ (‘Erasure of the self through painting’)


Elizaveta Konovalova

‘Noir et black’ (2011) by Elizaveta Konovalova


Charles Ray

Charles Ray, ‘Phantom Limb’ (1981-85)


Dirk Verschure

by Dirk Verschure


Anri Sala

Anri Sala, ‘A Spurious Emission’ (2008)

The performance is based on an experience that Anri Sala had while driving across Arizona, listening to baroque chamber music on his car radio. As he pulled into a rest area, an unknown radio station playing country music intermittently interrupted the baroque music. Anri Sala commissioned a composer to transpose this sound experience into a musical score, performed by a baroque trio, a country band and a radio announcer.


Stijn van Dorpe

Stijn van Dorpe, ‘Clio’ (2009)

Together with a teacher and the students of a local technical secondary school, Van Dorpe worked towards an image that translated the power and energy of both the low budget exhibition initiative and the youngsters. A black Renault Clio was turned upside down and the necessary adjustments were made to enable the car to keep on running, however without moving forward. During a performance at the opening night of the exhibition, the physical power that the car developed was shown as a dynamic spectacle – accompanied by a drummer and T-shirts printed with technical details of the car.


Roman Ondák

Roman Ondák, ‘Guided Tour (follow me)’ (2002)

Tours are provided by a 12-year-old boy whose commentary is given entirely in the future tense.