Is Washing Hands Abnormal by Bruce Nauman appreciated in a different way than the kung-fu demonstration The Monkey Cudgel by Li Yuzhong? Bastiaan FRANKEN examined the reception of video in an art context in a non art context. He had 4 art connoisseurs, 4 kung-fu fanatics and 4 plebs watch the video and presented the results of his research during the Salon. See also: www.bastiaanfranken.nl.
In the film PILOT 1.1 (2005) we observe the curious life of (2) Twan JANSSEN(s). He develops his alter ego Mini Me in the realm of video games, and sends emails to Pierre Coinde, in whose gallery he would like to present his work. An exciting mix of real life, film set props and personal thoughts.
Julie PEETERS, a young belgian designer, presented her self portrait using whatever has already become art history in imagery in the last few years. I, as a girl, write a story about girls is her motto, but shouldn't be taken literally. With Nirvana's -Come as you are, as I want you to be- and Steve Dixon -I was thinking about women's secret capacity for violence- And many images of girls: Art, stories, photographs, and films about girls touch me in a intangible way.
The beauty and decay of the seventeenth-century dutch still lifes inspired Brigitte HENDRIX to design a line of contemporary clothing called Something here feels horribly wrong. A contemporary collection that shows elements of the times with the same subtleness as the seventeenth century still lifes.
