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The Residence | video + lecture

bert — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:25:15 +0000

Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir, The Residence (a wager for the afterlife) (2012). Photo: Kristien Daem. The Residence (a wager for the afterlife) is a video project by Belgian artist-duo Katleen Vermeir & Ronny Heiremans (website), on display in Argos, Brussels, until April 1, 2012. Their new video focusses on the artist as entrepreneur in [...]

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Belgium | drive-through

movingcities — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:18:08 +0000

Belgium | September 1, 2010 The Washington Post calls it a Belgian family drama and the Hollywood Report a bawdy, heartfelt glimpse into a proudly dysfunctional Belgium family. No, we’re not reviewing the current political crisis in Belgium, but quote reactions on The Misfortunates, a movie by Belgian director Felix van Groeningen, based on a [...]

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Belgium | trainstations & landscapes

movingcities — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:34:03 +0000

Ghent | February 23, 2010 An extended series of images capturing one week of moving around in the northern part of Belgium, Flanders, by train. The home of continental Europe’s first railway, built in 1835, Belgium has one of Europe’s most extensive rail networks. Snapshots from Ghent, Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels. And the 99% urbanized [...]

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Driving through Belgium | part I

movingcities — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:28:28 +0000

Belgium | April 2009 In 1968 the Belgian architect Renaat Braem published a manifesto on his native country called “The Ugliest Country in the World”. In 1979, on the eve of the 150th anniversary of Belgian independence, architect and artist Luc Deleu (T.O.P. Office) laid ‘the last stone of Belgium’ in his small front garden [...]

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MAS | under construction snapshots

movingcities — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:09:31 +0000

The MAS (tagline a new museum in Antwerp about the river, the city, the port and the world) is a design by Neutelings-Riedijk Architects and currently under construction. Surprisingly under construction one could say, as the design was already on the table in 1999 when Neutelings-Riedijk won the international architectural competition. It took 7 years [...]

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