However, art like life should not accommodate you, it should shatter you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Architecture is basically a container of something and every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. Whether it is a Japanese air-plane 'eating' it's luggage container or the giant plastic containers of salty liquorice that are eagerly consumed on an annual basis by the Danish public. Is it better to be stepped on with spike heel or Nike shoe? If you know what you are going to do before you do it then is it not worth doing?

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Komplot presents premiere of new video by Philippe Van Wolptutte at The Zero Budget Biennial, Paris.

Opening on September 5 until October 9 2009

Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris & Galerie Schleicher + Lange, Paris

http://www.zerobudget.org

Philippe Van Wolputte's video "Getting Over"(2009) is a remake of the opening scene of the independent movie "Wild Style", which tells the story of a graffiti writer in the south-Bronx during the early 80's. The opening scene of this movie was the only scene that director Charlie Ahearne could get the money together to do properly (legally), the rest of the film was done 'on the run' - without permission. For this reason Philippe Van Wolputte decided to redo this opening scene for The Zero Budget Biennial without any funds. Philippe Van Wolputte's art practice, like graffiti writers, deals with urban exploring, transect walks, climbing fences to get to abandoned places.

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Screenings of 'Sad in Country Parts 1 & 2', two Komplot produced films by Catherine Vertige & Kosten Koper on the subject of Belgian artist collectives.

Featuring Agency, Club Moral, Building Underwood, VAGA, A37908, Rona Family, Ruptz, Soldes fins de séries and the collective work of Jacques Charlier.

August 23 2009, Pavilion, Montreal, Canada http://pavilionprojects.com/

September 2009, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam In 'The Last Session' curated by Jan Van Woensel

http://www.brakkegrond.nl/

view extracts from the films : http://www.diskono.net/sad.html

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