For its presence at Art Brussels, Extra City has decided to give its booth each day to a different project. Extra City is dedicated to the production and presentation of contemporary art as well as international research projects and publications. In this spirit, the four projects presented at Art Brussels function as 'incomplete stories': sketches of future projects, reflections on urban contexts, or propositions to re-consider work from the past.

Location
Art Brussels, Booth 12F-09
Brussels Expo, Paleis 11 & 12
Belgiëplein 1, BE-1020 Brussels

Day 1 | 20 April | Cel Crabeels

On day one, Cel Crabeels will present a work consisting of various material about the installation and destruction of a public sculpture by Dan Graham in northern central Antwerp's Sint-Jansplein, which is near Extra City's present location. Crabeels has documented the allegorical metamorphoses of Graham's piece 'Funhouse for Children' (1998), which was especially designed for the Sint-Jansplein, but hardly survived its inauguration. The glass pavilion was severely damaged and while restoring it, destroyed beyond repair. The battered remains of this minimal construction were removed and, in time, rebuilt on the green lawns of the Middelheim museum. The context has changed from a busy city square to an idyllic museum. 'Funhouse' has become a different work. It even carries a new title: 'Belgian Fun'.

Day 2 | 21 April | Wouter Davidts

On the following day, Wouter Davidts, architect and author of 'Bouwen voor de Kunst?' (A&S/books, 2006), will present a sketch for an upcoming exhibition at Extra City. Under the working title 'Beginners and Begetters', Davidts prepares the second presentation in the recently launched series 'Thinking Architecture', to open at June 28th. Departing from an unrealized project of 1955 for an Art Museum in Antwerp by the Belgian architect François Jamagne, published in the legendary book 'Megastructure. Urban Futures of the Recent Past' (Harper & Row, 1976) by British architectural historian and critic Reyner Banham, Davidts will set up a critical reflection on the infrastructure for institutions and museums of contemporary art in post-war Flanders. This obscure but in Banham's words 'remarkably forward-looking project' by Jamagne is but one of the many schemes that architects, museum directors and officials dreamed up to solve the ever sad and poor architectural condition of their institutions. Due to the most diverse reasons, most of these projects were doomed to remain fictitious and unknown to the public. Presenting a historical cartography of the manifold visionary projects of the recent past, the exhibition aims to elicit a discussion on the future role and significance of architecture in the Flemish landscape of art institutions.

Day 3 | 22 April | Ludo Mich

For the third day, Extra City invited curator Ulrike Lindmayr to present the work of an Antwerp based artist. Lindmayr choose Ludo Mich, a filmmaker, performer – artist of the fluxus movement, who's work forms an important source of inspiration for a younger Antwerp scene. Ludo Mich is known for a series of experimental films in de 60s and 70s – wayward adaptations of science fiction and Greek myths, wholesale nudity and self-made soundtracks of primal yelling, tape delay machines, African poetry, de-tuned guitar, glass, elastic and more. These days Ludo Mich is performing together with - among others – Hacky Pack Sac Sac, the two hyper active Antwerp artists Dennis Tyfus and Vaast Colson. At the art fair in Brussels Extra City will screen three films: 'Saturnus' (1972), 'Lysistrata' (1976) and 'Multi D : 2D' (1982).

Day 4 | 23 April | Danny Williams

The last day, Extra City will present an exclusive preview of the films of Danny Williams, whose works will be part of a larger series of screenings launched by Extra City and MuHKA_media in Fall 2007, investigating questions of networks and genre in underground and experimental film across Europe and beyond. The first series entitled 'Underground/Overseas' will be curated by Marc Siegel with 'the Friends of the German Cinematheque', who presented the world premiere of Danny Williams' films at this years' Forum Expanded section of the Berlin International Film Festival. Williams started as a photographer and film editor before he became one of Andy Warhol's lovers and major collaborators in 1965. Since Williams disappeared in 1966, his significant contributions to the Factory aesthetics as well as his utterly unique films have gone forgotten. Recently rediscovered, the almost twenty films which Danny Williams made during his short period in the Factory, intimately present Warhol and his Superstars as they go about their daily life of art-making and partying.