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'Here, I want to create a kind of remake (for an installation I made at my home in Balen in 1991) with, amongst others, a satellite dish at the museum to capture a number of channels. One of the things I want to highlight here is my interest in the turning point in communications in 1991: they took a completely different turn. The Internet was still in the making and the car that runs on electricity had yet to be invented. A dog had already been sent into space, we were walking on the Moon and dreaming of Mars. Satellites flew high and Awacs planes flew low over Balen. The papers said we were at war, the ‘Gulf War’…' (Jef Geys)