COLLECTION

MR. PARK'S HOLIDAY

Cel Crabeels
This performative documentary presents a fusion of the key strands of Douglas Park and Cel Crabeels artistic practice. Several of the DP performances are staged and restaged in different places on Jeju Island and the Seoul art world. New footage taken from a range of different contexts converge with local Korean touristic an cultural hotspots...

IMITATION DE JÉSUS-CHRIST (HOMMAGE À YVES SOMVILLE)

Jacques Lennep
In the seventies Jacques Lennep worked on his « Musée de l’homme», a series of exhibitions, performances and videos in which eight figures were shown over the course of time in an artistic context, according to a wayward conception of sociological art...

HERE IS EVERYTHING

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
Here Is Everything presents itself as a message from The Future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit, spirit guides who explain that they’ve decided to speak to us via a contemporary art video because they understand this to be our highest form of communication. Their cheeky introduction, however, belies the complex set of ideas that fill the remainder of the film...

CLAQUETTES

Emilio López-Menchero
Claquettes is a short video where the artist is exercising in the tap dancing. The fix camera records his performance, but it focuses on his naked body. Between time registration and memory of his Spanish origin, the video is a short experimentation with the medium....

ENTRE NOUS QUELQUE CHOSE SE PASSE...

Ria Pacquée
In the work of Ria Pacquée the relative and the existential converge. She records her presence and that of others in this world, using photography and recently video, like traces of social archaeology. Pacquée begins with the premise that life doesn’t necessarily revolve around knowing and grasping, but that everything starts with breathing and a longing for otherness...

THE UNDERDEVELOPED MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
In 2012 Messieurs Delmotte went to Jakarta where he did a series of his typical performances in public space. We witness him carrying out breakneck tricks like lying on the banister of a bridge spanning a rock-filled river, or lying on the pavement of a extremely busy road...

LE CHANT DU SATELLITE

Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
This satirical work is based on the wording of regulations and vocation of a European news/TV station, presented as a paragon of the predominant power of our day and age, the power of information...

THIEVERY AND SONGS

Gernot Wieland
In Thievery and Songs Gernot Wieland has made an exceptionally beautiful, tragicomic and humerous work, framed by the story of a dancer, Hilde Holger, who had to flee from Austria into exile in Bombay in 1938 because she was jewish.
 This collage of moving images is composed of Super 8 film, video, watercolours, drawings, Claymation and his father´s photos...

DAGBOEK VAN EEN KRANKZINNIGE

Jef Cornelis
“Dagboek van een krankzinnige” (Diary of a Madman) is a television adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s eponymous short story. This classic story of modern Russian literature consists of diary entries from Aksenty Ivanovich Popryshyn, a low-ranking civil servant who lived under the repressive government of Tsar Nicholas I...

NA ALLE VLEES: PORTRET VAN EEN WERKWIJZE (JACQ VOGELAAR)

Jef Cornelis
A portrait of the Dutch author and essay writer Jacq Firmin Vogelaar (1944), on the occasion of his ’All Meat’ (1980), a book aiming at nothing less than a thorough deconstruction of recognizable reality in order to set up a new construction with the debris. Vogelaar discusses the philosophy of the fragment, utopia, meat, (linguistic) machines, Francis Bacon...