COLLECTION

THE RED TAPES

Vito Acconci
The Red Tapes is Acconci’s masterwork, a three-part epic that is one of the major works in video. Designed originally for video projection, the work is structured to merge video space -- the close-up -- with filmic space -- the landscape...

Question blanche, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

QUESTION BLANCHE

Angel Vergara
Straatman is sitting in a niche of a white wall. He hardly moves during the recording. Other people in addition to him are present in the room. Occasionally, someone crosses the screen....

MOBY DICK

Jan Bultheel
Jan Bulteel gave the subtitle “a sentimental epic” to his oeuvre, and that is precisely to what we are treated here. A sailor who has got into low water sets out on a quest to find the love of his life in the port of Antwerp. But with merely an old photograph of her in his pocket, he doesn’t get very far...

EGO

Nicolas Provost
After a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole. The images originate from existing films such as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the soundtrack offers no redemption. A dystopian vision of the future?...

L'OISEAU CROQUÉ

Jacques Lennep
The work tells about an image of a grapevine that is so true to nature that birds crash into it....

TWO TIMES

Manon de Boer
De Boer invited the Brussels-based pianist Jean-Luc Fafchamps to play John Cage’s eponymous composition ‘4’33”’ twice in front of a live audience in the Brussels’ studio space of P.A.R.T.S. (The Performing Arts Research and Training Studios)...

La scene à lieu derriere le stade d'action, 2006, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

LA SCÈNE À LIEU DERRIÈRE LE STADE D'ACTION

Angel Vergara
The text to which the title is referring is a text by the French writer and painter Novarina, which the poet recites here. At the beginning and end of the movie, ’O Superman’ by Laurie Anderson is heard...

DIE WINDE

Wolf Vostell

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...

DAMES EN HEREN JAN FABRE

Jef Cornelis
An analytic and subdued critical summary of the work of Jan Fabre, on the occasion of the opening night of the opera Das Glas im Kopf wird vom Glas in March 1990. The topoi and motives in his work are commented on by Annie Declerck and accompanied by images from his body of work, from MoneyPerformance (1979) to Das Interview das Stirbt (1989)...