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Statute|Dervish, Frank Theys, 2002. Courtesy the Artist
STATUTE|DERVISH
Frank TheysThe video shows the image of a man who explodes as a statue on a square in Bruges. This image was made for the projection screen on the outside wall of the new Concertgebouw in Bruges, within the scope of the ‘Octopus’ exhibition....
Burn, Baby, Burn!, Frank Theys, 1999. Courtesy the Artist
BURN, BABY, BURN!
Frank TheysFrank Theys’s surreal work presents the human body as you’ve never seen it before. Several naked people are recorded during movement, sometimes like dancing. These images have been twisted and contorted, like a cross between a kaleidoscope and the Hall of Mirrors at the circus. The shapes are twisted into curves, into extended lines, into circles and petalled flowers...
LIED VAN MIJN LAND
Koen Theys - Frank TheysThe German 19th century composer Richard Wagner wrote the operas Ring des Nibelungen and Parcifal in order to shape his vision on the relationships in society. Koen and Frank Theys have treated Wagner’s Ring with an immoral curiosity and have enriched it with personal and contemporary themes...
NACHTKOORTS
Frank Theys"Night fever" is a portrait of a character with anxiety disorder. The installation is inspired on the story The Cave by Franz Kafka. It’s depicting a secluded man, locked up in his own world he cultivates his fear. Leaving his apartment he tentatively reaches out for help...
Study with Flies, Frank Theys, 2002. Courtesy the Artist
STUDY WITH FLIES
Frank TheysThis video shows up to four digitally generated flies seen flying in a contained space against a discoloured white background. They move closer and further away from the screen, moving somewhat haltingly, and sometimes get just a little bit too close to the camera screen... This image study is a surreal and unorthodox piece of work...
TECHNOCALYPS
Frank TheysTechnocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 3: THE DIGITAL MESSIAH
Frank TheysTechnocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
DE KUS #4
Frank TheysThe Visible Human Project was started in the nineties by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) when digital imaging of the human body became possible in a technical sense. It was the complete anatomical database of a male cadaver that first appeared on the Web, consisting of cross-sectional slices of the body at one millimetre intervals. Shortly after a female version was published...
Kolonel Korsakov, Frank Theys, 1992. Courtesy the Artist
Oratorium for One Prepared Video Player and Eight Monitors, 1989, Frank Theys © the artist
ORATORIUM FOR ONE PREPARED VIDEO PLAYER AND EIGHT MONITORS
Frank TheysThe video player is positioned in the middle of the room. The magnetic tape rolls out of the player as a big loop which travels over several supports around the player. Surrounding this is a second circle of monitors on pedestals facing the centre of the player and the video loop...
Het Kabinet, Frank Theys, 2000. Courtesy the Artist
HET KABINET
Frank TheysOne of the applications which nanotechnology may be in a position to offer in the future is the possibility of redesigning one’s surroundings based on the issue at hand. You formulate your own design on a computer, pass it onto a couple of nano-robots, and they do the work for you. Based on this idea, some ideas for a consultation room are proposed....
Dr. Yang Dan's Cat Scan, Frank Theys, 2000. Courtesy the Artist
DR. YANG DAN'S CAT SCAN
Frank TheysThe installation is an ode to the Chinese-American neurologist Dr. Yang Dan, the first person to succeed in draining an image from the brain. With this installation Frank Theys reflects on the implications of her scientific research in the context of art philosophy...
TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 2: PREPARING FOR THE SINGULARITY
Frank TheysTechnocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 1: TRANSHUMAN
Frank TheysTechnocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...
DE KUS #1
Frank TheysThe image consists of successive sections (magnetic resonance scans) of a couple that is French kissing. We can see the kiss cut up in a movement from one ear to the other. A video beam projects the video image on a polyester plate that is hanging down in the middle of the room. The audience can walk around the projection so that the image itself can be seen as a section as well...
AVATAR, 2001, Frank Theys © the artist
AVATAR
Frank Theys‘AVATAR’ is an interactive parade of avatar creations designed by Frank Theys for the occasion of the fashion event Mode2001, Landed/Geland in Antwerp. This particular video is an editing of the avatar pictures....
SELF-PORTRAIT
Frank TheysA man keeps walking up and down from his computer to his window. He does not have a head. Blood is rhythmically gushing from the gaping wound, a hilarious and metaphoric self-portrait of the author. This video was shown on five screens spread out over the city of Courtrai (Belgium) for the Beeldenstorm exhibition and was used by Walter Verdin for his ’Title Safe’ project....
De Kus #3 (Kristalkus), Frank Theys, 1997. Courtesy the Artist
DE KUS #3 (KRISTALKUS)
Frank TheysThe third instalment of Frank Theys’ series 'The Kiss'. In this silent short film that is part of an installation to be played in a loop, we see a couple intensively French kissing. Using the medium of the MRI scan, the computer translates this image into a 3D-object, spinning around itself endlessly....
DE EZEL VAN BURIDAN
Frank Theys - Bedrich Eisenhoet'Buridan’s Donkey' was created in the minds and the speeches of eighteen boys and girls. The video shows some people who have never met before and, setting out from their own emotions and thoughts, tell each other about their passions. Three images doom out of the chaos: the wood, the church and the factory. The wood represents innocence and obviousness, disturbed by conscience...
LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 1: DAS RHEINGOLD
Frank Theys - Koen TheysThis is the first part of the diptych Lied van mijn Land (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. In ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’, an interpretation of a germanic mythological epic, the composer associates power with the possession of gold...
LIED VAN MIJN LAND - DEEL 2: DIE WALKÜRE
Frank Theys - Koen TheysThis is the second part of the diptych ’Lied van mijn Land’ (’Song of my Soil’), based on Richard Wagner’s operas ’Der Ring der Nibelungen’ and ’Parcifal’. At Hunding’s...
