COLLECTION

INCIDENT. EINE SKIZZE

Andreas Brehmer
Starting point of ’Incident. Eine Skizze’ are fragments of text, sound and image, all related to one another. Thus the length of the text determines the frequence of the images (details of one and the same picture), their colour, as well as text and sound, which, in turn interrupts the rhythm of text and image by its volume....

UPRIGHT DRUM IN WATER

Pieter Geenen
Protagonist in Upright Drum In Water is the age-old Montezuma cypress or ahuehuete* (Taxodium mucronatum) 'El Sargento' in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, which is believed to be planted around the year 1460, in pre-colonial times. To many native people of Mexico this species is sacred, and associated with authority. In 1910 it became the country’s national tree...

WITH OR WITHOUT CLOTHES [PART OF FACTS AND GESTURES VOL. 2]

Messieurs Delmotte
Something strange is happening behind the bushes on a little square. One by one, several pieces of clothing are ejected from the bushes. But when Messieurs Delmotte leaves the bush, he is still wearing all of his clothes. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

Polemics, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

POLEMICS

Peter Finnemore
Peter Finnemore tries to wedge a pole between his head and a tree....

LA JOUISSANCE DES HYSTÉRIQUES

Jan Bucquoy
What do psychoanalysis and movies have in common? What is the girl doing at the tomb of Apollinaire? Why do directors always quarrel with their actresses? What do situationism and marxism have in common? Why go to Bali for holidays? What can we learn from actresses who want to have a role in the movie? Bucquoy: "When my wife left me for my mistress, I had the choice: either have a pile attac...

Shooting into the Sun, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

SHOOTING INTO THE SUN

Ria Pacquée
A video piece made of transferred slide show pictures that Ria Pacquée took over the course of years, a photographic series that is still on-going. In different parts of the world – Belgium, Europe, Marocco, India and different parts in Asia – the artist took frontal pictures of the sun...

EUROPA VON WEITEM

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
Through a number of conversations Europa von weitem relates the Levantine projection of Europe as it is found in the book by Jacqueline Kahanoff Vom Osten das Licht to other projections inside the continents as well as outside them...

BUCKETHEAD

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte makes a somersault, tumbles in a bucket of water with his head, and ends up on his behind, totally soaked, with a bucket for headwear. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

THE RUNAWAY

Jan Dietvorst
A Dutchman speaks with authority about the ideas and customs of 'others'. It is the stereotype contrast between 'us' and 'them'. Gradually the relationship between these two becomes more ambiguous, the protagonists appear to be part of each others mythology....

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 8 : LA BELLE EXCURSION

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
‘Une belle excursion’ (‘A Beautiful Excursion’) follows Steven, Janine, and Bénédicte that go on an excursion. On the coach, the organizer explains he is going to show them a farm that is ran by animals...