COLLECTION

R… NE RÉPOND PLUS

Jean-Pierre Dardenne - Luc Dardenne
A rousing examination of free radio culture in Europe: "Were free radio stations created because the mass media could no longer make love?" the narrator asks...

FLEUVE CONGO À KINSHASA

Marie-Françoise Plissart
’Un jour, l’avenir nous donnera raison’ (One Day, the Future Will Show We Are Right) will be a series of portraits of rivers. The selection will be based on their historical, ecological and geopolitical importance. Each river represents a local challenge which, at the same time, corresponds with a universal one...

SNUFF COQ

Messieurs Delmotte
Delmotte makes his own snuff-movie by killing a rooster with a sabre and throwing the corpse in a canal. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

La chambre blanche, 1989, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE

Angel Vergara
During the opening of Ronny Van de Velde’s Gallery in Antwerp, Vergara’s alter ego Straatman sat beneath his white canvas. He was posing for a work by Marcel Broodthaers....

Rue foire, 1987-1989 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

FILMS ACTIONS

Angel Vergara
These pieces are recordings of Angel Vergara’s early demonstrations, the first time they have been shot. There were already photos before. Here for the first time, he films original photographs with a super8 camera...

DOCUMENTA 6

Peter de Leuw - Hansgeorg Dickmann
Part 1: documenta 6 1977, 40’26", German spoken, English subtitles. Part 2: documenta 6 - Ad hoc Diskussion nach der Eröffnung der Documenta 6 1977, 44’50", German spoken, English subtitles....

HOSTAGE: THE BACHAR TAPES (ENGLISH VERSION)

The Atlas Group - Walid Raad
"Hostage: The Bachar Tapes (English version) is a multi-part videotape about ’The Western Hostage Crisis’. The crisis refers to the abduction and detention in Lebanon in the 1980’s and early 1990’s of western men like Terry Anderson and Terry Waite by ’Islamic militants’...

Veronique Depiece, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

VÉRONIQUE DEPIESSE

Angel Vergara
Véronique Depiesse is asked whether artists are free, liberal, libertarian or something else. According to her, they are opportunists "in the positive sense of the word". She is looking for an alternative word for the term freedom....

DE KUS #1

Frank Theys
The 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...

DOCUMENTA 5

Jef Cornelis
Documenta 5 in 1972 could have gone into history as the first instance of an exhibition as a spectacle. Supervised by Harald Szeemann from Switzerland, art made its way back to the museum. The main issue at hand was the economic, political and medial significance of the event for Kassel. It was as if the avant-garde was buried for good...