COLLECTION

VOICE-OVER

Roy Villevoye
Set in the Asmat region in the Indonesian part of New Guinea, Voice-Over overlays the construction of a traditional wooden sculpture with a phone call about a sales deal gone wrong. The death of Roy Villevoye’s Papuan friend Omoma is the reason for the creation of the sculpture, a ritual that also functions as a memorial ceremony...

VEGETATIVE STATES: AN ATTEMPT TO INSTIL AND MEASURE ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN HOUSEHOLD PLANTS

Steve Reinke - John Marriott
Seductive and eerie, ’Vegetative States’ observes an experiment in which a lush, potted Peace Lily is wired to a polygraph (lie detector) device and is then shown hypnotic art videos, while a technician monitors its responses. This attempt to influence and measure perception quickly morphs into a genre blurring deconstruction of point of view...

DRIE BLINDE MUIZEN

Jef Cornelis
A report on three collectors of contemporary art: Martin Visser, Frits Becht and Hubert Peeters. They talk about their buying policy, how they built up their collections and their favourite works and artists. Original broadcast date: 18/06/1968 Content: 00’00" Leader. 00’07" Titles...

Jokes, 2000, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

JOKES

Angel Vergara
Vergara asks the artists participating in ’Over the Edges’ to tell a joke. While he is in his car, he tells one himself in French and Dutch....

GREAT HOUSE

Didier Volckaert
"This project finds its inspiration in a journey to Egypt, my second visit to the country. Purposefully I have chosen a tourist trip: a five days cruise on the Nile from Luxor to Aswan, six days in Cairo and five days in Hurgada. I had brought 1 photo- camera [B/W and color slides] and three S8-camera’s [B/W and color celluloid]...

UN VOYAGE À TRAVERS N-DIMENSIONS

Mira Sanders
In this travelogue I wonder by way of drawing a section of a photograph of Maastricht, what the concept dimension could mean. The film shows an investigation where a thinking and making is happening. I invite in the end the spectator to think further about the dimension in between the projection and the place where s/he sits....

Les artistes, 2010, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

MONDAY: FIREWORK; TUESDAY: ILLUMINATIONS; WEDNESDAY: REVOLUTION

Angel Vergara
In the exhibition ’Monday: Firework; Tuesday: Illuminations; Wednesday: Revolution’, shown in Argos in spring 2010, Angel Vergara concentrated on history, and more specifically on the early days of the Belgian monarchy and its cultural, social-political and economic context...

SUDDEN DEATH

Wim Catrysse
The video installations by Wim Catrysse appeal physically and directly to the spectator’s world of experience. Through simple technical means he realises highly suggestive images, which play with the existential context of the individual. His attention is principally aimed at corporeal expression, at the language of the body...

SHARING A SONORITY

Charlemagne Palestine
"Alga Marghen proudly presents a new chapter in the documentation series of Charlemagne Palestine’s historical works...

THE DEAD WEIGHT OF A QUARREL HANGS

Walid Raad
A videotape in three parts exploring the possibilities and limits of writing and imaging a history of the Lebanese civil wars (1975-1991). Setting up the viewer Ra’ad constructs a tape fictionally based on facts, but not necessarily his, they are hysterical symptoms of sorts that present imaginary events constructed out of innocent and everyday material...