COLLECTION

THE THREAD

Hans Op de Beeck
A Chinese proverb says that an invisible thread connects those destined to meet, despite time, place and circumstances. The thread can be tightened or tangled, but will never be broken. Taking this clear and simple metaphor as my starting point, I created a video as a visual love poem about a punk girl and boy who grow old together. Love and death here go hand in hand...

THE EPHEMERIST

An van. Dienderen - Didier Volckaert
“Ne détruisez jamais un document” Ferdinand Vander Haeghen (1830 – 1913) pleaded when he started the archive “vliegende bladen” (ephemera) as a Ghent university librarian in the 19th century...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 27. DISTURBED SLEEP

Steve Reinke
We may all see patients who complain of fatigue and ask us to help them get rid of the insomnia which they feel causes it....

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN

Koen Theys
The video-installation ‘The Final Countdown’ contains more than 2000 clips found on YouTube, each showing an individual interpreting the celebrated opening tune of the song ‘The Final Countdown’, created by the rock band ‘Europe’...

Inventur / Invocation. I have watched ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist

INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE WATCHED ...

Ralo Mayer
What is the difference between watching and looking? Ranging from familiar modern technologies like Skype webchats and popular films to the favourite subjects of poetry like sunsets and landscapes, Mayer invites reflection on the process of watching and how it may shape the object....

Kolonel Korsakov, Frank Theys, 1992. Courtesy the Artist

KOLONEL KORSAKOV

Frank Theys

NATIONAL LIBERATION FOOTBALL

Amina Menia
On November 18, 2009, the Algerian football team won a match against Egypt by a goal to nil, thus ensuring a place in the 2010 World Cup. Public jubilation was all the greater, given that both countries were experiencing political tensions...

POLYFONISTEN

Stefaan Decostere
Polyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In ’Polyfonisten’, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...

WAR IS OVER

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
In making contact with this major historical event, the sight of someone who has experienced battle has to be the ultimate outcome. Likewise a film about a cemetery can’t therefore do without the sight of someone dead. The search for unknown soldiers in the battlefield often is undertaken with opposing motivations...