COLLECTION

LINGUA IGNOTA

Edith Dekyndt
Hildegard von Bingen lived during the 12th Century. She was a Benedictine and a precursor, a poet and a doctor, who invented a language that she alone could write and speak, the lingua ignota. This language who has survived thanks to the description given by the Holy Roman Catholic Church in an eponymous book is the title of a video of Edith Dekyndt which features a hand mirror...

SCISSORS

Messieurs Delmotte
Armed with two pairs of scissors, Messieurs Delmotte works on a tree’s new hair style....

CONFETTIS FOETUS MAN

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video performance in which Monsieur Delmotte is packed in a plastic bag, like a foetus in the womb, filled with confetti. Starting with his left arm, he frees himself from the bag and the confetti. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

Promethée, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PROMÉTHÉE

Angel Vergara
Vergara hangs up a banner of cut-out contours of human figures in a street adjacent to the Quays: the street of Micheline Szwajcer, in Antwerp-South. The human figures are trying to grab a yellow sphere. The title of the work suggests that they represents Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods. Initially Walter Swennen films while Angel Vergara holds the banner, and later the two swap roles....

WHITE LADY

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
A videodance inspired by David Lynch’s 'The Elephant Man'. Though not clearly obvious in the piece, Nyst presents five tableaux that recall John Merrick’s mother’s life. The piece, openly Romantic and dramatic, flirts with the border of kitsch...

CHAPITRE 2 - NOW WON

Charley Case
The DVD project NOW WON elaborates on the seven-part video project Entre (2001 - 2004), in which Case explores the themes of duality and human interrelations. “When the principles of past and future are abandoned, the present can be fully embraced. Time is suspended. Duality becomes unity, symbolised by a spherical shape. Opposites meet in a balance...

IDIOT'S BREW

Antonin De Bemels
The videos by Antonin de Bemels are - literally - attempts: explorations of the body and gestures, of rhythm and movement. He is fascinated by the importance of a single image and interweaves all kinds of visual stimuli in a complex associative network by means of the 'scrubbing' effect, the visual equivalent of auditive 'scratching'...

LAGER GELEGEN WEILAND

Danny Matthys
Troubled by the heavy equipment, a cameraman is filming a meadow lying low as he walks around, a slope on the left, barbed wire on the right. A second camera is recording from the centre. ...

A]S

Peter Downsbrough
As basic ingredients: five words and a typographical phenomenon or word-thing ‘(A]S itself)’; two black and white steady cam images, and in between them one in colour, all featuring the same fixed camera image shot somewhere along the railway, from the same point of view — but with a different train passing; or so it seems...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 19 : JEANINE ET STEVEN EN VACANCES

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
During the vacation of Jeanine and Steven, Cowboy and Indian are supposed to keep an eye on things at the farm. However, the animals will not let themselves be tamed that easily...