COLLECTION

EUROPE FROM AFAR

Eva Meyer - Eran Schaerf
Through a number of conversations ’Europe from Afar’ 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...

BREATH

Claude Cattelain
A digital representation of the artist breathing.  ...

OTOLITH II

The Otolith Group
As in ’Otolith I’, the narrator in ’Otolith II’ is related to Anjalika Sagar, one of the founders of the Otolith Group. Here, she is looking back from a distant future, while a pressure "high enough to change coal into diamond" functions as a metaphor for the way in which cities will in the future be confronted with continuous population growth...

FIREBALL

Steve Reinke
"Soon a fireball will descend upon the city, destroying everything. I will be one of the ones that will burn the longest and brightest"....

Avant-garde citizens: Samm’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: SAMM’S STORY

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
Samm relates a unique story of flight and survival. After being forcibly recruited as a soldier in Liberia, he manages to escape imprisonment and certain death, to find himself unexpectedly in Rotterdam. His experiences with the Dutch immigration and asylum system, as well as the criminal justice system, read as a saga that would be impossible to make up....

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
In ‘Dance of the 7 Veils’, a fragment of Vanrunxt’s choreography ‘Sur scène’, the dancer performs his solo in a park in Schilde. Van Kerckhoven films the six minutes of choreography in one take. For three successive days, at six in the morning, at noon and at six in the evening, this scenario is repeated. These three takes are superimposed...

BIËNNALE SINT-NIKLAAS

Jef Cornelis
For the 14th episode of “Zoeklicht” (Searchlight) on BRT (Belgian Radio & Televison), Jef Cornelis and his team visited the 2nd Biennial of Sint-Niklaas. With his well-known critical stance towards the institutional management of art, Cornelis guides us through the open-air sculpture exhibition in the city park of Sint-Niklaas...

INTER[POSE, Peter Downsbrough, 2009 © the artist & producer

INTER[POSE

Peter Downsbrough
inter[POSE is a video project shot off-season in Deal, Kent (UK). It focuses on the town’s shoreline and the 1950s modernist pier (the last to be built in the UK)...

STARFIGHTER

Wolf Vostell
'Starfighter' contains images of war scenes, ranging from simply figurative to invisible or almost erased. The images were filmed directly from the television screen with a Super 8 camera: blurred footage on a harrowing sound that illustrates particularly well a point Marshall McLuhan made: the media subtly manipulate information. (Berta Sichel)...

SMELL THE FLOWERS WHILE YOU CAN

Johan Grimonprez
Johan Grimonprez transposes an extract from Meg Stuart’s compelling choreography ‘No Longer Ready-Made’ to the anonymous waiting room of a railway station. This colourless space along with nameless travellers provides the excellent setting for Stuart’s hectic and intense convulsions...