COLLECTION

PERFORMING THE BORDER

Ursula Biemann
’Performing the Border’ is a video essay set in the Mexican-US border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. industries assemble their electronic and digital equipment, located right across the border from El Paso, Texas. ’Performing the Border’ looks at the border as both a discursive and a material space constituted through the performance and management of gender relations...

We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass, Julia Meltzer & David Thorne, 2007 © the artists & producer

WE WILL LIVE TO SEE THESE THINGS, OR, FIVE PICTURES OF WHAT MAY COME TO PASS

Julia Meltzer - David Thorne
“We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass” is a documentary video in five parts about competing visions of an uncertain future...

UNDO / REDO VOL. 2

Messieurs Delmotte
Second part of a series of sequences that are the result of a meeting between Messieurs Delmotte and artists with a mental disability. It leads to unexpected situations and poetic performances. Messieurs Delmotte made this performance and video project during an artistic residency at CEC La Hesse (Vielsalm in Belgium)...

GOOD AFTERNOON GENTLEMEN !

Nicolas Provost
A cold, abstract 3D animation set against the warm, confused and dying synthetic voice of HAL 9000 (A Space Odyssey) creates a nightmare sensation....

THE SIMPLE FACT OF NOT BEING A WOMAN (2)

Messieurs Delmotte
After having dressed up as some disco diva in ‘The Simple Fact of Not Being a Woman (1)’, Messieurs Delmotte poses in this early piece again frontally naked for the camera. This time, he is wearing a fake pair of rather explosive breasts…...

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’...

GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM

Miguel Peres dos Santos
There’s an uncanny kind of shock value to hearing a friendly, old-timey television announcer speak of how the “simple people” of the Netherlands Antilles were rescued from “primitive living conditions” when large oil refineries appeared on the islands, ending their “deficient medical care and lack of hygiene...

RELOCATION

Pieter Geenen
Situated at the point where four countries meet (Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Armenia), mount Ararat is Armenia’s most important national symbol, full of mythological meaning and believed to be the place where Noah’s Ark stranded. Once part of a larger Armenia, mount Ararat is now located in Turkey...

THE SURRENDER OF BREDA

Luc Gobyn
Inspired by the painting of Diego Velasquez, ‘The Surrender of Breda’, an image of the mayor of Cuéllar before the start of the bullrunning....

BREAD AND PUPPET THEATRE

Jef Cornelis
A report on the Bread and Puppet Theatre (New York). The troupe leader Peter Schumann speaks about his political commitment and how he chooses his puppets and music. We see a recording of the play ’A Soldier goes to War’ on waste ground in Nancy during the student theatre festival. Part of the BRT (Belgian radio and television broadcast network) television series ’Medium’...