COLLECTION

KAMERA-KUSSEN

Bert Beyens
A man and a woman are kissing each other by means of a camera. We see two naked actors, a man and a woman, in a closed white space, each holding an identical small camera. They start filming, the lenses held close together. They part, let the cameras slide over each other’s body. After a period of intense observation on both sides the lenses approach again and a black image is formed...

BUNCH OF FLOWERS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte, as always dressed in a dandy-like costume, holds a bouquet of yellow roses. What does he have in mind for them? A few seconds later it becomes clear. Violently he starts spinning them around with the help of a drill. Delmotte keeps on spinning and spinning, until the roses are completely demolished. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

THE LAMPS

Shelly Silver
"The Baroness is not a futurist. She is the future."
 Marcel Duchamp The Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven né Plotz, was an unsung member of the Dada Movement. The Baroness was a poet, artist, vaudeville performer, runaway, rabble rouser, crossdresser, and all around public provocateur...

THE MELANCHOLIC

Hubert Marécaille
Despite his existential difficulties, not knowing what to say to his colleagues during the companyʼs evenings out and spending his leisure time doing crosswords, an office worker tries to convince himself of the success of his life : to have a wife, a house and a job, his dream finally realized, just annoyed by the sleeping pills his doctor prescribes for him to sleep at night and rest – his...

AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC VOL. 4 - FOURTH A-CHRONOLOGY 1937-2005

Guy-Marc Hinant
"We keep goin’ on our adventure with this fourth volume of our anthology. This installment is the pivoting axis of a seven-piece set. We developpe here some other tendencies including new creations from China, Brazil, Norway,Hongria and of course some classics and (un)published material from main composers (Ligeti, Lucier…)...

Oratorium for One Prepared Video Player and Eight Monitors, 1989, Frank Theys © the artist

ORATORIUM FOR ONE PREPARED VIDEO PLAYER AND EIGHT MONITORS

Frank Theys
The video player is positioned in the middle of the room. The magnetic tape rolls out of the player as a big loop which travels over several supports around the player. Surrounding this is a second circle of monitors on pedestals facing the centre of the player and the video loop...

THE WITNESS AND THE WITNESS APPEAL

Ria Pacquée
A serial of three parts, ’The Witness’, ’The Witness Appeal I’ and ’The Witness Appeal II’ address the omnipresence of crime in urban life today. ’The Witness’ portrays a woman standing in green urban spaces, wearing a hooded coat and scarf that partially conceal her face. The camera circles her, passes her and zooms in on her face...

ELECTION DEFEAT

Steve Reinke
Takes us back to our awkward high school years in Toledo, Ohio, 1968....

ORNAMENTE DES WILLENS

Koen Theys
Using the same images as in ‘Mediastudien (nach Heinrich Hoffmann)’, Koen Theys continues here in transforming Hitler’s body as a decorative ornament. The title is a combination of ‘Das Massornament’ by Siegfried Kracauer and ‘Triumph des Willens’ by Leni Riefenstahl. The piano was improvised in realtime with the projection of the video....

THE FUCK

Messieurs Delmotte
Near a busy road Delmotte hangs a big sign on a statue, stating ‘Allez tous vous faire enculer’ (‘Fuck them all’). This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...