COLLECTION

VISUALAX

Axel Claes
A video-critique on the concept of exploring the world as being ‘Im Wunderkabinet der Kulturen’. This enchantment made of separations and exotisms is present in many actual urban narratives and alternative cultural work pieces. It is deeply rooted in 19th century Western concepts on the other. Every village slowly slides into the archipelago of cultures...

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...

L'ECOLE DES PICKPOCKETS

Sven Augustijnen
The filmmaker focuses on a daily and well-known hassle in public spaces, namely the phenomenon of pickpockets. Two professional thieves give a master-class in the art of pickpocketism in front of the camera. A video between fiction and reality....

OPEN BOOK

Vito Acconci
Acconci’s unnaturally wide-open mouth is filmed in extreme close-up, which puts the viewer uncomfortably close to the artist. Wrestling to keep his mouth open, his words are directed at the viewer. His incomprehensible voice forms an invitation: “I’m not closed, I’m open. Come in... I’ll accept you, I won’t shut down, I won’t shut you out.....

HOME MOVIES

Vito Acconci
The autobiographical film ‘Home Movies’ reveals the psychological circuit that Acconci weaves into many of his works. It is a meta-document in which Acconci presents his work in chronological order from 1969. Seated in the dark with his back to the cameral and his face to the screen, he projects slides of earlier works...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 4 : UNE SÉANCE DE POSE

Vincent Patar - Stéphane Aubier
Cowboy is unpleasantly woken up by a fly buzzing around the room. Battling with the beast, he wakes up Indian. A little later the two men get a new neighbour: the art gallery/hobby shop PicPicasso, run by Saint Joseph and his particularly short-skirted assistant. Once Indian has purchased an easel, canvas, paint and brushes, the entire village feels the call to start up painting...

CONTAINER 10: EXOTISMEN

Jef Cornelis
A conversation about the predominantly Western fascination with exotic cultures. According to Herman Pollig, who made a number of exhibitions about exoticism under the header “Exotic worlds, European fantasies”, exoticism gets in the way of an objective understanding of alien cultures...

SPAZIERGAENGER MIT HUND - SONSBEEK 86

Jef Cornelis
A report on the art manifestation of Sonsbeek 86, falling back on the sense of security of the park. These natural surroundings had an atmosphere not unlike that of a museum. Some of the works had been positioned ’out in the open’ in the park. Most of the objects, however, could be considered in specifically designed glass pavilions...

NELLA FANTASIA

Lukas Marxt
The film begins with an image of impenetrable light gray: fog that doesn’t clear. Or possibly the surface of water? This is accompanied by a synthesizer, which establishes a few points of reference that relate to narrative fiction film: Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind or, though faintly, Kubrick’s Apocalypse Now...

Veronique Depiece, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

VÉRONIQUE DEPIESSE

Angel Vergara
Véronique Depiesse is asked whether artists are free, liberal, libertarian or something else. According to her, they are opportunists "in the positive sense of the word". She is looking for an alternative word for the term freedom....