COLLECTION

AND [BACK

Peter Downsbrough
AND [BACK ‘plays’ a complex ‘game’ with the words AND and BACK, where the word BACK sometimes functions as indicator, sometimes as trigger, sometimes as a comment on what is happening on-screen...

WRITING DESIRE

Ursula Biemann
Writing Desire is about the rapport between words and body and the creation of desire. The fast-paced video links the writing of romantic desire by means of electronic communication technologies to the increasing disembodiment of sexuality and commercialized gender relations. The booming bride market emerges as a site where the virtual and the physical exchange of bodies converge...

LE CORPS VERBAL: UN VOYAGE DANS L'UNIVERS DE MARCEL MOREAU (COURT-MÉTRAGE)

Charley Case - Manuela de Tervarent
The writings of the francophone Belgian writer Marcel Moreau (°1934, Boussu) are little known to the larger audience. Although he is considered a marginal writer with an idiosyncratic, instinctive, both organic and lyrical style, he is the author of a considerable body of work. Case and de Tervarent made this short but sparkling portrait that shows the writer in his daily environment...

THE MARCH, THE BURDEN, THE DESERT, THE BOREDOM, THE ANGER

Els Dietvorst
A documentary fiction with non-professional actors about their lives and occupations in a poor neighbourhood in Brussels....

PROVISORY OBJECT 03

Edith Dekyndt
Like the pieces ‘Provisory Object 01’ and ‘Provisory Object 02’, Dekyndt’s video shows the membrane of a soap bubble, in this case stretched between the thumb and finger of a hand...

MADNESS AND OTHER TALES

Grace Schwindt
The fragility of the human body is addressed in Madness and Other Tales, a live performance in which soprano Lisa Cassidy and Vertixe Sonora Ensemble perform a new score written by Grace Schwindt. This piece is based on the 'Aria of Madness' from Gaetano Donizetti’s 19th-century opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor'...

AFTER ALL

Charley Case
In ‘(After all)’ the faces of several people are mounted one after the other, partly illuminated by flickering fires. An elderly man appears on the screen every now and then, holding a torch. The sound in the background reminds of dark shamanist throat-singing and the video as a whole gives the impression of an age-old ritual in a primeval forest....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 95. GHOSTS

Steve Reinke
Periodically, ghosts inhabit the bodies of the living....

DAVID HOCKNEY

Jef Cornelis
In 1969, David Hockney made 39 etchings based on fairytales by the Grimm brothers. Having chosen them for their straightforwardness, Hockney drew up his own interpretations of these folk stories, with countless explicit references to the work of other artists, such as Breughel, Hieronymus Bosch or Leonardo da Vinci...

FRITERIE (SÉRIE): MADE IN B. – B. BY NIGHT – GOING TO B. – B TO ME

Emilio López-Menchero
A series of video sequences on Emilio López-Menchero’s favourite chips shops. The work was presented in the frame of the exhibition FOODART-PLACES IN BETWEEN (2000) when the city of Bergen, Norway, was European Capital of Culture...