COLLECTION

ERNA LENDVAI-DIRCKSEN. FLANDERN. DAS GERMANISCHE VOLKSGESICHT

Gorik Lindemans
Gorik Lindemans is obsessed with books, or rather with looking at books. In his video he guides us through this fascinating picture-book ‘Flandren. Das Germanische Volksgesicht’, with splendid photographs of Flemish farmers and landscapes from the early forties by Erna Lendvai-Dircksen...

The Eternal Frame, Ant Farm, 1975. Courtesy Electronic Art Intermix (EAI), New York

THE ETERNAL FRAME

Ant Farm - T.R. Uthco
The Eternal Frame is an examination of the role that the media plays in the creation of (post)modern historical myths. For T.R. Uthco and Ant Farm, the iconic event that signified the ultimate collusion of historical spectacle and media image was the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963...

VIDÉO HEBDO 3

Claude Cattelain
A teabag is emptied, rolled, burned and it flies away....

A PLACE TO BE

Peter Downsbrough
A Place to Be is a dialectical exploration of two specific locations and urban conditions, one on the interior, the other on the exterior, while the soundtrack moves back and forth between ambient sounds and music (Satie’s piano music for instance)...

FOULES (DANS L’ATELIER DE CHRISTOPHE BERHAULT)

Lucile Desamory
Foules is a promenade through the atelier and work of visual artist Christophe Berhault....

JAN FABRE, DIRIGENT VAN HET TOEVAL

John Heymans - Peter Scholten
Starting in the visual arts, Fabre was immediately attracted to other artistic disciplines: theatre, performance, installation art, action theatre, dance and opera. Over the last 15 years Fabre, quintessentially a performance artist, has become a 'director of coincidence', as he himself puts it...

IJSBREKER 05: HET CIRCUS HUILT

Eric Blanckaert - Mark De Geest - Freddy Coppens - Jackie Claeys
The circus, a world where a laugh and a tear might well run into one another more easily than anywhere else. After the Second World War, there were 14 circuses left in Belgium, a number which turned out to be halved after a mere decade...

Gand Ouest, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GAND OUEST

Angel Vergara
Vergara filmed this piece in looking westward over Ghent. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies an open catalogue of Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition held in Ghent in 1986. With a brush in his hand he traces the images with gestures that suggest he is painting...

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

Bo Vloors
"You know what I mean" observes the entrance of a mosque in Saint Louis, Senegal. The audio, emphasized with subtitles, is a live conversation between two European citizens who reflect on the intensity of their experience and what they see....

WHITE HOMELAND COMMANDO

Elizabeth LeCompte
‘White Homeland Commando’ was written for the Wooster Group by associate Michael Kirby. It takes the familiar terrain of network action drama but tilts its playing field...