COLLECTIE

CENTRAL ALBERTA

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Bestgore.com (BG) was created by Slovak-Canadian Mark Marek in 2008. The website hosts explicit photographic and video material of events including murders, suicides, torture, mutilation and horrific accidents. With an estimated 40 million yearly visits, BG is currently the biggest shock site in the world. Through authored opinion and user comments, the website exalts extreme ideas...

THAT'S THE WAY IT IS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte further explores his fascination for the hidden fantasies of the human body, with the intention of exposing it completely. In ’That’s the way it is’ parts of the body keep coming into focus, deprived of their context, conspicuously in the foreground of city views....

Libreria, 2007 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

LIBRERIA

Angel Vergara
A bookseller poses in front of his bookshop in Castelló. With his brush, Vergara traces the image of the shop and the seller....

SCISSORS

Messieurs Delmotte
Armed with two pairs of scissors, Messieurs Delmotte works on a tree’s new hair style....

Rue foire, 1987-1989 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

FILMS ACTIONS

Angel Vergara
These pieces are recordings of Angel Vergara’s early demonstrations, the first time they have been shot. There were already photos before. Here for the first time, he films original photographs with a super8 camera...

CORBION, BELGIUM, WHERE RIMBAUD AND VERLAINE LIVED TOGETHER IN THE WOODS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
When visiting Corbion near the French-Belgian border, where the ruins still could be seen tucked away in the forest, of the little cottage where French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud lived together for a short while 100 years earlier, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back...

MOLTEN BALL

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

LETTRE OUVERTE

Jacques Louis Nyst
A short film in which the camera films a photograph of a nude woman on a table in a living-room. The voice-over describes, in French and English, how an avarage day in her life looks like....

NOTES ON BEING ON THE WAY

Mira Sanders
The film presents notes on “being on the way” from 'Un journal d'un usager de l'espace. Het traceren van op en rond een Heerweg' ('Diary of a User of Space. Tracing on and around a Roman road'), the thesis Sanders is working on to get her PhD in the Arts...

PROVISORY OBJECT 01

Edith Dekyndt
Between 1997 and 2004 Edith Dekyndt created a triptych of three short videos in which a soap bubble is stretched between two hands. This is the first part of the triptych, featuring the artists own hands. The shape of the iridescent soap bubble changes and reflects the light in various ways. Using simple techniques, Dekyndt appeals to a poetic dimension....