COLLECTIE

COMMAND PERFORMANCE

Vito Acconci
In this work Acconci again speaks directly to the viewer – “You, you are there in the space, somebody is there, you are there” – wherein the artist makes an attempt to change places with the viewer. The artist lies on his back with his head facing the camera. Or in other words: from the perspective of the viewer he is seen upside-down...

ORIENT PALACE (COLLECTION)

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Orient Palace (Collection) was the initial production of the ongoing body of works Towards a history of the vanishing present, which have been developed in Tunisia since February 2008. It intended to preliminary thematize issues that have been further addressed in following works...

EXCERPT OF A DAY

Mira Sanders
‘Excerpt of a Day’ is an episode of sound from a day, from an everyday life. For Sanders, the perception of the ordinary, while walking, observing, exploring the space, is always a form of enquiry. In ‘Excerpt of a Day’, the real is returned to the possible...

HIER WOONT MIJN HUIS

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven pays tribute to her parents’ house that has recently been obtained by an Antwerp theatre. This film is about Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven’s incapacity to undergo changes over which she has no control. In making this video, she exorcised nostalgia and grief by sharing it...

EXTERN TRAVEL

Jan De Cock
Here De Cock presents a twenty minute, uninterrupted travelling shot. The setting is a typical Belgian B road, with poorly lit pubs and cars speeding in the background. The shot was made near Waterloo, a symbol-laden place that represents death, loss and defeat, but also hope. The work provides little context for what is going on...

THE ASCENT OF MAN. PARTS I, II & III

Jayce Salloum
..The Ascent of Man.. Parts I, II, & III is a body of work which looks at the way reproductions/ representations are used to promote, influence and direct a way of life. Perceptual process is examined and guided through common gesture and implication of context to present a view of scientific/corporate materialistic domination of humanistic concerns...

PANDAMOIABLEUHHH!!!!!

Charlemagne Palestine - GOL
"Entering their 20th year of existence, the GOL orchestra, together with the label Planam, celebrates and starts a new program of collaborations: the Gollaboration series. Volume 2, Pandamoniahbleeummm!!!! marks the encounter with Charlemagne Palestine, pioneer of strumming music and piano maximalism, in the St. Eustache Church in Paris, known for its world famous church organ...

EXPO CHAMPÊTRE

Koen Theys
A white monitor, a white table and chair. The viewer can go and sit in front of the screen. Images out of the oeuvre of the artist appear and move by slowly in a perfect white landscape as if they were floating in a vacuum. Buses, cottages, a table, trees, lighting posts, groups of tourists with their cameras ready, a doorknob. The objects move along in an endless procession...

Meurtre, 2008, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

MEURTRE

Angel Vergara
With a brush, Vergara traces the cinematic images of an illegal dumping spot near the Brussels metro station Beekkant, and the man lying in it. Vergara is turning his attention to the underbelly of society, integrating a scene that is as absurd as it is awkward....

ARRANGEMENT IN GREY

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
The title Arrangement in Grey is an allusion to the painter James Abbott Whistler, who used it to emphasize the ascendance of abstract over figurative composition...