COLLECTIE
Zoek collectie
S*CKMYP [4 SHORT FILMS VERSION]
Kurt D'HaeseleerS*CKMYP drops the spectator in a world continuously bombarded with digital fragmentation bombs. People wander through a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of trembling bodies and mutating buildings until they are swallowed by a yawning void. Lost pixels nestle like parasites under the skin and drag them through an everyday world that looks strange beyond recognition...
PROPS FOR DRAMA: PLOT HOLE
Sarah & Charles'A plot hole is a gap or inconsistency in the storyline that contradicts or breaks the originally set narrative logic'. In an abstract visual set-up of doors, walls and windows, we watch an actor change into two different characters while a voiceover coordinates his movements. The front- and backstage of the archetypal stage setting have been put up alongside each other...
REAL TO REAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Messieurs DelmotteIn ’Real to real photography’ a young man is shown, among others, blowing a whistle. Furthermore the image of a woman onscreen is half covered, a man is bombarded with fruit, a woman smokes a cigarette without taking it from her mouth and a head disappears behind a mountain of whipped cream...
ALFRED LAOUREUX, COLLECTIONNEUR
Jacques LennepVideo, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...
Text, Ria Pacquée, 2011. Courtesy the Artist
TEXT
Ria PacquéePictures of a slide show transferred to video of announcements, graffiti, brand names and random texts in different parts of the world and in a wide range of languages. Together they function as a touching, often humorous and sometimes absurd mosaïque on daily life and human activity....
CHAPITRE 2 - NOW WON
Charley CaseThe DVD project NOW WON elaborates on the seven-part video project Entre (2001 - 2004), in which Case explores the themes of duality and human interrelations. “When the principles of past and future are abandoned, the present can be fully embraced. Time is suspended. Duality becomes unity, symbolised by a spherical shape. Opposites meet in a balance...
ATOMIC TREE
Charley Case“We belong to this tree, we are all connected to the very same trunk. Even when we are far away, like the leaves, it’s still the same story. When a leaf falls, it turns into humus and so the cycle starts once again.” (Charley Case) ...
A SONG OF LONGING
Wendy MorrisA story of a search and a song. It is three hundred years since the artist’s family fled France when she returns to the villages in which they once lived. She walks a circle around these three small villages looking for a memory of their absence. She pays attention to the less obvious. She looks for clues in the weeds that grow on the verges. She listens for sounds that are missing....
VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MAGNÉTOSCOPE
Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique AhrimanThe androgyn-looking sales man in this video clip tries to sell the viewer a device that can record the sounds and images of every television....
