COLLECTIE

DE KLOK SLAAT VIJF: TEXTIELARBEIDER

Jef Cornelis
Some 200 years ago, spinning and weaving used to be a domestic industry. Women and children spun, the men wove. With the invention of the flying shuttle in the eighteenth century, weaving became industrialized. Some time later, in England a semi-mechanic spinning machine was invented. In Belgium, the town of Ghent was the main centre of the textile industry...

KORAAL

Lili Dujourie
Koraal (Coral, 1978) is constructed around the close-up image of fingers slowly peeling an orange, separating the segments of flesh and throwing the fruit’s sections, one by one, off-camera. This concrete action that doesn't represent anything but itself emits a heightened sensuality...

FLASH BACK

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another, or a shift in frames of mind...

OGNI PENSIERO VOLA

Bart Van Dessel - Stefan Franck
Memory is acknowledged by the earliest dance theorists as one of the fundamental principles in dance performances. However, memory is not only the most important requisite of a dancer, it also gives choreography the air of an art, even that of a science. Without memory there is no thought, nor knowledge...

SET [ING]

Peter Downsbrough
In Set [ing] the camera is situated in a closed, empty meeting room in an office building in the Paris business centre of La Défense...

DANCE AROUND NUDE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte’s camera dances around a naked model....

A FILM

Marie José Burki
In her video works, the Swiss artist and photographer Marie José Burki explores how the visible can be classified, formatted and categorized. Burki sets out from observation and plays with audiovisual codes. The arbitrarily entitled A film wants and doesn’t want to be ‘a film’. Conceived deliberately for a projection room — i.e...

Document for the right to the everyday, Ria Pacquée, 1999. Courtesy the Artist

DOCUMENT FOR THE RIGHT TO THE EVERYDAY

Ria Pacquée
This is a recording of a performance, a protest by the faceless, anonymous artist, in the city of Ghent, in reaction to the position she finds herself in, due to the attitudes of the state toward artists in general and to herself in particular. ...

TBS

Michel François

WAAROVER MEN NIET SPREEKT 1: HOME SWEET HOME

Jef Cornelis
’Home Sweet Home’ is a manifesto against the dictatorship of the bourgeois notion of the ideal home. ’I rented a house with a garden’ is still a current slogan, even if people buy apartments, villas and country-houses. People attempt to hide themselves in their homes and as a consequence a kind of social isolation arises that prevents the necessary community spirit...