COLLECTIE

ARISE! WALK DOG EAT DONUT

Ken Kobland
"Very simply the piece is about going on... going on in the face of It. And about winding up where one began. We begin with a sort of reminiscence, projecting film footage from twenty years ago. We end by revisiting the landscape of that earlier footage, suggesting, I suppose, that over the years we often don’t come very far from where we begin...

CARTOON FOR THOSE WHO HAVE A CERTAIN FONDNESS FOR IDEAS, BUT ARE TIRED OF THINKING

Steve Reinke
Simple line drawings form and wriggle against a light purple background, each linked to a verbal proposal. “Every door eventually leads to the world, but we have no doors.” The interstices between words, scribbles and desire explored....

BRAHMA BRAZIL

Luc Gobyn
A serial of one minute interview in the Circuit Interlagos during the Grand Prix of Brazil Formule One. Between the interview are poetic views of the popular situation in Sao Paulo....

OBJETS PERDUS TROUVÉS

Mira Sanders
Early 2018, Mira Sanders created Théorie des Objets—a series of inkjet prints and drawings that translate her observations of objects, based on the book Théorie des Objets (1972) by Abraham A. Moles...

IT WILL BE ALL RIGHT IF YOU COME AGAIN, ONLY NEXT TIME DON’T BRING ANY GEAR, EXCEPT A TEA KETTLE…

Johan Grimonprez
The multi-channel installation ‘It will be all right if you come again, only next time don’t bring any gear, except a tea kettle…’ (1994-2004) explores the creation of new mythologies in the wake of Western imperialism...

EVER MEULEN

Jan Florizoone
A portrait of the Belgian illustrator and comic strip author Ever Meulen (1946). This is the third part in a series of artist portraits that Jan Florizoone created in the late 1990’s....

A FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH OSCAR

Mira Sanders
The video A First Encounter with Oscar is a reconstruction of Sanders’ physical encounter with Oscar Niemeyer’s Rashid Karami International Fair in Tripoli, Lebanon. In the image, Mira Sanders’ body and camera play with the lines the architect has drawn. The diptych editing confronts the various points of view, engages them in a dialogue and creates an imbalance...

LE CALVAIRE DE R. MUTT

Jacques Lennep
In Le calvaire de R. Mutt, Lennep plays the fictitious character R. Mutt — the pseudonym Marcel Duchamp used as author of the Fountain. We watch R. Mutt climbing a mountain with a urinal on his shoulder....

BANG! JAMES LEE BYARS RE-ENACTMENT

Cel Crabeels
For the exhibition 'ORBIS TERRARUM—Ways of Worldmaking' (Museum Plantijn Moretus, Antwerp, 2000, curated by Moritz Küng), Cel Crabeels made this video re-enacting James Lee Byars’ well known piece 'Smithereens: the remnants of an exploded globe' that was on view in Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1993, Brussels...

CONTAINER 05: HET CYNISME VAN ERNEST CLAES

Jef Cornelis
A discussion about the Belgian author Ernest Claes, starting from the consideration that his work is liable to a double reduction in the way it is received. First of all, based on his book ’De Witte’, he is considered as a protagonist of heimat literature, whereas his work as a journalist is excluded...