COLLECTIE

DE KUNSTENAARS VLAKBIJ / LES ARTISTES À CÔTÉ

Jan Vromman
“De Kunstenaars Vlakbij” (“The artists nearby”) is a series of portraits of unknown artists, produced on the occasion of the exhibition “De Eerste Trede” (“The First Stile”) at Argos Centre for Art & Media (2003). The starting point of this film was the wonderment about the basic idea that so many people are occupied with art in a serious manner...

Schrodinger's Cat, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

SCHRODINGER'S CAT

Peter Finnemore
Peter Finnemore gives his comic visual interpretation of the famous paradox elaborated by Erwin Schrödinger in 1935 to criticize the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics...

TREDICESIMA TRIENNALE DI MILANO

Jef Cornelis
In 1964 the thirteenth Milan Triennial Exhibition took place—at that time the most important international exhibition of contemporary industrial design. The theme was “leisure activities”. Cornelis made a documentary about the event for the national Belgian Dutch-language broadcaster (now VRT)...

PREHISTORIE

Hänzel & Gretzel
On an industrial soundtrack, Hänzel & Gretzel edits saturated footages from broadcasted program about animals with short inserts of animations of dinosaurs. A video about our origins, ancestral roots and neurosis....

MESSAGE DE L'OGRE

Jacques Lennep
Lennep waves flags with black and white stripes — a reference to Daniel Buren? — in various places, next to huge statues....

PIECES FOR TUMBLING WOODBLOCKS

Filip Francis
A series of different experiments at an artistic workshop, a tunnel in Antwerp and in a gallery, with simple oblong pieces of wood, placed one after the other in such a way that, when the first one is touched, a chain-reaction is set off with the pieces falling backwards....

HEIR TO THE EVANGELICAL REVIVAL

Wendy Morris
A great number of my forebears fled or emigrated to South Africa due to their religious convictions. French and Flemish Huguenots in the 17th century, English Protestant missionaries and clergy in the 19th century. Though I am atheist-agnostic-apostate i must trace my South Africanism to the religious convictions of my ancestors. I like church spaces and architecture...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 35. INSTRUCTIONS FOR RECOVERING FORGOTTEN CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

Steve Reinke
How to stick two pieces of candy into one’s nasal orifices with the only help of one’s tongue?...

TOPIC I & II

Pascal Baes
The French film theorist André Bazin used to consider film as a spell of time. He spoke triumphantly of a victory on the irreversibility and the transitoriness of life. Baes’s ’Topic I & II’ (the painterly quality of its dusky images is for a good reason reminiscent of Francis Bacon’s strokes) seems to question these transcendent views on cinematography...

THE STREET

Jef Cornelis
The street is more like a machine of movement equipped to make traffic run smoothly than, in its original and spontaneous form, a breeding ground for life. The efficiency controlling the traffic grid does not merely affect the existing living area, but also the form and pattern of a new way of living. Residential areas have turned into traffic zones; inhabitants are pushed back into their homes...