COLLECTIE

LOST NATION, JANUARY 1999

Johan Grimonprez
In January 1999, at the height of the Lewinsky-Clinton affair, Herman Asselberghs and Dieter Lesage asked me if’d be in for a trip to Lost Nation. They explained this was part of a project called LOST NATION they were setting up in Brussels: a place slash library slash installation about vanished nations such as Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, USSR, and Zaire...

PARKING 2004

Aurore Dal Mas
Aurore Dal Mas is fascinated with the vocabulary that is used in popular music, as a peculiar reflection by and on mankind. Before this she made ‘Show Room’, a pseudo-autobiographical video clip based on a song by Julio Iglesias. The sweet, sensuous words take on a preposterous and cynical undertone in the mouth of a postiche chansonnier...

ATTENTION PUBLIC

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
A 10 minute experimental narrative telling the story of Karen Annasdaughter, a young woman raised by a group of radicals in the woods of Nova Scotia. With this project Vey Duke and Battersby aim to clear a psycho-spiritual space for the viewer which was not cleared before. "We want this space to contain empathy (identification) and joy...

Viol, 2008, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

VIOL

Angel Vergara
Two folded hands are pushing on a womans face which itself is covered by long hair. This scene is as intimate as uncomfortable to watch or witness...

VIDÉO HEBDO 16

Claude Cattelain
An attempt to take away the wedding ring only by using the left hand....

A LA RENCONTRE DE MARCEL HANOUN

Bert Beyens
The French filmmaker Marcel Hanoun during the filming of "Loin-près de l'amour, loin-près de la mort" (1993). The subject of that film was "les amants de Sarajevo", the young couple of mixed etnic background shot by a sniper in that city. Their corpses were left dead for a week on a bridge....

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 66. ATTEMPT TO SING

Steve Reinke
Attempt to sing beautifully and obscure hits from the past but forget the words and be reduced to humming....

TIGER SKIN

Messieurs Delmotte
What that thing moving in the grass? Is it a man? Is it a tiger? Is it a duvet cover with a print of a tiger? Than why and how is it moving? Messieurs Delmotte fools around with our perception in yet another of his idiosyncratic short performances. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

EFEMERIA

Jan Vromman
Efemeria is a transcription to video of a project with slides, a poem and soundscape from 1958. This assemblage of ’words/images/sounds’ is extremely nude in its juxtaposition. The transcription to video of 2011, became an act of purity and brutality, radical in all its simplicity. The slides are from photographer Julien Coulommier, the words are written and read by poet Chris Yperman...

AN ORDER OF THINGS

Grace Schwindt
The performance took place at the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe in September 2014. One performer is hovering horizontally a meter above the ground and the other, a magician, is sitting on a chair in a corner, turned away from the audience. She gets up four times to carry out dance choreographies and then sits down again...