COLLECTIE
Zoek collectie
ANTENNA SIESTA
Charley Case“Duality becomes unity, symbolised by a spherical shape” (Charley Case). Antenna Siesta shows 9 sphere-inhabitants. One of them is Diogenes in his barrel. Is his foolishness/wisdom linked to the spherical shape of his habitat?...
VIDÉO HEBDO 46
Claude CattelainWithout going down Cattelain stacks one after another piece under his chair....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 07. SPECULATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY
Steve ReinkeIt wasn’t very long ago that the imagination could make its way into the world as an autonomous agent of seemingly repressed desires. I want to return to that time....
DEAD SEA DRAWINGS (PART 01)
Edith DekyndtEdith Dekyndt’s project Lot’s Wife (2009), of which the film Dead Sea Drawings is a part, refers to the fate of Lot’s wife, Edith, as described in the book of Genesis. Ordered by an angel not to look back as they flee the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Edith fails to comply and takes one last look behind her, turning immediately into a pillar of salt...
BREAKDOWN
Karen VanderborghtIn ’Breakdown’ digital editing techniques such as morphing are used to bend, crush and transfigure two different perspectives of a flat building into each other in a background that does the same in the opposite direction...
VIDÉO HEBDO 14
Claude CattelainGlasses fall down and break one after another on the concrete floor....
TANIA, MODÈLE POUR PHOTOS DE CHARME
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...
XY 02
Edith DekyndtA circle of silk thread shakes hands, passes from one to another, winds, wandering, as if he were alive. The image is presented in video-projection, leaving the terrain of the hands and the curves of the wire appear on the wall like a mural....
PATERSHOL, GENT
Jef CornelisAfter a general view of the city Ghent, its horizon and roofs, we are confronted with views of streets and houses in one particular district that is threatened with demolition. A poster announces protest actions against the demolition of the Patershol district....
CONTAINER 09: OVER ROES
Jef CornelisA fragment from Aldoux Huxley‘s ’The Doors of Perception’ is the starting-point for a reflection on intoxication. Intoxication might be perceived as one of the universal longings of mankind. The Romantic tradition of Baudelaire talks of “artificial paradises”, but outside the Western society intoxication has a much more ambivalent function than escapism alone...
