COLLECTIE
Zoek collectie
ACHTEROVER/BACKWARDS
Anne-Mie Van KerckhovenA woman leaning backwards changes colour slowly, which gives the image an aspect of certain periods of time in art history. Abstract forms come and go like thoughts. The motionless figure relates to the abstract, like colours relate to the giving of a meaning of the image...
VEGETATIVE STATES: AN ATTEMPT TO INSTIL AND MEASURE ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN HOUSEHOLD PLANTS
Steve Reinke - John MarriottSeductive and eerie, ’Vegetative States’ observes an experiment in which a lush, potted Peace Lily is wired to a polygraph (lie detector) device and is then shown hypnotic art videos, while a technician monitors its responses. This attempt to influence and measure perception quickly morphs into a genre blurring deconstruction of point of view...
LIBERATION RADIO
Esther JohnsonThis is Liberation Radio. In 1968, a group of American military deserters went to the North Vietnamese mission in Stockholm with one object in mind – to join the army they had been drafted to fight. Instead, they were recruited for the propaganda war – and use magnetic tape, pop music and political rhetoric to persuade other American servicemen to desert...
FLASHFORWARD
Eran Schaerf - Eva MeyerThe work of Meyer and Schaerf explores the transitional area between the meaningless and the meaningful, especially the process during which unrelated scraps of meaning move between various possibilities, ultimately converging into a cluster of emotions and associations. At the same time traditional sign systems of language, image and sound are undermined and new relations are proposed...
LA VIE POLITIQUE DES BELGES
Jan BucquoyThe fifth full feature project of Jan Bucquoy fits in with an encompassing concept of ‘looking at Belgium in a specific way’. In this documentary he follows the 1999 election campaign of two mini parties. On the one hand there is Vivant, the party of Roland Duchâtelet, with a central topic of the right to a basic income for all...
SOLOS FOR OTHERS
Vincent DunoyerSolos for Others is a piece for two dancers and a pianist interpreting Beethoven’s thirty-three Diabelli Variations. A film by Michael Snow the choreographer happened to watch by chance freely inspires the work. The film consists of a sequence of seemingly unrelated photographs; on the soundtrack a hammer blow accompanies each cut...
LE JEU DE LA GRENOUILLE
Jacques LennepIn Le jeu de la grenouille the artist argues that he is not Claude Monet. He goes to visit Monet’s garden and find out that frogs dominate the garden. The artist can’t bear the sound they make and dressed up as a frog he decides to burn one of Monet’s “works”....
LOOKING DOWN
Bernard GigounonA ship, filmed from above, is slowly moving through the image: the bow, the deck, and the metal cover plates. As soon as the camera arrives at the load, however, consisting of sand and stones, something weird happens: the load turns into a Martian landscape, it seems as if the camera is transforming into a satellite, exploring some barren planet...
