COLLECTIE

JOHNNY

Emilio López-Menchero
Johnny is an independent video which is also part of the longer work Pare-brise série (1999). In this early video production, Emilio López-Menchero is concerned about the logic of statements of fact, time and the notion of waiting. Johnny is a sequence recorded with a steadycam through the windowpane of a stationary car...

CONTINUOUS SOUND FORMS

Charlemagne Palestine
"This CD features two very special moments of the acoustic production of Charlemagne Palestine. A very peculiar strumming for 2 harpsichords and the first piano composition marking the passage from the electronic music period to strumming technique. Elisabeth Freeman and Charlemagne Palestine met in 1971 at Cal Arts near L.A...

WHYMPER: DE SCHETSENDE BERGBEKLIMMER

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
1865: A London publisher commissions Whymper to make some sketches of a still virginal town in Switzerland: Matterhorn. Whymper is tempted by the challenging beauty of the mountain and he decides to conquer it in the company of some experienced climbers and with his sketchbook under his arm. Everything goes as planned, but when he descends the rope breaks and 4 of the company of 7 fall down...

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...

IJSBREKER 11: WONEN+WONEN=2

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
A house is an environment. A home is an extension of who you are. How can we live in a house, be at home in a home? These issues are tackled in a live transmission by Bob van Reeth, architect and teacher, and Marcel Raymaekers, tradesman in historical style objects. A work by both is presented, architectural pieces as places with a memory, an environment with a mind, a space in time...

SHOOTING OF FIRE

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video-performance starring a plastic soccer ball on a football field. Monsieur Delmotte enters the field, pours fuel on the ball and sets it on fire. Then, he kicks the ball toward the goal in the back of the field. The fire on the ball extinguished but the fire keeps on burning on the original spot of the ball. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

THE BLACK SEA FILES

Ursula Biemann
The Black Sea Files is a piece of territorial research on the geography of the world’s oldest oil extraction zone – the Caspian. A giant new subterranean pipeline traversing the Caucasus will soon pump Caspian Crude to the West. The line connecting the resource fringe with the terminus of the global high-tech oil circulation system runs through the video like a central thread...

POKMÁN

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
Women chase their menfolk and beat them with burning sticks in an Asmat village. The young men suffer the beatings gladly and even seek out this treatment. Are we witnessing a punishment or is this a marriage market? Pokmán was filmed in the Asmat village of Pupis in May 2000....

THE JOYCEAN SOCIETY

Dora García
A group of people have been reading a book together for thirty years. They have been reading it again and again, with each journey from the first to the last page taking eleven years. Once they reach the last word, a very enigmatic "the," they begin again with the first word, "riverrun." The text appears inexhaustible, its interpretation endless, the inconclusive nature of the reading exciting...

COGELS OSYLEI, BERCHEM

Jef Cornelis
Cogels Osylei is an unique district, built around 1900 on the outskirts of Antwerp. With its exuberant mixture of neo-styles and Jugendstil, it was often discarded as the absolute limit of bad taste, to the point that plans were made in the 1970s to tear down the area altogether...