COLLECTIE
Zoek collectie
WAGNER & VIDEO
Sophie CoppéSophie Coppé followed Koen en Frank Theys in the production process of their ground-breaking video 'De Walküre' (1989, second part of the diptych 'Song of My Soil' ('Lied van mijn land'). Apart from following their intense rehearsal process, and showing images out of the original piece, the brothers talk openly about the project with the dramaturge Reinder Pols...
A LA MER
Emilio López-MencheroIn a calm and romantic landscape, Emilio López-Menchero stands on his portable and human scaled monument that consisted of two concrete shoe leathers. The artist faces the North Sea and records the passing of time....
KOMM
Emilio López-MencheroSeated naked on a chair, Emilio López-Menchero checks the frame through his reversed screen display of the camera and zooms in till the image becomes completely blurred. From his static position, the artist tests the technical possibilities and the focus’ capacity of the camera....
THE STREETTAPES
Els DietvorstThese tapes are an impression of the 'live'-rehearsals for The return of the swallows in July 2002 at the Anneessens square in Brussels. These 'live'-rehearsals were an important turning point in the project. All the actors saw each other for the first time. They were assigned to stay in character whatever happened and to challenge each other by improvising...
Shelly Silver, exceptional happenings, 2008 © the artist
EXCEPTIONAL HAPPENINGS
Shelly SilverLike the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped here...
COUP DE FOUDRE
Hänzel & GretzelIn Coup de Foudre, Hänzel & Gretzel samples and loops movies' dialogues and the famous All Along The Watchtower in the Jimi Hendrix version. This soundscape serves as a background for a short video where we assist to the encounter between a man and a woman in a public toilette....
THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 77. AMOEBA
Steve ReinkeThis amoeba describes a libido which is not solely my libido, but a force, an external force. For the amoeba, movement is not movement, but simply a way of being because it does not move though space but simply is. The concept of space is obliterated by the amoeba’s virtual omnipotence. Also, it is sexless and through its sexlessness, immortal. It survives every division...
La scene à lieu derriere le stade d'action, 2006, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist
LA SCÈNE À LIEU DERRIÈRE LE STADE D'ACTION
Angel VergaraThe text to which the title is referring is a text by the French writer and painter Novarina, which the poet recites here. At the beginning and end of the movie, ’O Superman’ by Laurie Anderson is heard...
IJSBREKER 05: HET CIRCUS HUILT
Eric Blanckaert - Mark De Geest - Freddy Coppens - Jackie ClaeysThe circus, a world where a laugh and a tear might well run into one another more easily than anywhere else. After the Second World War, there were 14 circuses left in Belgium, a number which turned out to be halved after a mere decade...
DIMBU
Harald Thys - Jos De GruyterStarting off from the proposition: “If it’s possible to do 100 km in one hour, it must be possible to do 100.000 km in 1.000 hours”, a number of experiments are developed with the realisation of this axiom as a final purpose. Three experts report on the different tests with slides, overhead projections and video....
