COLLECTIE

CONTAINER 06: DE OORSPRONG VAN HET WARENHUIS

Jef Cornelis
Once upon a time, the ‘grands magasins de nouveautés’ were focal points of modern life. Their development, as described in Emile Zola’s Au bonheur des dames ("A Woman’s Paradise"), introduced the transition from a production’s to a consumer’s society...

ANUS SONG

Messieurs Delmotte
An anus whistles away a tune......

UN ET UN À PRÉSENT ÇA FAIT DEUX AVANT ÇA NE FAISAIT QU’UN

Marie-France Martin - Patricia Martin
The video is the result of a performance that took place during the exhibition ‘DONNER CHAUD’ in Antwerp. Its title is a phrase from the novel ‘Adam and Eve’ by the Swiss author C.F. Ramuz. The video presents a scene in which four women – the artists included- pull stockings on and off one another, in an endless attempt to make a pair...

CONDUCTOR

Anouk De Clercq
A lightning conductor appears as a musical conductor for the cloud cover. At the core of an increasingly threatening blaze of fire and a whistling wind, a minuscule light has final call, until the violence of heaven discharges abruptly and the lightning conductor throws it all off-screen...

BIENVENUE

Jen Debauche
Jen Debauche films the experience of the most intriguing rite of passage: the birth of a human being. In an eerie space, reminiscent of a dodgy dystopian factory, we catch glimpses of a male body in a vacuum bag, suspended from the ceiling...

Extensions, Hans Op de Beeck, 2009. Courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano – Beijing – Le Moulin; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York; Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam – Amsterdam

EXTENSIONS

Hans Op de Beeck
In terms of content, the animated film ‘Extensions’ deals with cultural and subcultural rituals, science and technology as extensions of the human body, and as the physical manifestation of an unfailing belief in progress, which is both redemptive and ethically problematic. The artist defines the extension of the body in very broad terms...

OUR CIRCUMSCRIBED DAYS

Hans Van den Broeck
In 1999 Hans Van Den Broeck made this rhythmical portrait of Moscow. He did not focus on the real Moscow, but rather on the myth of the metropolitan city, with its inhabitants as actors. He wanted to capture the Russian spirit, in all its absurdity. Conflict situations, incongruities, funny or absurd situations, however minimal, drew his attention...

REEL TO REEL

Teresa Cos
Accompanied by a solemn chant - which slowly becomes the feedback sound of a distorted guitar in loop - the miniature boats of the Mini-Europe theme park in Brussels appear one after the other, seamlessly. The models fade into each other intersecting reflections of great European landscapes, leaving the way to an eerie underwater world...

IJSBREKER 12: DE KUNST VAN HET TAFELEN

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
A programme about dining, cooking and eating. An outlook on the kitchens and the tables of a cookery club and a restaurant, under the watching eye of lawyer and trendsetter John Bultinck...

9 PETITS MOMENTS

Ria Pacquée
In the work of Ria Pacquée the relative and the existential always go hand in hand. In ’Neuf Petits Moments’, Pacquée layers brief shots and images, small moments, to construct a visual poem. Exploring space and colour, lines and forms, light and shade, she assembles a catalogue of images both absurd and symbolic...