COLLECTIE

Zoek collectie




SUDEUROPA

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Sudeuropa examines the ways in which European and Italian immigration policies materialise on location by reconfiguring the space, time and the daily life of the Italian island Lampedusa...

AMIR

Charley Case
A Jew recites chanted texts in front of the camera while daubs of black ink fall in front of his face....
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LA PASSERELLE

Jean-Claude Riga
This report for Canal Emploi is an illustration of Pierre Bourdieu’s theories on social capital and the influence of family background and social class in academic success. Bourdieu maintained that a working class child with the same intellectual capacities than a child out of a bourgeois milieu had less chances of succeeding in school...

DETERMINATION (1)

Hans Op de Beeck
A nine-year-old boy is looking at the spectator through the rear window of a car. The car is travelling on a stretch of motorway; the audience is positioned as though they are riding directly behind. The boy remains in position, staring at the viewer throughout the duration of the work. (Source: www.hansopdebeeck.com)...

OFFICE BAROQUE

Cherica Convents
This video documents the thinking behind and making of Office Baroque, an on-site work the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) created in 1977 in an empty house in the centre of Antwerp. For months, Cherica Convents and Roger Steylaerts followed the artist and others involved in the project, till its final completion...
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FLYING PIGEON

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte hangs out of a window, holding a pigeon in his hand. He moves his arm around, while the pigeon is trying to flee. It looks as if Delmotte is trying to make the pigeon fly without actually releasing it. In the end the pigeon is cut loose. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

MESSAGE DE L'OGRE

Jacques Lennep
Lennep waves flags with black and white stripes — a reference to Daniel Buren? — in various places, next to huge statues....

ONE IN TWO

Charley Case
Hitler and Jesus? Through a peep-hole that gradually increases in size we see a man with a Hitler-like moustache screaming and moving frantically. Distorted vocal noises sound in the background. ‘Hitler’ gets unshaven – everything is played backwards – revealing a Christ-like figure with a beard...
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BIËNNALE VAN PARIJS 1985

Jef Cornelis
A programme on the Paris Biennale in 1985, mainly focused on figurative art - “art on the wall”. During the mounting of the exhibitions in the ‘Grande Halle’, the camera zooms in on curators and organizers (Georges Boudaille, Kasper König, Alanna Heis, …), as well as artists like Keith Haring, David Hockney and Daniel Buren...
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MARILYN MONROE

Daniel Weinberger - Raoul Van den Boom
A man, wearing big glasses and a costume, is standing still in front of the camera. On the background three spotlights are shining. The soundtrack consists of a person breathing heavily. Suddenly the man starts taking off his clothes and replacing them by a glittering tank top. He puts leaves and feathers in his ears and contact lenses in his eyes. Then the man starts putting on make up...