COLLECTIE

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 96. CAMOUFLAGE

Steve Reinke
The beauty of the world may be all around us, but sometimes it can be hard to spot....

BREATHING OUT-I-M-E

Charley Case
A blurry little shape in ‘(Breathing Out-i-m-e)’ keeps spinning, almost making it invisible against the white background. The sound accompanying it is like panting and it’s as if the vibrating shape reacts to it....

HERE IS EVERYTHING

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
Here Is Everything presents itself as a message from The Future, as narrated by a cat and a rabbit, spirit guides who explain that they’ve decided to speak to us via a contemporary art video because they understand this to be our highest form of communication. Their cheeky introduction, however, belies the complex set of ideas that fill the remainder of the film...

SHEIK ATTACK

Eddo Stern
In this video Eddo Stern combines Israeli pop songs from the late sixties -optimistic, nation-building songs- with violent, militaristic scenes from computer/video games, resulting in a vertiginous, thought-provoking spectacle...

Shooting into the Sun, Ria Pacquée, 2010. Courtesy the Artist

SHOOTING INTO THE SUN

Ria Pacquée
A video piece made of transferred slide show pictures that Ria Pacquée took over the course of years, a photographic series that is still on-going. In different parts of the world – Belgium, Europe, Marocco, India and different parts in Asia – the artist took frontal pictures of the sun...

THEME SONG

Vito Acconci
In ‘Theme Song’ Acconci most effectively plays-on the dynamic field of tension between ‘I’ and ‘you’, between the artist and the viewer. The artist lies on the ground in the living room, in front of the sofa. His face is filmed in close-up...

WELCOME TO DAVID WOJNAROWICZ WEEK

Steve Reinke
Steve Reinke celebrates a week-long holiday inspired by the artist David Wojnarowicz, day by day. The holiday's motto: MORE RAGE, LESS DISGUST....

PAUL VAN BOSSTRAETEN, CULTIVATEUR D’ORCHIDÉES

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

CONTAINER 01: OVER SENTIMENTALITEIT

Jef Cornelis
On the occassion of ‘het ontroerparcours’ (course of emotions), a series of articles in which a number of Flemish people were questioned about their subjective definition and experience of ‘emotion’, the Container-panel decides to investigate the term...

A PECULIAR FAMILY ALBUM

Amina Menia
“From 1953 to 1957, the Deputy-Mayor of Algiers Jacques Chevallier appointed Fernand Pouillon to undertake building projects: social housing for the benefit of poor Algerians. With this ambitious programme, Jacques Chevallier was planning to reduce the blatant inequalities between Europeans and the indigenous population...