COLLECTIE

SPIDER

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to catch the essence of the volatile. His video miniatures are flashes of amazement and fragility, staged at times, or noticed in passing. Impulsive, not without a sense of humour, Cattelain records an actual spatial escapism or emotional turning points...

PERIPHERAL LIGHT AIR AND SUN

Krassimir Terziev - Daniel Kötter
In most European cities nowadays many more people live in the peripheries than in the city cores. And yet the peripheral spaces receive much less public, academic or political attention than those iconographic spaces in the center that place the image of a city on the map of competitive global tourism and city marketing...

SLAVE UNIT

Cel Crabeels
‘Slave unit’ is a notion which indicates the status of network equipment. In photography it denotes the power of flash installations; a distinction is always made between dominant and subjected. In the video by Cel Crabeels the idea is applied to a setting with two dancers, a director, the camera, video equipment, the stage and the audience...

SPACES THESIS PART 1 (WINTER 1)

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

LE BUFFET AUX TROIS COULEURS

Jacques Lennep
One after the other, Lennep eats a plate of sausages, a plate of goat’s cheese and a piece of cake. Each time he wears a mask suitable for the “meal”....

LADY LIQUE

Marc Meert
A recording of the installation ‘Vertus Publiques, Vices Privés’ by Diana Bobolou, as part of an exhibition in the Fine Arts Academy in St.Josse-ten-Noode. What might seem at first sight like the working environment and daily ritual of a prostitute is in fact merely an artificial installation in an exhibition environment....

TENANT

Grace Schwindt
In Tenant, the family home becomes the stage to re-enact a scripted dialogue that takes as a starting point a story about Mrs. Schumacher who was the lodger of the artist's grandfather in Berlin during the Second World War. She was a communist and helped Vladimir Lenin travel from Switzerland to Russia in 1917 after the February Revolution broke out...

THEO VAN DOESBURG [NELLY VAN DOESBURG]

Jef Cornelis
Annie Declerck presents the Theo van Doesburg exhibition organized by Jan Leering 1969 at the van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. A report is given on van Doesburg’s drawings, paintings, poems, thoughts, relations with Mondrian, Bauhaus and Futurism, the balance between his architectural and pictural structures, his personal relationships with other artists and his philosophy and death...

SUDDEN DEATH

Wim Catrysse
The video installations by Wim Catrysse appeal physically and directly to the spectator’s world of experience. Through simple technical means he realises highly suggestive images, which play with the existential context of the individual. His attention is principally aimed at corporeal expression, at the language of the body...

PATRIA (VIVE LE ROI! VIVE LA RÉPUBLIQUE!)

Koen Theys
Video installation for 1 projector and 1 flat screenmonitor. In his book ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama defends the idea that the end of history is reached. All the big ideologies of the 20th century have come to an end, he says, and they have made place for a post-ideological, neo-liberal pragmatism...