COLLECTIE

DER FLEXIBLE UNTERNEHMER

Alexander Kluge
As indicated in the subtitle Tiehrmehlfabrikant Dr. Fred Eicke weiss Auswege, this work centres on the animal food producer Fred Eicke (a part played by Peter Berling). The title refers to The Corrosion of Character (translated into German as Der Flexible Mensch), a book from 1998 by the American sociologist Richard Sennett...

Philippe Braem, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PHILIPPE BRAEM

Angel Vergara
At the Centre for Fine Arts, where Phillippe Braem works and where an exhibition of the works of Nico Dockx and Christophe Terlinden is being held, Braem explains his opinion about the freedom of the artist. He particularly wonders how an artist is able to maintain his freedom when he becomes enmeshed in systems endangering that freedom...

CLICHÉS SÉRIE 'FOND GRIS' (II) ENSEMBLE 'BXL ABSTRAIT 03: ROSE, BLANC.SOLEIL' VERSION INTÉGRALE

Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Action cocktail, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

ACTION COCKTAIL

Angel Vergara
Images from the mass media and Vergara’s own exterior shots are combined with video-recordings of a Brussels performance in which Angel Vergara asked everyone walking past to sign his CV in Marie-Puck Broodthaers’s Gallery des Beaux-Arts (where a Christian Boltanski exhibition was being held) and the gallery of Xavier Hufkens (a Julião Sarmento exhibition)...

PEINTURE À L'HUILE N°3

Thomas Bernardet
The video camera records the motor of a running car filmed in close-up for 45mn....

RESONATING SURFACES

Manon de Boer
First, there’s only darkness and music combined with vague, indefinable sounds, like footsteps or stumbling. Then, slowly, the image whitens, giving way bit by bit to some 16 mm film spots and scratches. Now and then, images appear for a split second. The music swells, distorted, cut through with noise...

11 INTONARUMORI

Didier Volckaert
"One photograph, filmed, manipulated and edited in the camera. The Futuristic painter and composer Luigi Russolo can be regarded as the first Industrial-noise artist. The photograph used to make this entire film is one of the few existing traces of his work. Also the sound is original and the only recording known of the music. We see and hear Russolo and his 11 noise machines or Intonarumori...

ELECTION DEFEAT

Steve Reinke
Takes us back to our awkward high school years in Toledo, Ohio, 1968....

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE I

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Some twenty video artists from the French school (among others Robert Cahen, Didier Bay, J.C. Bouvet, Yves le Marrec) are briefly portrayed in turns; they produce slogan-like comments on the medium of video art....

IJSBREKER 20: COMPUTERKUNST

Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens - Jackie Claeys - Jef Cornelis
An episode of ’Ijsbreker’ on the work of artists who involve electronic machines in their graphic or musical work. In the first location, the Groningen museum, the artist Struycken talks about his work. In Ghent Peter Beyls and Rudi Blondia do the exact same thing...