COLLECTIE

3 X KUNSTONDERWIJS

Jef Cornelis
At Jef Cornelis’s instigation, three artists (Panamarenko, Guillaume Bijl and Willy van Sompel), three art critics (Lieven de Cauter, Adriaan van Raemdonck and Bart Verschaffel), three gallery owners (Joost Declercq, Benoit Angelet and Annie De Decker) and three museum directors (Jan Debbaut, Jan Hoet and Wilfried Huet) were each of them invited to pass half a day in the workshops of three h...

RHYME 'EM TO DEATH

Elizabeth LeCompte - The Wooster Group
‘Rhyme ‘Em to Death’ reconstructs the trial from Victor Hugo’s ‘Hunchback of The Notre Dame’ from a new perspective, that of a minor character – the goat. The trial of the goat, a postscript in the Hugo novel, has been extended and enlivened with the actual transcripts of 15th-century trials in which animals were persecuted as witches...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 93. MANIFESTATIONS/JOUISSANCE

Steve Reinke
After a sharp blow to the head, one sometimes gains extraordinary powers. I’ve lately been struck by the gift of superior critical abilities in analyzing Hollywood films....

NATIONAL LIBERATION FOOTBALL

Amina Menia
On November 18, 2009, the Algerian football team won a match against Egypt by a goal to nil, thus ensuring a place in the 2010 World Cup. Public jubilation was all the greater, given that both countries were experiencing political tensions...

ENCLOSURE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte climbs onto a barbed wire fence, tries to keep his balance, but ends up in a pasture. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

White Shadows, 2009, Didier Volckaert © the artist

WHITE SHADOWS

Didier Volckaert
The first scientific expedition in the history of human exploration was launched in 1897. Destination: the recently discovered continent of Antarctica, which for more than 17 centuries had been nothing but an idea, a presumption, a myth. The Belgica expedition successfully reached Antarctica… and froze fast there...

THE DEATH OF JAMES LEE BYARS

Peter Brosens
Based upon two performances / installations of James Lee Byars: ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’ and ‘The White Mass’. In ‘The Death of James Lee Byars’, the artist acts out his own death on 1 July 1994. Wearing a mask and dressed in gold, Byars lies in the ‘golden room’ of the Marie-Puck Broodthaers Art Gallery in Brussels...

TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 2: PREPARING FOR THE SINGULARITY

Frank Theys
Technocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...

VALERIO ADAMI, HOTEL CHELSEA BATHROOM

Jef Cornelis
Cornelis created this documentary about the Italian painter Valerio Adam for television, for the series 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' ('Public Heritage')...

EEN EEUW ARCHITECTUUR IN BELGIË 1875-1975

Jef Cornelis
A historical outline of 100 years of architecture in Belgium, with a focus on some of the major moments in the history of building. They are situated within their social context, and as a result this document is as much about ‘living in’ as it is about ‘building’...