COLLECTIE

VOICE-OVER

Roy Villevoye
Set in the Asmat region in the Indonesian part of New Guinea, Voice-Over overlays the construction of a traditional wooden sculpture with a phone call about a sales deal gone wrong. The death of Roy Villevoye’s Papuan friend Omoma is the reason for the creation of the sculpture, a ritual that also functions as a memorial ceremony...

CADAVRE EXQUIS

Vincent Dunoyer
“Exquisite corpse: a game in which a phrase is composed by writing a word on a piece of paper that is then folded before being passed to the next player.” (Dictionnaire Le Robert)The principle of the choreographic writing that underlies Cadavre Exquis is the same that underlies the game invented by the surrealists...

SCISSORS

Messieurs Delmotte
Armed with two pairs of scissors, Messieurs Delmotte works on a tree’s new hair style....

atlantis, 2008, Pieter Geenen © the artist. Courtesy of Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp

ATLANTIS

Pieter Geenen
In 2009 the construction of the Three Gorges Dam on the Chinese Yangtze River was completed. As a result of this construction, 632 sq km of land a distance of 660 km upstream flooded up to a level of 175 m. Numerous social and environmental issues related to its construction made this dam one of the world’s most controversial projects in recent history...

PRUNE TOURNE

Michel François
A longhaired woman, whirling round, filmed from above. Her waving hair causes a pattern, taking on a new shape with every turn. This image, both photographic and sculptural, provides a kind of commentary on François’ work....

THE GARDEN

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte, hidden under a table (laid out for dinner), stands up and throws about the table. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

PUBLICITÉ

Hänzel & Gretzel
Publicité is a twenty seconds clip where Hänzel & Gretzel combines television sound and footages which are edited in short loops and saturated colours....

Fumée, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago. © the artist(s)

FUMÉE

Angel Vergara
Vergara filmed smoke. However, he did not indicate where the smoke was coming from. During filming, only the smoke itself was caught on screen, against the background of a blue sky. The motif of smoke can be interpreted as a reference to the works of René Magritte and Marcel Broodthaers...

untitled part 6: upon the resonance of histories, Jayce Salloum, 2009-2010 © the artist & producer

UNTITLED PART 6: UPON THE RESONANCE OF HISTORIES

Jayce Salloum
Parihaka (on the north island of Aotearoa/New Zealand) is seen by many nationally and internationally as a symbol of non-violent resistance, and a Maori struggle for contemporary and historical justice ...

GRENZSTEINE

Ulrike Knorr
Along the former border between East and West Germany, on the Eastern side there was an area of about 5km of width, where access was made difficult for the larger part of the population. A region with woods, fields, small villages… A place with a strong symbolic meaning, impressed upon people’s minds. This film sets up an imaginary stroll across those borderline landscapes...