COLLECTIE

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - LEÇON DE GOLF

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
Two golfers teach the viewer how to make a perfect swing. The female voice-over tells us that it’s a fragment of a video that one can buy to learn how to play golf. The images are mixed with random extracts of TV images....

GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA

Jan Vromman
In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...

THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

Steve Reinke
Spoken in the voice of American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, with a soundtrack of a picked-appart Black Sabbath song, ‘Fairies Wear Boots’. Dahmer has a monologue for each of his seventeen victims. The artist’s autobiography as a serial killer....

BESTE STEVE

Herman Asselberghs
In Beste Steve ('Dear Steve'), a man is smoothly dismantling a brand new MacBook Pro. Meanwhile, in a voice-over, a letter is read, addressed to Steve Jobs and signed by the artist. Beste Steve reveals the irreducible materiality of a tool that symbolises so-called immaterial labour...

J'AI LA TÊTE QUI TOURNE

Jacques Louis Nyst - Danièle Nyst
The heads of a video recorder are turning; the earth is turning. The night succeeds the day. Thought and images pass by; the artist is feeling dizzy. The unfolding story follows the course of a conversation between him, a counter of stones, and the female character Theresa. Their intention is to move the world and the night into a little grey corner...

AND TO

Peter Downsbrough
We don't know where we are. We're in a car, looking at other cars, roads, structures, tunnels – wasteland. Position? The Global Positioning System informs us, with its horde of satellites, orbiting Earth. Guiding us with its synthesised voice, transporting us, 'translating' us. Telling us what to do...

A SONG OF LONGING

Wendy Morris
A story of a search and a song. It is three hundred years since the artist’s family fled France when she returns to the villages in which they once lived. She walks a circle around these three small villages looking for a memory of their absence. She pays attention to the less obvious. She looks for clues in the weeds that grow on the verges. She listens for sounds that are missing....

WALKER, LA VALSIÈRE

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
Walker 3 is a survey of the Domaine de Valsière, in the suburbs of Montpellier. This unbuilt "natural" space, encircled by dwellings, was ravaged by a fire during the 2003 heat wave. In this lunar space that evokes a deserted battlefield and a western movie, the two artists scrutinize the terrain, searching for traces of a former state, evidence of a past life...

FRITERIE (SÉRIE): MADE IN B. – B. BY NIGHT – GOING TO B. – B TO ME

Emilio López-Menchero
A series of video sequences on Emilio López-Menchero’s favourite chips shops. The work was presented in the frame of the exhibition FOODART-PLACES IN BETWEEN (2000) when the city of Bergen, Norway, was European Capital of Culture...

A BROKEN RULE

Vincent Meessen
‘A Broken Rule’ is based on a performance realized by Meessen with collaborators in Burkina Faso. The video portrays African men taking turns carrying luminous text plates – often the only source of light in the image – through a nocturnal city...