COLLECTIE

A SWARM OF TWO

Aernout Mik
The terror threat has resulted in evermore demands for control, and still less room for the unexpected...

55 barbes bleues, 1999, Thierry De Mey © the artist

BARBE BLEUE

Thierry De Mey
Fifty-five men, of all ages, most of them recruited via ads on the radio, succeed one another before the camera, with quick-fire editing; each speaks a sentence, or just a word... telling the story of Bluebeard, faithfully following Perrault’s text...

FULL MOON RISING

Michel Lorand
FULL MOON RISING is an almost dichromatic film. The colour green is superimposed with footage filmed with a night vision camera. The camera remains fixed during the entire film, while the moon travels in real time across the screen, from the bottom left corner to the top right one. This ascending journey determines the length of the film...

THE BEERS

Messieurs Delmotte
Beer cans are displayed on the stairs of a building. Delmotte goes on crushing them one by one with his feet. This work is part of the series 'Rejected videos'...

COMBUSTIONS

Claude Cattelain
In his work Claude Cattelain tries to grasp the essence in the volatile. His short and personal flashes of astonishment and fragility offer a striking image of a passage from one place to another or a shift in frames of mind...

War Games, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

WAR GAMES

Peter Finnemore
Nowadays, when smart bombs and drones avoid full contact between opposed armies and soldiers guide assaults thanks to digital interfaces, war turns to be almost a game. Through both his satirical and pacifist attitudes, Finnemore points this out with a meaningless act....

SPAZIERGAENGER MIT HUND - SONSBEEK 86

Jef Cornelis
A report on the art manifestation of Sonsbeek 86, falling back on the sense of security of the park. These natural surroundings had an atmosphere not unlike that of a museum. Some of the works had been positioned ’out in the open’ in the park. Most of the objects, however, could be considered in specifically designed glass pavilions...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 22. IN THE REALM OF PERPETUAL EMBARRASSMENT

Steve Reinke
I am a machine which produces sentences. A fish is a machine that produces other fishes, usually of the same species....

VAN BASSENGWERKER TOT HAVENARBEIDER (ANTWERPEN)

Jef Cornelis
In 1965 more than 13,000 labourers set to work every day in the port of Antwerp and even then, every day there was a shortage of workers. “The Antwerp docker is the quickest in the world,” we hear in this creative documentary, “though they never had any specific training for their job—except for the markers...

DUNYALAND - A THEORY OF BOREDOM

Julie Gaston
The peculiar visitors of the utopian theme park Dunyaland confront us with metaphoric monologues reflecting the sensation of an inner void. Meanwhile, a contemporary Alice stands at the rim of the rabbit hole, wondering what she may find if she jumps in. Dunyaland looks at boredom from different angle and reminds us that true innovation is often sparked when there is nothing else to do....