COLLECTION

LE CADEAU

Myriam Van Imschoot
Le Cadeau is a tribute to the 'youyou' (in French) or the 'zagharit' (in Arabic), a shrill trill that is used by women in North-Africa, the Middle East, Subsaharan Africa, amongst other countries, to express joy and other intense emotions. Nowadays the cry can be heard more and more in Western contexts, where it diversifies the soundscapes of private and public spaces...

FLOWERS SERIAL KILLER

Pascal Bernier
Flowers Serial Killer is an out and out SNUFF MOVIE.  However, the inherent horror in this genre is tinged with farce because of the nature of the victims, flowers and cacti, very much living organisms but with a "lesser importance" according to our mammiferous criteria. ‘SnuffMovie’ where the (real) victims are flowers. Eight real murders...

HƏƱMS

Laurent Van Lancker
The three-channel installation Həʊms superposes similar soundtracks on different footages. The sound fluctuates between recognizable familial noises and unintelligible conversations, scraps of composition and soundscape...

Inventur / Invocation. I have watched ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist

INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE WATCHED ...

Ralo Mayer
What is the difference between watching and looking? Ranging from familiar modern technologies like Skype webchats and popular films to the favourite subjects of poetry like sunsets and landscapes, Mayer invites reflection on the process of watching and how it may shape the object....

MUET COMME UNE CARPE

Boris Lehman
From pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed ‘in the Polish fashion’, also called in yiddish ‘Gefilte Fish’ is a traditional dish eaten by Ashkenazi Jews. It is cooked, sweetened and served as a cold dish at the start of the meal...

THE KINGDOM

Pieter Geenen
The Kingdom is a series of nine videos portraying today's North American urban landscape by looking at the large Belgian community living in the Canadian tobacco belt. During 20th century this region was subject to heavy European immigration, attracting many Flemish immigrants in particular who settled as tobacco farmers...

DOUBLE RAP SCRATCH

Messieurs Delmotte
This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO Vol. 2...

Madame going to a dogshow, Ria Pacquée, 1988. Courtesy the Artist

MADAME GOING TO A DOG SHOW

Ria Pacquée
During the second half of the eighthies Pacquée created her ’Madame’- works, in which she takes on the character of a lonely middle-aged lady. In this case the camera records Madame’s presence at a dog show. Madame walks around the hall where the event’s taking place. She looks at pictures of different breeds of dogs and takes some brochures...

BANG! JAMES LEE BYARS RE-ENACTMENT

Cel Crabeels
For the exhibition 'ORBIS TERRARUM—Ways of Worldmaking' (Museum Plantijn Moretus, Antwerp, 2000, curated by Moritz Küng), Cel Crabeels made this video re-enacting James Lee Byars’ well known piece 'Smithereens: the remnants of an exploded globe' that was on view in Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 1993, Brussels...

4 X 4 - EPISODES OF SINGAPORE ART : EPISODE 4: LIM TZAY CHUEN – THE INVISIBLE ARTWORK

Tzu Nyen Ho
In this episode, Lim Tzay Chuen’s 'Alter #11' (2002) is reflected on. 'Alter #11' involves a bullet, intended to be fired into a gallery. As in other works by Lim, a very small physical alteration is intended to be brought about through a disproportionately large amount of work, often involving endless negotiations, so that the end will never be achieved...