COLLECTION

VU’CUMPRA? - BIENNALE DE VENISE 99

Emilio López-Menchero
Vu’cumpra? - Biennale de Venise 99 is a report of a performance realized in Venice in 1999. In the frame of the project En attendant l’année dernière (Waiting for last year), curated by Laurent Jacob, Lino Polegato from Flux-News organized a parallel project called No Milk Today on the notion of churn...

MARIA GAAT NAAR SCHOOL

Edurne Rubio - Maria Jerez
The children of V-tex school in Kortrijk, teach Dutch to Maria Jerez. During three weeks the roles of education change: 33 children teach and one adult learns. During this change of roles, the matter is not the transfer of symmetrical power, but the establishment of a fragile situation for all parties, a space where nobody knows....

IN BLOOD WE TRUST

Pablo Garcia Rubio - Alain De Clerck - Emmanuel Dundic
The video ‘In blood we trust’ records a project that consists of a performance, a sound installation and a video presentation, presented during the Venice Biennial. The performance took place during the opening of the exhibition and consisted of a small airplane that could be controlled from a distance, throwing out dollars over the heads of the audience...

MOSAÏC HEREDITY

Emilio López-Menchero
In Mosaïc Heredity, Emilio López-Menchero talks into the fix camera and tells about himself, his situation and origins as if he is standing in front of an unemployment office agent or a police interrogation. Between fiction and reality, the short video is characterized by the insertion of black frames and the use of the mosaic mode of the camera...

SHOW

Luc Deleu
’Show’ is an experimental documentary about an exhibition of young painters and an audio-visual show for the school ’Koninklijk Atheneum’. The video begins with recording, at double speed, of a meeting between Deleu and the other artists at the TOP Office. The artists drive round the school, still shooting images. On the playground an installation is being erected...

COGELS OSYLEI

Jef Cornelis
This is a report on the Cogels-Osylei and the Zurenborg district of Berchem and an earnest plead for their conservation. We get a view on the new concrete buildings at the end of the Lei and views on the streets in the district and archive photographs. At the time there was a demonstration in support of the area, protesting against the local council...

Comment liberer les artistes libres?, 2003, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

COMMENT LIBÉRER LES ARTISTES LIBRES?

Angel Vergara
In June 2003, Angel Vergara dressed up as a soldier to give a lecture as part of a multidisciplinary installation set up in the Kunsthalle in Freiburg (CH) about the relationship between art, war and commerce, and about the strategy of a community – that of the oeuvres d’art – looking for new extraterrestrial worlds. Soldiers were also present in the audience....

HÉLICO

Claude Cattelain
Cattelain quickly turns an object hanging on two strings....

MAX BILL

Jef Cornelis
Max Bill, an artist who worked with plastics and member of the Swiss ’Zurich Concrete’ group, spent many years investigating mathematical abstractions – and sculpting, in his way, another life. "Is it necessary to say that a mathematical approach to art has nothing to do with any ingenious system of calculation based on ready-made formulas?" he wrote in 1949...

VIETNAM

Wolf Vostell
Vostell returns on the theme of war in 'Vietnam'. This film consists of manipulated images from a television report on the war in Vietnam. The images were filmed directly from the television screen with a Super 8 camera: seven minutes of blurred images of a soldier amidst a fire/gunbattle...