COLLECTION

BOARDGAME, OR FROM THE RANKS TO FIELD MARSHAL

Wendy Morris
From the Ranks to Field Marshal is a World War I game of obstacles and rewards. In this Union of South Africa adaption recruitment is micro-managed. Home is denied by the Land Act. Weapons are replaced by tools of labour. Accommodation is controlled within a system of closed compounds. Recruits board ships for France to the sound of S.E...

Blue, Ria Pacquée, 2009. Courtesy the Artist

BLUE

Ria Pacquée
From her house, Ria Pacquée walks to the nearby art centre Extra City in Antwerp. She carries a long wooden lath that covers a large part of her face. While the setting might make one think of the typical comedy ladder drill, Pacquée performs her movements with precision and a deadpan seriousness....

MIKKADO

Michel François
A clenched fist holds a bundle of mikkado-sticks. They can both be considered as cores. Each core is threatened by extinction. It hangs on, concentrates, contracts. The denser it becomes, the more imminent its extinction. The hand opens and the sticks spread out on the table....

Avant-garde citizens: Samm’s story, 2007, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson © the artists

AVANT-GARDE CITIZENS: SAMM’S STORY

Libia Castro - Ólafur Ólafsson
Samm relates a unique story of flight and survival. After being forcibly recruited as a soldier in Liberia, he manages to escape imprisonment and certain death, to find himself unexpectedly in Rotterdam. His experiences with the Dutch immigration and asylum system, as well as the criminal justice system, read as a saga that would be impossible to make up....

TORERO / TORPEDO (8 DE MAYO 2005, MARTA HERFORD)

Emilio López-Menchero
Torero / Torpedo (8 de Mayo 2005, MARTa Herford) is the second video recording of this series of performances. At the occasion of opening of the exhibition (my private) HEROES curated by Jan Hoet, the Belgian curator invited Emilio López-Menchero to perform his biker-torero alter-ego. The museum MARTa conceived by Frank O...

MUSÉE DE L'HOMME (POST-PRODUCTIONS)

Jacques Lennep
In the seventies Jacques Lennep worked on his ‘Musée de l’homme’, a series of exhibitions, performances and videos in which eight figures were shown over the course of time in an artistic context, according to a wayward conception of sociological art...

O.M.A. REM KOOLHAAS

Jef Cornelis
An interview with architect Rem Koolhaas in the building of his architectural firm OMA (’Office for metropolitan architecture’) in Rotterdam...

DAGBOEK

Luc Deleu
During the month of April, Deleu recorded his own audio-visual journal. He marks the days by using a tear-off calendar. A stream of images portray the artist’s every day life, inside his home and on the streets. The glimmering of city lights at night, the luring advertisements and the headlines of newspapers are captured on film...

INOUT

Anton Bruhin
Anton Bruhin ‎– InOut Label: Alga Marghen – plana-B 3TES.015 Format: CD, Album Country: Italy Released: 1998 Genre: Electronic, Non-Music Style: Spoken Word, Experimental (source: https://www.discogs.com)...

CONTAINER 03: DE PUNTZAK VAN HEINE

Jef Cornelis
“What is it with history: providence, coincidence, irony or fate?”. This is a quote from one of the letters that have been selected to be read out in the letter project ‘De Puntzak van Heine’. The project is extended through the medium of television, reflecting on a number of inherent questions...