COLLECTION

VOICE-OVER

Roy Villevoye
Set in the Asmat region in the Indonesian part of New Guinea, Voice-Over overlays the construction of a traditional wooden sculpture with a phone call about a sales deal gone wrong. The death of Roy Villevoye’s Papuan friend Omoma is the reason for the creation of the sculpture, a ritual that also functions as a memorial ceremony...

VOMIT STAR

Steve Reinke - John Marriott
In 1997, John Marriott proposed ’Vomit Star’, a six-foot star constructed from fake vomit, for his solo exhibition at the Power Plant Toronto. The project was rejected, regrets lingered. “Marriott and Reinke demonstrate the affirmative value of domestic voodoo in this descent into crime-scene-glitter-porn (which is presumably one word in German)...

Mariage d'Art et Entreprise, 2004, Angel Vergara Santiago & Benoît Eugene © the artist

MARIAGE D'ART ET ENTREPRISE

Angel Vergara - Benoît Eugene
A recording of the performace written and directed by Benoît Eugene and Angel Vergara in collaboration with the collective plus tôt te laat (camera & editing) during the Lille 2004 festival. Art and Entrepreneurship are getting married by Europe (Imbal Yalon). Attending the ceremony are Industry and Insurance Institute, father and mother respectively of Entrepreneurship...

TRAUNSTEIN

Nicolas Dufranne - Julie Gasemi
Claire discovers that she appears in a poor quality film found on the internet. She sees herself at the window of her house, accompanied by a man she does not know. They look like they are in love. She decides to set out in search of that stranger, towards Traunstein. The characters are caught up in a narrative which seems to repeat itself indefinitely...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 18. LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

Steve Reinke
Flowers express an obscure vegetal resolution....

AU QUART DE TOUR

Antonin De Bemels
In ’Au quart de tour’ a character moves through a black image. Because of the musical editing in De Bemels’s typical stroboscope-like and fragmentary style it seems as if the character moves about hectically, though in reality he hardly moves foreward at all....

Drapeaux MuKHA, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

DRAPEAUX MUHKA

Angel Vergara
Vergara is wrapped up in a white canvas, which is tied to a tree at the Quays of Antwerp-South, not far from where MuHka is. Vergara is looking in the direction of the canvas and tree. At that time, an exhibition was taking place in and around MuHKA for which artists had designed flags. Walter Swennen, among others, appears onscreen....

TIME - CODE / 1434

Andreas Brehmer - Christine de la Garenne
In ‘time-code’, a new relationship is installed between painting and video. The images registered by a surveillance camera, that is transmitting the video signal to a surveillance monitor, are being filmed for a second time by another camera. The screen is revealing the image of a painting. A Flemish masterpiece anno 1434. The video ‘feels’ the surface of the painting...

UN PIED DANS LE JARDIN DE MIEL

Bernard Mulliez
Within the framework of Europalia Europa festival (2007-2008), the CIVA in partnership with a supermarket group organized an exhibition called Supermarkets of Europe 1957-2007 in La Cambre Architecture School.Initially a mere financial supporter, the trade group became the very object of the exhibition, which illustrates the final outcome of the privatization of the cultural public services...

SYLVIA KRISTEL - PARIS

Manon de Boer
Between November 2000 and June 2002 Manon de Boer recorded the stories and memories of the actress Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic ‘Emmanuelle’...