COLLECTION

ROND EST LE MONDE

Olivier Dekegel
In the company of a mule and a Super8 camera, a filmmaker walks through the world enchanted by the beauty of all things. Inspired by Saint Francis of Assisi's "Praise of the Creatures", an enlightened and candid contemplation driven by the changing light of seasons. This film is an invitation to a voyage, a voyage around the world with the most simple and humble of all animals, the donkey...

TO FLOAT

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is fully dressed while drifting away with the current of a river. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

VIDÉO HEBDO 23

Claude Cattelain
With a snorkel on his mouth Cattelain rolls himself with tapes until he can stand it....

A NECESSARY MUSIC

Beatrice Gibson
A Necessary Music is a science fiction film about modernist social housing. A musically conceived piece, referencing the video operas of Robert Ashley, the film explores the social imaginary of a utopian landscape through directed attention to the voices that inhabit it. Roosevelt Island is a small sliver of land situated between Manhattan and Queens, intersected by the Queensborough Bridge...

Gabriel, 2003-2004, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

GABRIEL

Angel Vergara
Vergara asks Gabriel whether artists are free. His answer is negative, but he adds that he himself is free....

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - ART SURVEILLANCE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
Images of surveillance cameras combined with random television images, of for instance sport events and nature documentaries. The split screen images are accompanied by rhythmic music and a female voice-over. The video ironically exaggerates the aesthetic value of surveillance videos, which are to be considered as art forms....

MISSED CLONING

Messieurs Delmotte

UNIVERSAL STORY

Jung-Kyun Shin
This work starts with the artist visiting the military unit in which he served. It features his recollection of military service, a trip to the places in the narrative, and drawings of his memories. The artist juxtaposes his memories of military service with private memories, asking if special memories are general for all Korean men, related to a rite of passage....

AFTER EMPIRE

Herman Asselberghs
A search for the alternative to an image of meaning, inspired by Antonio Negri’s and Michael Hardt’s ‘Empire’. The insights from this politico-philosophical study on the contemporary world serve as a starting point for a reflection on positive forms of collective resistance and emancipatory representations in times of war...

HEUREUX SÉJOUR

Marta Bergman
"If I hadn't had my camera, I wouldn't have dared look at them so closely. There was a kind of uneasiness, discomfort, fear... Then behind the eyepiece - less cowardly, as if protected - I wanted to see and hear the silences and the stories, outside time. See and hear my grandmother and her neighbours in the rest home prepare themselves to depart from life and head for death"...