COLLECTION

AN EXPERIMENT IN LEISURE

Manon de Boer
Excerpts of texts by psychoanalyst Marion Milner (1900-1998) on concentration, the body, repetition, daydreaming and open-ended time as conditions for creation are read and reflected upon by different artists...

AND_04-2020

Peter Downsbrough
In: Place #3, Janvier/ January 2021, D’UNE PLACE L’AUTRE / CHANGING PLACES https://www.place-plateforme.com/place3/peter-downsbrough-and.html AND_04.2020 opens with a black screen and the sound of a man’s voice rising over the noise of traffic. His words are hard to distinguish, but their tones and cadence indicate they might be Chinese...

MARSHALL MCLUHAN

Jef Cornelis
In this short documentary film, Georges Adé (1936-1992), is sitting in the Antwerp municipal library, presents the book Culture is our business (1970) by the Canadian philosopher and communication theorist Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980). Adé shows reproductions of advertisements from the book and reads extracts from it...

Kolonel Korsakov, Frank Theys, 1992. Courtesy the Artist

KOLONEL KORSAKOV

Frank Theys

SAHARA CHRONICLE : A COLLECTION OF VIDEOS ON MOBILITY AND THE POLITICS OF CONTAINMENT IN THE SAHARA

Ursula Biemann
A collection of videos on mobility and the politics of containment in the Sahara...

APHASIA

Jelena Jureša
Aphasia focuses on the absurdity that arises from the collective silence surrounding crime and the compartmentalisation of historical events. In medical vocabulary ‘aphasia’ refers to the sufferer’s difficulty in finding words or losing the ability to speak...

TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE VANISHING PRESENT

Raphaël Cuomo - Maria Iorio
Toward a history of the vanishing present researches the economies of visibility in relation to past and present mobility regimes over the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The resulting body of works manifests divergent histories or unfinished negotiations that account for an entangled modernity....

2 FEET FOR 2 BALLS

Messieurs Delmotte
On a football field, a disabled man is standing. He stares at two balls, a red one and a yellow one. Suddenly, the balls start to move and get closer and closer to the man till they climb up to his arms. This work is part of the series UNDO / REDO...

LOOKING FORWARD, FRAGMENTING THE EDGES OF LOVE

Geoffroy De Volder
The screen was evenly divided over four frames on which fragments of wildlife documentaries, film classics and interviews with the makers and other artists are shown for the period of one hour, alternating with each other. Apart from a couple of formal similarities this hybrid conglomerate of found footage seems to show little coherence on the face of it...

ONEINDIGE BEPERKING, ETCETERA, 40.700 X9…

Filip Francis
The artist writes the equation space = time over and over again, on giant white canvases. He makes geometrical figures with them. He repeats this kind of gesture, by drawing the number nine infinite times....