COLLECTION

CENTRAL ALBERTA

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
Bestgore.com (BG) was created by Slovak-Canadian Mark Marek in 2008. The website hosts explicit photographic and video material of events including murders, suicides, torture, mutilation and horrific accidents. With an estimated 40 million yearly visits, BG is currently the biggest shock site in the world. Through authored opinion and user comments, the website exalts extreme ideas...

VISIONS OF A DISAPPEARANCE

Vito Acconci
Seated in a corner, Acconci is enclosed by a video camera and a monitor. They show him the same scene that he plays at that moment. Acconci tries to disappear; he wants his own image to be erased in the eyes of those who are watching. Initially he calls out for a possible viewer. There must be someone who watches – without a witness he cannot prove that he can make himself disappear...

UNTITLED PART 9: THIS TIME

Jayce Salloum
Out of the mouths of rural boys, finding the incomparable Mulla Nasrudin in Afghanistan. After my first year of art school in San Francisco in 1978, I quit, and headed to the Banff School of Fine Arts to do a year long residency program. The instructor Hu Hohn got me hooked on Sufi stories such as, "The Exploits and Subtleties of the incomparable Mulla Nasrudin"...

EXTINGUISHERS

Messieurs Delmotte
Delmotte empties the contents of two fire-extinguishers on his costume. When the job is finished, he wipes the white stains off his clothes and walks away, leaving behind a powdery trail. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

AUTO-FIEBER

Wolf Vostell
A registration of Vostell’s legendary 1973 happening/ performance ‘Auto-Fieber’, an assignment of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Akademie der Künste. For this happening at a Berlin open terrain, cars were placed in close rows...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 14 : COBOY ET INDIEN FONT DU CAMPING

Stéphane Aubier - Vincent Patar
As the title says, Cowboy and Indian go out camping. They find the perfect spot on top of a hill. They put up the tent, and install their mattresses and barbecue, but then Cowboy does something really stupid: his gun accidentally goes off and he shoots a hole in his air mattress. The two then decide to gather wood and go hunting...

RALFS FARBEN

Lukas Marxt
“We can’t use the same light, we have to use completely new keys with completely new light and even these can be found to a limited extent,” says Ralf at one point...

UNTITLED (B&W)

Valérie Mannaerts
This video consists of four uncut sequences of light, distance and looking. First the fingers of two hands are forming different shapes. They seem to be indicating an amount of space, distance or mass. Or maybe they are telling the viewer what he or she should look at? Secondly images of the broad sky are recorded...

THINK ABOUT WOOD, THINK ABOUT METAL

Manon de Boer
In a series of films in which we discover the portrait of a woman, Manon de Boer prolongs her experiments during the meeting with Robyn Schulkowsky. In Italy and then Germany, the rotation of the lens leads us in a false loop where the visible is metamorphosed by the audible...

WALKER, LA VALSIÈRE

Thomas Bernardet - Florent Mulot
Walker 3 is a survey of the Domaine de Valsière, in the suburbs of Montpellier. This unbuilt "natural" space, encircled by dwellings, was ravaged by a fire during the 2003 heat wave. In this lunar space that evokes a deserted battlefield and a western movie, the two artists scrutinize the terrain, searching for traces of a former state, evidence of a past life...