COLLECTION

BABULIA [SECOND CHAPTER OF INSTALLATION, ENGLISH VERSION]

Nora Martirosyan
"Two chapters, two time periods, one story. On the one hand, 1937, at the height of the Stalinist purges in Erevan, in the soviet Armenia, the year of the arrest of Nora Dabagian’s father who was a political dissident. On the other hand, 2006, the circumstantial story of this arrest related by the old woman, affectionally known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in the 1930ies...

NON-LIEUX, PART I

Pascal Baes
An attempt to exorcise the satanic aspects of negativism: the gothic-romantic phantoms, the Eido-Kabuki or Tibetans are creatures that failed to achieve a specific goal in their lives. They keep returning because of this unfinished business. There is the negation of choreographic movement, of tourist scenery and local aesthetic value...

THE MOVEMENT OF PHILL NIBLOCK

Maurits Wouters
The movement of Phill Niblock is a portrait of dronecomposer, structural filmer and NewYork sixties-icon Phill Niblock. He was one of the personal photographers of Charles Mingus & Duke Ellington. Later on he worked in Judson Dance Theatre and shot a film for Yvonne Rainer. On Niblock's 60th birthday Sonic Youth did a performance in his loft...

PANIQUE AU VILLAGE, ÉPISODE 4 : UNE SÉANCE DE POSE

Vincent Patar - Stéphane Aubier
Cowboy is unpleasantly woken up by a fly buzzing around the room. Battling with the beast, he wakes up Indian. A little later the two men get a new neighbour: the art gallery/hobby shop PicPicasso, run by Saint Joseph and his particularly short-skirted assistant. Once Indian has purchased an easel, canvas, paint and brushes, the entire village feels the call to start up painting...

EGYPT 2002

Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée’s piece is a video portrait of modern Egypt. Video clips of traditional and modern aspects of life in Egypt are juxtaposed. From architecture to mummified corpses in the desert, Coca-Cola advertisements to a busy traffic junction, wedding dresses to a reverse image of a statue. Pacquée blends the stereotypical with the unexpected, the familiar and the unfamiliar...

HAMLETMACHINE

Hänzel & Gretzel
Four suspended monitors or video projectors form a ‘cathodic helmet’. In it Hänzel & Gretzel makes us read, see, and wait for their own interpretation of the Hamlet Machine, after the text by Heiner Müller...

CITTADELLARTE, 2009, Fabio Wuytack © the artist & producers

CITTADELLARTE

Fabio Wuytack
Michelangelo Pistoletto, painter and art theorist, founded an art city called CITTADELLARTE in an abandoned textile factory near Biella, Italy in 1996. It was part of his programme ’Progetto Arte’, which aimed to bring together and integrate all aspects of human life and experience – the artistic and creative combined with the social and economic...

BRING US TO OURSELVES, MIKHAÏL

Emmanuel Van der Auwera
In an airport somewhere, a puppet of Mikhaïl Gorbatchev gives a monologue in the dark, gripped by the threat of the catastrophe erupting outside. Powerless and unable to react, he awaits the creeping collapse of his world. Bring us to ourselves, Mikhaïl is a video-essay, somewhere in between a fiction-documentary and a filmed puppet-show...

TO EACH HIS OWN MASK

Tine Guns
We live in times of crises and failing economic systems. No wonder that questions of change are recurrent. Protest culture is having a revival. Every revolution has its icons. Nowadays, we see the mask show up. Wearing a mask is a carnivalesque strategy. Carnival is a ritual, temporarily dismantling social and political regimes, suspending norms and values...

ZOLANG ER SCHEEPSBOUWERS ZINGEN

Jan Vromman
The decline of the shipbuilding industry induced director Vromman to tell the story of the Boelwerf, Belgium’s last active shipyard. At the same time, this particular story runs parallel to a part of the general social-economic history: it tells the tale of belief in unlimited expansion turned into uncertainty and social uprising...