COLLECTION

VIDÉO RELATIONNELLE (1973 - 1974): DIALOGUE AVEC UNE CAMÉRA

Jacques Lennep
A mixture between a camera study and a performance wherein the artist communicates with the camera in sign language using flags to communicate his message....

20. JULI AACHEN 1964

Wolf Vostell
Often Vostell recycles images for his videos, like for '20 July 1964 Aachen', when a dé-coll/age happening was organized at the Technical University of Aachen. The date coincides with the anniversary of the failed attempt to kill Hitler. The happening itself involved a festival of new music and a protest against totalitarian structures...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 79. THE BOXERS

Steve Reinke
Pure sensation. Pillow of flesh. White cotton sheets. Emerge into daylight. Spring mechanism....

GENT, 10 JUNI 1989, VOOR GERALDINE NEREA

Jan Vromman
In this video Vromman shows us virtuoso how a “plan séquence” is capable of exploring a given spatial arrangement notably an abandoned church in Ghent. It is as though the camera possesses a will of its own, or, more appropriately, as it became itself a dancer within the given space...

HIT HIM ON THE HEAD WITH A HARD HEAVY HAMMER

Rebecca Jane Arthur
Hit Him on the Head with a Hard, Heavy Hammer departs from the handwritten memoir of the filmmaker’s father and his experience of displacement during wartime. Referring to the notion Thomas Hardy termed ‘The Self-Unseeing’ in his eponymous 1901 poem, the film returns to childhood and the matters that harden us...

Vas-y mon Ange toi aussi tu en as une belle, 1988, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

VAS-Y MON ANGE TOI AUSSI TU EN AS UNE BELLE

Angel Vergara
As Straatman, Vergara was sitting in a tent on the street, right in front of the Gallery for Fine Arts in Brussels, where on that day an exhibition by Rombouts and Droste was opening, and later beside the Centre for Fine Arts. He carried painter’s equipment and spoke to spectators...

MUSÉE DE L'HOMME (AUTRES)

Jacques Lennep
Musée de l'homme is a series with three characters, who each have a specific hobby and a specific urge to collect things....

DÉ-COLL/AGE VIDEO-FILMS 1963-1971

Wolf Vostell
Wolf Vostell appropriated the term “Décollage” from the Nouveaux Réalistes, who used the word to describe their artistic practice of re-using wall posters as artworks by ripping them and exhibiting them as social documents of a certain urban archaeology...

Imobilaria Benicasim, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

IMOBILIARIA BENICASSIM

Angel Vergara
With a pencil, and later with a brush, Vergara follows the contours and structure of an apartment building in Benicasim, a municipality of Castelló and the Knokke of Spain....

WAITING FOR THE SECRET

Meggy Rustamova
Waiting for a Secret takes it starting point from a picture, revealing its secrets by zooming into the various details. Gradually, the picture becomes alive, raising issues such as isolation, linguistical confusion, pixelisation and the suggestion of movement within a still image....