COLLECTION

COMMAND PERFORMANCE

Vito Acconci
In this work Acconci again speaks directly to the viewer – “You, you are there in the space, somebody is there, you are there” – wherein the artist makes an attempt to change places with the viewer. The artist lies on his back with his head facing the camera. Or in other words: from the perspective of the viewer he is seen upside-down...

ALONG THE SIDES ALONG

Mira Sanders
Mira Sanders explores the potential of journeying to touch upon and visualise cultural, historical and sensory limits. For Along the Sides Along, Sanders retraces the boundaries of her own oeuvre by employing the methods of inventorising, cataloguing and exploration...

ZEEDIJK KNOKKE-HEIST

Danny Matthys
The video starts from four videotapes, shot from a car (left, right, front and back) leaving the sea-front promenade at Knokke-Heist. The perception of this straight street is first of all analysed into four components by four cameras...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MARIAGE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
On the background a camera man suggests the viewer to record his or her marriage on video tape. Even if he is sad that the girl, of whom he’s recording images of her wedding dress, refused his proposal....

MY WEBGIRL

Pascal Bernier
Three short video sketches made with minimal means and based on samples from various media (mainly the internet and pop music), creating a form of ‘garage- video’, with no other ambition, according to Bernier himself, than the generation of specific emotions which might also pop up when listening to loud rock music or watching pornographic films...

FROM SATIN ISLAND

Johan Grimonprez
A haunting collage of disaster and beauty, set to a shimmering track by Lights Out Asia, Johan Grimonprez in collaboration with acclaimed avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, based on an abstract from his latest book SATIN ISLAND....

DEER STALKING

Wim Catrysse
A study of how the body and its surroundings relate is recurring theme in Wim Catrysse’s early installations. In Deer Stalking, a single-channel installation from 1996, we notice a vague shape with antlers that seems to crawl about in a small space. Because of the stroboscopic light, the shape can only be seen at intervals...

LA PREMIÈRE PARTIE DU ROI HENRY IV DE W. SHAKESPEARE : UNE ANALOGIE

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
This work is the cinematic adaptation of a chapter from the book ’Absolument nécessaire’ (a nomadic album of graphic poetry) according to the idea - already quite apparrent at the time - of the multimedia work, incorporating writing, image and sound...

LORSQUE LE BATEAU DE LÉON M. DESCENDIT LA MEUSE POUR LA PREMIÈRE FOIS

Jean-Pierre Dardenne
A black-and-white video introduced by the brothers (looking like long-haired radicals) that revisits key people and places in Seraing’s workers demonstration for health insurance in 1960...