COLLECTION

LES MOUCHOIRS DE KABILA

Sarah Vanagt
"Large parts of Goma were covered with lava after the eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano in January 2002. Today children live in the ruins on the lava. They sell paper handkerchiefs to grown-ups in the city, and lava rocks to construction builders...

MOSCOW X

Ken Kobland
A camcorder diary and chronicle of public opinion filmed in Moscow during the fall of 1990, a time of huge political an economic changes in the former Soviet Union. The tape reveals Kobland’s own fascination with the diversity and complexity of the Russian’s reactions to such changes...

HEY! HET IS... HUM... DINGES... HUM... TARZAN!

Emilio López-Menchero
The starting point of the group show Over the Edges (2000) is the notion of corner. The curator of the show Jan Hoet wanted to highlight the corners of the city as structural accents...

UNMASTERED BEHAVIOUR

Wim Catrysse
The video works of Wim Catrysse are sometimes relics of performances. Here we look at video projections of performers who constantly try to keep their balance and who are trapped in a spiral of desperate, continuous movement. The compulsive, repetitive nature makes the viewer undergo the sensations of the actions of the performers: as if he too is on moving ground...

SHOOTING OF FIRE

Messieurs Delmotte
A short video-performance starring a plastic soccer ball on a football field. Monsieur Delmotte enters the field, pours fuel on the ball and sets it on fire. Then, he kicks the ball toward the goal in the back of the field. The fire on the ball extinguished but the fire keeps on burning on the original spot of the ball. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

ISLAND FLYER: A POSTCARD FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT

Rebecca Jane Arthur
In Island Flyer: A Postcard from the Isle of Wight, Rebecca Jane Arthur takes us on a journey to an island in the English Channel in pursuit of summertimes gone by....

Leçon de Vie, 1995, Boris Lehman © the artist

LEÇON DE VIE

Boris Lehman
This film consists of poetic and philosophical variations on the theme of Paradise lost, or the loss of innocence necessary to reach a state of knowing. Here, a selection of men, women and children try to converse alone with nature, with water, the sky, flowers, trees, insects.....

C'EST MOY QUE JE PEINS, WIE ALLEEN STAAT HEEFT RECHT VAN SPREKEN

Jef Cornelis
“C’est moy que je peins” wrote Montaigne to make it clear to the reader that he wrote his Essays in order to be seen in his “simple, natural, everyday fashion, without striving or artifice.” Writing in this instance turns out to be a basic tool for introspection and an attempt to make manifest the writer’s subjectivity...

ORNAMENTE DES WILLENS

Koen Theys
Using the same images as in ‘Mediastudien (nach Heinrich Hoffmann)’, Koen Theys continues here in transforming Hitler’s body as a decorative ornament. The title is a combination of ‘Das Massornament’ by Siegfried Kracauer and ‘Triumph des Willens’ by Leni Riefenstahl. The piano was improvised in realtime with the projection of the video....

PANTYHEAD

Alison Murray
In ’Pantyhead’ Murray tackles the scary dreams and exciting nightmares of girls and boys in the age of prime time television and decent citizens. TV Girl works in her family’s Chinese Take Away. Channel-hopping is her companion. A man with knickers on his head comes off the TV and into her midst. Battle ensues...