COLLECTION

WRITING DESIRE

Ursula Biemann
Writing Desire is about the rapport between words and body and the creation of desire. The fast-paced video links the writing of romantic desire by means of electronic communication technologies to the increasing disembodiment of sexuality and commercialized gender relations. The booming bride market emerges as a site where the virtual and the physical exchange of bodies converge...

THE RABBIT AND THE TEASEL

Els Dietvorst
In a world where petty opinions, hysteria, commotion and emotion have become the norm and neo-liberal humanity is rapidly losing sight of the path to happiness, The Rabbit And The Teasel is a breath of fresh air. Fiction and autobiographical elements mingle in a lyrical tale that drags the viewer into a universe of beauty, death, and decay...

STAGING SILENCE (3)

Hans Op de Beeck
Staging Silence (3) is the third and final installment in a series of autonomous art films, all realised according to the same principles. In the three films, two pairs of anonymous hands construct and deconstruct fictional interiors and landscapes on a mini film set of just three square meters in size...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 20. DEAF

Steve Reinke
My father exists in a large room where he lectures to an audience which is mesmerized despite the fact that they are deaf and, moreover, cannot even lip-read as they speak a wholly other language....

Promethée, 1987, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PROMÉTHÉE

Angel Vergara
Vergara hangs up a banner of cut-out contours of human figures in a street adjacent to the Quays: the street of Micheline Szwajcer, in Antwerp-South. The human figures are trying to grab a yellow sphere. The title of the work suggests that they represents Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods. Initially Walter Swennen films while Angel Vergara holds the banner, and later the two swap roles....

OWNER OF THE VOYAGE

Jan Dietvorst - Roy Villevoye
Since 1992, Roy Villevoye has frequently visited Papua, the former Dutch New Guinea. Visual artist Jan Dietvorst has joined him regularly; together they produce an oeuvre of films that deal with the influences to which the local people, the Asmat, have been exposed since their first contact with Western outsiders in the 1950s...

IN SEARCH OF WHITE

Ria Pacquée
Ria Pacquée takes the camera for a stroll around the three very different environments of city, mountain and sea. Cataloguing the white objects and images found, these three chapters isolate symbols and colourlessness, exploring absence and negativity in three different contexts. Each image evokes a range of associations and responses, whether emotional or intellectual...

TU NE VERRAS PAS VERAPAZ

Didier Volckaert - An van. Dienderen
There is an old song from Ghent, ‘Wie goat er mee noar Verapas?’ (Who goes along to Verapaz?), that was popular at the beginning of the last century. It refers to an unfamiliar piece of Belgium’s history: the former Belgian colony in Guatemala, Santo Tomas de Castilla...

YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN

Bo Vloors
"You know what I mean" observes the entrance of a mosque in Saint Louis, Senegal. The audio, emphasized with subtitles, is a live conversation between two European citizens who reflect on the intensity of their experience and what they see....

IJSBREKER 09: WOENSDAGAVONDKOORTS: LET'S DANCE

Jef Cornelis - Jackie Claeys - Mark De Geest - Karel Schoetens
An edition of ’Ijsbreker’ on rolling dancing movements, taking a look at the widest range of forms, including cha cha cha, quickstep, tap dancing and the Chinese art of movement TaiChi Tao...