COLLECTION

JUMPY CHICKEN

Messieurs Delmotte
This time the title is particularly ironic as the chicken is not actually jumping. Two strings are attached to its legs, which are used to pull the chicken away. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

AUTON

Alexis Destoop
Another little video-object originating from the same medical archive as "Quod", it is - quite literally - a looking into an eye's blind spot. Again, the source material actually represents area of the optical nerve in the iris...

MADAME PAUL SIX ET COMPAGNIE

Jacques Lennep
Madame Paul Six et compagnie is a sequel to Madame Paul Six, une infirmière qui a des lettres. The work is part of the series Musée de l’homme, for which Lennep follows eight individuals who own a special collection or who have special habits.Mrs Paul Six is a farmer who is partially disabled because of an illness...

OPEN BOOK

Vito Acconci
Acconci’s unnaturally wide-open mouth is filmed in extreme close-up, which puts the viewer uncomfortably close to the artist. Wrestling to keep his mouth open, his words are directed at the viewer. His incomprehensible voice forms an invitation: “I’m not closed, I’m open. Come in... I’ll accept you, I won’t shut down, I won’t shut you out.....

MEDIASTUDIEN (NACH HEINRICH HOFFMANN)

Koen Theys
In 1927 (years before he came to power in Germany), Adolf Hitler posed in a studio for his private photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. The pictures they made were used to study the dramatic effects of certain gestures, and how to use them during Hitler’s public apparitions. Hitler was one of the first (if not the first) politician(s) who introduced the idea of media-training...

PROGRAM FOR A COLD PLACE

Edith Dekyndt
'Program for a cold place' took place in February 2000. People who never met participated in this temporary experience. The purpose was to film in the open air a domestic phenomenon: the explosion in low temperature conditions of containers filled with a liquid. The team went out from Winnipeg to install a laboratory up in the Canadian North, in minus 30°C weather...

THE HUNDRED VIDEOS 86. SEVENTEEN DESCRIPTIONS

Steve Reinke
The guy in the shorts has never had the area between his testicles and anus licked....

MONSIEUR EZIO BUCCI, SUPPORTER - CHEZ LE COIFFEUR

Jacques Lennep
Video, apart from photography and holography, was but one of the media Lennep made use of during the 1970s, as he was adding on to his ‘museum of men’. His human models were derived from all layers of the populations, but they shared a common obsession for collecting things or, at the very, least an unusual passion...

CAT FOOD WOMAN

Alison Murray
A parody on the cat food commercial in which the food is always dished up lovingly by a nice lady looking as if she just walked out a beauty palour. Murray’s perceives things differently…...

EEN OPENBAAR BAD VOOR MUNSTER

Jef Cornelis
’Kasper König’s Münster Sculpture Project’ is an event held every ten years in Münster, a small city in the Rhine valley both near Cologne and Frankfurt. Münster got catapulted back in 1977, when curator König and Münster museum chief Klaus Bussmann set up a show of public art in the city...