COLLECTION

UN PO’ DI FEBBRE

Claudio Pazienza
Three immobile women, on a three-street intersection, are waiting. Then other figures appear. Long and austere shots evoke the skirmishes between policemen and miners in Flemish Limburg, by the end of the eighties during the closing of the mines....

RACE WOOL

Messieurs Delmotte
A race between ten colourful balls of wool, creatively conducted by Messieurs Delmotte. A registration of a playful, somewhat absurd performance in the best Messieurs Delmotte-tradition. This work is part of the series The Mental Reason Vol. 1...

THAT'S THE WAY IT IS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte further explores his fascination for the hidden fantasies of the human body, with the intention of exposing it completely. In ’That’s the way it is’ parts of the body keep coming into focus, deprived of their context, conspicuously in the foreground of city views....

THE PERFECT WAVE

Nicolas Provost
The Perfect Wave is a fascinating looped video of a surfer who keeps going and going on what indeed looks like a perfect wave. It’s a metaphor for what the artist calls the human desire for an endless orgasm....

ANAL MASTURBATION & OBJECT LOSS

Steve Reinke
The artist decides to found his own art school and begins by assembling materials for the library. Finding too many words are available, he glues together the unnecessary pages of books....

LESSER APES

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
Lesser Apes tells the story of a love affair between a primatologist, Farrah and a female bonobo ape, Meema. Bonobos are the species with which humans share the most DNA, but unlike our species, they are matriarchal, live without conflict, and are unabashedly sexual...

TECHNOCALYPS - DEEL 1: TRANSHUMAN

Frank Theys
Technocalyps is a 3 part documentary about ‘transhumanism’, an ideology assuming that we approach an era where humans, as we know them, are no longer the driving force of civilization. All technological developments seem to converge to one main goal: to overcome humanity, to try and create something transhuman...

YOU WERE AN AMAZEMENT ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN

Cooper Battersby - Emily Vey Duke
You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born is a visually stunning film that follows a woman through a life characterized by damage and loss, but in which she finds humor, love, and joy. With a score that follows the span of Lenore’s life, from her birth in the early 70s to her death in the 2040s, the film takes us from moments of harrowing loss to those of poignancy and dark humor...

HERE

Peter Downsbrough
A video triptych (‘And’, ‘Here’, ‘As...’) fully recorded in the area around Lille and Tourcoing, commissioned for the exhibition ‘La ville qui fait signes’ at Le Fresnoy (autumn 2004)...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE I

Joëlle de La Casinière - Michel Bonnemaison
Some twenty video artists from the French school (among others Robert Cahen, Didier Bay, J.C. Bouvet, Yves le Marrec) are briefly portrayed in turns; they produce slogan-like comments on the medium of video art....