COLLECTION

Biscuter, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

BISCUTER

Angel Vergara
Archive images depict a race between little cars in the streets of Castelló. They are doing laps in the city. The Biscuter used to have a two-stroke engine and is a striking piece of heritage dating from Franco’s Spain in the fifties. The images function as central starting point in the exhibition, which is also considered a kind of circuit....

LIMBO. THE EARTH IS HARD

Ira A. Goryainova
In the aftermath of global irreversible climate changes something went wrong in nature’s circle of life and death – human bodies ceased to decompose. In a field hospital amidst a forest, nurses take care of patients whose death is delayed....

FLOWERS SERIAL KILLER

Pascal Bernier
Flowers Serial Killer is an out and out SNUFF MOVIE.  However, the inherent horror in this genre is tinged with farce because of the nature of the victims, flowers and cacti, very much living organisms but with a "lesser importance" according to our mammiferous criteria. ‘SnuffMovie’ where the (real) victims are flowers. Eight real murders...

THE STEWARTS HAVE A PARTY

Hans Op de Beeck
The Stewarts are a carefully cast fictitious family. The various members appear and disappear in an empty white room, like life-sized marionettes dressed in white. As is customary in the sub-genre of marionette theatre, they are manipulated by black-clothed puppeteers who are part of the set entourage: production assistants, a makeup girl and a hair stylist...

EXTINGUISHERS

Messieurs Delmotte
Delmotte empties the contents of two fire-extinguishers on his costume. When the job is finished, he wipes the white stains off his clothes and walks away, leaving behind a powdery trail. This work is part of the series Brokendown Dream...

Shy Gardener I, Peter Finnemore, 2005. Courtesy the Artist

SHY GARDENER I

Peter Finnemore
In the short video Shy Gardener I, the camera films a garden and, on the background, a fields where cows calmly graze. Peter Finnemore intervenes on this pastoral landscape hided behind a sunflower....

QUIBERON, BRETAGNE, FRANCE, ON A DOLMEN

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
When visiting a Dolmen in Brittany, France, Van Kerckhoven asked Danny Devos to lay down naked on his stomach with his legs open, a piece of wood tied between his ankles, his hands tied behind his back. A secret performance to pay an hommage to the time they met and when Devos did the performance 'I Wanna be Injured' at the end of Van Kerckhoven's exhibition '=Basic' in Art Something, Amsterdam...

21 ÉTUDES À DANSER

Thierry De Mey
The question here is how to merge dancing footage with elements of fiction. What is the right tone, the golden proportion to tell and dance the stories without resorting to techniques of a musical or a ballet? New ways of telling a story: this is, without a doubt, a critical challenge for dance today...

BEAVER SKULL MAGICK

Steve Reinke
Two sections. In the first, the notorious internet video, Shake the Bear, in which a woman shoots and kills from a tree a bear and has sex on the body, is described and commented shot by shot. In the second section, archival footage of Grey Owl, a British man who famously fooled the Canadian nation pretending to be a Native Canadian, interacting with beavers is discussed....

SPEECH BUBBLE

Adam Leech
The main concerns of Adam Leech’s work are the semantics of voice versus speech and the political engineering of public space and community. Speech Bubble began as an investigation into the bankruptcy of the Belgian high-tech speech recognition company, Lernout & Hauspie...