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ALTOGETHER

Herman Asselberghs
The future is dark which is, on the whole, the best thing the future can be, I think.” With this observation as a starting-point, “Altogether” fully acknowledges the ideological impasse of the post 68-era...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - FAST FOOD

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
This video starts with a male voice-over telling us fast food is paradise. Images of hamburgers and drinks being prepared pop up on the split-screens, along with random TV images and a music video....

FULL MOON RISING

Michel Lorand
FULL MOON RISING is an almost dichromatic film. The colour green is superimposed with footage filmed with a night vision camera. The camera remains fixed during the entire film, while the moon travels in real time across the screen, from the bottom left corner to the top right one. This ascending journey determines the length of the film...
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MAN WALKING

Charley Case
In ‘(Man walking)’ nothing but the feet and legs of a man are shown, inexhaustibly walking through the desert, mud, rivers, over rocks and mountains, asphalt and sidewalks and over a city rooftop, where he ultimately loses his balance and drops down to the ground. The sequence might be seen as a story, unfolding itself between life and death....
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FLASHFORWARD

Eran Schaerf - Eva Meyer
The work of Meyer and Schaerf explores the transitional area between the meaningless and the meaningful, especially the process during which unrelated scraps of meaning move between various possibilities, ultimately converging into a cluster of emotions and associations. At the same time traditional sign systems of language, image and sound are undermined and new relations are proposed...

LA VIE SEXUELLE DES BELGES 1950-1978

Jan Bucquoy
Jan Bocquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels...
Gand Est, 2007 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s) Gand Est, 2007 Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist(s) & producer(s)

GAND

Angel Vergara
Vergara films this piece from the Book Tower in Ghent, each time in a different wind direction. While the camera covers the sky and parts of Ghent, Vergara uses a brush. On the edge of the Book Tower’s terrace lies a catalogue from Chambres d’Amis, an exhibition held in Ghent in 1986 and featuring several art interventions set up in domestic interiors in Ghent...

THE DRESS

Ken Kobland
THE DRESS is a projection prop created for a performance piece at the Art Institute in 1984. It was installed in March 2021, suspended in front of a building on the Bowery as both a memorial to my grandmother, a Hungarian immigrant and master seamstress, and to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, which occurred a few blocks north of this site. (EJay Sims)  ...

10TH OF NOVEMBER | 09:05

Els Opsomer
Every year on 10th of November | 09:05 in the morning, individuals across Turkey cease all activities - cars pull over, pedestrians stop and stand still - in remembrance of the death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey), which occurred on this day and time in 1938...

UNE ÉCLIPSE TOTALE DE SOLEIL

Ghédalia Tazartès
2009 repress of this 2nd CD, originally released 1998. "Probably represents the most original example of the artist’s poetical and personal approach to sound organisation...