COLLECTION

Silent Elections, 2009 Sarah Vanagt © the artist(s) & producer(s)

SILENT ELECTIONS

Sarah Vanagt
The power goes off and the screen goes black: one of those innumerable moments of darkness when the buried memories from decades of conflict suddenly resurface. In the streets of Goma, children play at being news correspondents: Congo is preparing for its first democratic elections since 1960...

MORELE HERBEWAPENING

Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
The term “morele herbewapening” stands for “moral rearmament”. The tape combines images from glossy magazines from the 50s and 60s, mainly home interiors, with drawings of nude women...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II

Michel Bonnemaison - Jacques Lederlin - Joëlle de La Casinière
A number of structural modules (design and music) and a rule set are introduced to twenty-odd video artists; with these elements the artists were supposed to produce a video about an application of the video medium (surveillance, simulation, etc.)...

AU BALCON DE TITI

Yasmina Benari
After 11 years in jail and a life spent hoping to see a free and fairly ruled Egypt, Titi alias Albert Arrié witnesses 2011 riots from his own balcony. He is 81. The film follows Titi over the course of two years, as hope turns to dust and present meets the past. At Titi's Balcony is a voyage, oscillating between inner and outer worlds...

SOMETHING LIKE THAT !

Messieurs Delmotte
A video installation produced at the occasion of Brugge 2002 cultural capital of Europe. The installation is presented on a flat screen, mounted on the wall. A fishbowl stands on a table with a big coloured fish. A hand takes the fish, lifts it out of the bowl and throws it back in. This action is repeated continuously for about three minutes. The video is played in loop....

UNE TACHE DE SILENCE

Lili Dujourie
The first frame shows a corridor and a black light switch. A woman walks into the frame from the left, into the corridor, and then returns ... The stain on the wall, meaningless figure at first hand, gains meaning little by little. The space is constructed with a pronounced depth, with a foreground and a background, and with doors that lead to spaces beyond the frame...

White Shadows, 2009, Didier Volckaert © the artist

WHITE SHADOWS

Didier Volckaert
The first scientific expedition in the history of human exploration was launched in 1897. Destination: the recently discovered continent of Antarctica, which for more than 17 centuries had been nothing but an idea, a presumption, a myth. The Belgica expedition successfully reached Antarctica… and froze fast there...

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....

VARKENSPEST / PESTE PORCINE

Jan Vromman
For several times the native village of the video maker, Wingene, was an epicentre of swine fever. Shaken by the mass destruction of pigs the artist made a poetical videogram with some self-made images and images from the TV news. Homage to the swines who fell on the sacrificial altars of profit seeking....

OOG EN HAND ALS UITDRUKKING 01

Jef Cornelis
For the art programme 'Openbaar Kunstbezit' Cornelis made two essayistic television reports in 1972 about the use of hands and eyes in the visual arts, “a way to look and to communicate.” With regard to its form, 'Oog en hand als uitdrukking 01' ('Eye and hand as expression 01') is very free, certainly bearing in mind the television standards of the time...