OVERVIEW TITLES

NEDERLANDSE ARCHITECTUUR. HET NIEUWE BOUWEN 1920 - 1940

Jef Cornelis
A short reflection on Dutch architecture between 1920 and 1940, following and based on an exhibition in the van Abbe museum in Eindhoven. The period of the so-called ‘new building’, with such prominent figures as Rietveld Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, evolved around an architecture which took the critical issue of the living environment as a starting point...

THE NEURASTHENIC

Hubert Marécaille
On learning that cancer can be hereditary, and immediately persuaded to have a strong risk due to his familyʼs history, an unemployed person consults a medium, who, pessimistic about its future, suddenly puts in doubt all his efforts to fit into society : his life then seems invain and useless, at the thought of his approaching death constantly on his mind...  ...

RADOUB TEASER

Claude Cattelain
The water level varies and the bins in the hangar move up and down....

RELOCATION

Pieter Geenen
Situated at the point where four countries meet (Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan and Armenia), mount Ararat is Armenia’s most important national symbol, full of mythological meaning and believed to be the place where Noah’s Ark stranded. Once part of a larger Armenia, mount Ararat is now located in Turkey...

REPÉRAGE

Herman Asselberghs
Why not remake 'Zabriskie Point'? Michelangelo Antonioni's early seventies film was about contemporary America seen from a distance. ‘Moi, j’ai regardé l’Amérique telle qu’elle m’est apparue, sans savoir ce qu’elle est,’ the Italian director stated, philosophically downplaying his thorough research into late sixties U.S. turmoil...

THE TREE

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is attached to a tree with a string. He starts to move, jumping up and down until the string breaks. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 1...

HEAD WITH THE CATS

Messieurs Delmotte
Monsieur Delmotte stand in a garden and puts two kittens on his head. Each time they fall, climb or jump down, Monsieur Delmotte repeats his action. This work is part of the series Unidentified Emoticon...

LE ROBOT

Jacques Louis Nyst
The robot in 'Le Robot’ is as a matter of fact a broken spring from the Nysts’ bed. Here it appears as a giant that a hand attempts to flatten, but ends up releasing. As the “robot” breaks free, we hear a bird singing. 'Le Robot’ is one of Jacques-Louis Nyst’s earlier experiences with the medium...

MY HOME IS ON THE OTHER SIDE

Yun Tien
I’m in contact with my family through the screen of my computer, even tough we are on opposite sides of the globe we share a moment together. Where is home? Here or there? I interview other people with a similar background. We talk about the reasons we left our homeland to seek a new life in Belgium. What will happen if I stay in Belgium? Will it become a new ‘home’? ...

LE PLEIN DU VIDE

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière
The Beaubourg neighbourhood in Paris is completely abandoned by its inhabitants. Has the plague struck? Perhaps we are quite simply in the month of August, when Parisians have all gone on holiday? A void...