OVERZICHT TITELS

OVER THE TOP

Justine Cappelle
We meet Floris in the empty and cold warehouse where he collects cardboard boxes and is organising them in a specific way. We discover the boxes start to form a pyramid. The boxes symbolise Floris’ ultimate desire: reaching the top. Literally the top since Floris wants to put his epitaph of mankind on top of the Gizeh pyramid...

AND

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 (Tourcoing, France, autumn 2004)...

BUSBY BERKELEY'S VILLAGE

Koen Theys
Busby Berkeley became famous as a director of Hollywood musicals in the 1920’s en ’30’s. He was often seen as the opposite of Fred Astaire because for him the individuality of his dancers was unimportant...

THE BENCH

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte is lying under a bench. Suddenly he rises, making the piece of garden furniture turn over. This work is part of the series Flying Chickens...

SPEECH ACT

Herman Asselberghs
Following up on his meticulous dissection of the Apple laptop (in Dear Steve), Herman Asselberghs now turns his attention to another global popular consumer product: Avatar, the most expensive and highest-grossing film ever. By way of an elaborated interior monologue taking on the form of a film studies class, Speech Act covers a complex of themes well beyond cinema concerns...

THE DOUBLE

Roy Villevoye - Jan Dietvorst
An exacting sculpture of a white, middle-aged male is hammered out. Voiceovers breathe life into the man whilst his appearance is accurately reconstructed. The empty shell becomes a personality thanks to the voices from the Netherlands and Papua, but who is this man really? The impression created and substantiated is simultaneously mysterious and revealing....

MENSEN EN EIEREN

Filip Francis
This video is a document on a performance carried out by Filip Francis and a bunch of people dressed in white. They start, at an accelerating speed, throwing eggs on a wall. The viewer doesn’t see the eggs getting smashed, but only hears the crushing sound....

ORIENTATION

Sirah Foighel Brutmann - Eitan Efrat
Looking at two locations— the public sculpture White Square commemorating the founders of Tel Aviv, and the shrine of Palestinian village Salame in today’s Israeli Kafar Shalem—Orientation focuses on the ability of architectural material, and of sound and image, to register collective experience. In 1989, the Israeli sculptor Dani Karavan, completed his sculpture White Square...

CONTAINER 03: DE PUNTZAK VAN HEINE

Jef Cornelis
“What is it with history: providence, coincidence, irony or fate?”. This is a quote from one of the letters that have been selected to be read out in the letter project ‘De Puntzak van Heine’. The project is extended through the medium of television, reflecting on a number of inherent questions...

23 STOREYS

Ilona Ruegg
'23 Storeys’ refers to the 23 levels of the Tour Centrale, also known as the 'Lotto Building’ in Brussels. At the time of the shooting, the building was completely empty. The camera first moves from the 5th level up the fire escape escape and then down from the 23rd floor through the empty corridors and rooms, always using the elevator from floor to floor, down to the 6th...