COLLECTION

Puerto y barco, 2007, Angel Vergara Santiago © the artist

PUERTO Y BARCO

Angel Vergara
The seaside and the entrance of Castelló’s harbor are shown. While Vergara is delineating the cinematic image with a brush, a ship approaches the harbor. Here, Vergara uses different types of brushes. While the ship is passing by, the camera turns with the ship in the direction of the harbour itself...

Inventur / Invocation. I have read ... , 2008, Ralo Mayer © the artist

INVENTUR / INVOCATION. I HAVE READ ...

Ralo Mayer
From science-fiction novels to scientific articles, wikipedia entries to bank statements, billboards to poetry, Mayer blends the personal with the impersonal. Pre-existing associations with the word ’read’ and the process of reading are questioned when the verb is combined with unexpected ’texts’ – concrete, a face, a body...

I LIKE DENDERMONDE, DENDERMONDE LIKES ME

Emilio López-Menchero
The director of SMAK Philippe Van Cauteren invited Emilio López-Menchero to do a performance at the occasion of the opening of the exhibition Solo Quint 3 organized by SMAK at Sint Blasius hospital and SMAK. The challenge was to question the intervention organized by the SMAK, a contemporary art museum, in Sint Blasius, a running hospital...

Y’A RIEN À VOIR

Laurent d'Ursel
The work of Laurent d’Ursel might be considered a metonymy of art history, an amalgam of references from the domains of literature, painting and all the crossbreeds and the iconoclasts from the past century. Diverting linguistic elements into objects he strengthens the ties between literature and visual arts...

BEING FUCKED UP

Emily Vey Duke - Cooper Battersby
Being Fucked Up is a collection of nine short works about ego, happiness and holding on. It combines low-tech animation, performance, and beautifully written monologues to create a piece that is funny, intelligent, and above all human....

MOSCOW X

Ken Kobland
A camcorder diary and chronicle of public opinion filmed in Moscow during the fall of 1990, a time of huge political an economic changes in the former Soviet Union. The tape reveals Kobland’s own fascination with the diversity and complexity of the Russian’s reactions to such changes...

VIDÉO À LA CHAÎNE II - MEDICO

Michel Bonnemaison - Joëlle de La Casinière - Jacques Lederlin - Enrique Ahriman
A female representative tells the story of the founder of ’techni medico’. Images of a bald man and a cat scan of a human brain rotate on the screen, along with the random TV images that Bonnemaison and de la Casinière regularly use in the series ’Video à la chaîne’....

DISALLOW

Vito Acconci - New Humans
"Disallow is an art-record presenting the recording of a collaborative performance by poet-artist-architect Vito Acconci and New York group New Humans. Taking place within the sculpture installation Disassociate by artist Mika Tajima at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, the release also includes the complete aural components that were present during the exhibition and live performances...

ROLAND VAN DEN BERGHE

An interview with Belgian visual artist Roland Van Den Berghe, as part of the exhibition ‘Free as the Air and Function’. Van den Berghe, wearing a Queen Fabiola mask, discusses the way icons and doctrines are created in an artificial way and the role art plays to break through these straitjackets...

UNDER THE CARS

Messieurs Delmotte
Messieurs Delmotte has his very own technique for crossing parking lots....