Juan Downey Chili/USA
About Cages 1987
Fragments from the diary of Anna Frank and excerpts from the confessions of a Chilean torturer are coming from the loudspeakers. A monitor shows a bird nervously hopping up and down. A poignant work on captivity, power and powerlessness.

Marie-France Giraudon & Emmanuel Avenel Canada
Vumbuludéo 2003
A videographic trance that takes us on a voyage into the Cosmic Consciousness, evoked by images and sounds, going beyond their meaning, form or spatial arrangement in the installation. An attempt to share the magical experience of the ancestral bond of mankind with the universe, with nature.

Gúsztáv Hámos Hongarije / BRD
The Hammer on the Anvil 1992
One of the first interactive installations. Hámos uses the monitor as metaphor. et me out!

Komiko Kushiyama Japan
Shelf 1991
The light of the monitor forms the basis for a meditative environment.

Nalini Malani India
Remembering Toba Tek Singh 1998
Malani was born in Karachi (now Pakistan) and lives in Bombay (India). The tense political situation between these two nations is the theme of this installation, that was 'inspired' by India's controversial nuclear tests.

Rita Myers USA
Resurrection Body 1993
A meditation on the dying, dreaming body. A naked man lies on a bed. Over his body a large tree is suspended, its roots almost touching him. Various sensors on the actor's body control 15 small monitors that display either an ECG, or portraits of mostly deceased members of the artist's family.

Ivan Esquivel Naito Peru
Video 2001-2003
An analytical comment on the incorporation of media art in contemporary museum culture.

Tony Oursler USA
Crypt Craft 1989
Crypt Craft is a gateway – a place of transformation. This is where we see the results of the urge to re-use corpses. Nostalgia is heavy on the air, an oppressive sound evokes ritualized emotions: the desire to breathe new life into lost objects.

Keith Piper Malta / Groot-Brittannië
Another Step in the Arena 1992
Piper uses the metaphor of a boxer in order to describe the identity of 'black' culture in a transcultural, western society.

Anne Quirijnen, Peter Missotten & Annemarie Lambrechts België
Everything will be allright 1997
Six projections on transparent screens, reminiscent of fish tanks. In a choreography by William Forsythe, sleeping people float under water sometimes shocked into violent motion by unknown causes. The custodian in the corner endlessly reassures us in very slow words: 'Everything will be allright'.

Francisco Ruiz de Infante Spanje / Frankrijk
Rain Machine – being tested 1997
A poetic installation that explores the boundaries of the subconscious. The visitor has to balance between construction and destruction.

Francesc Torres Spanje / USA
Silk Stockings 1993
This complex installation shows 20th century ideologies, from the utopian revolutions – like the Russian one from 1917 – to the end of the Cold War. Torres does not simplify history but encourages the visitors to take their own political stand.

Minette Vári Zuid-Afrika
Chimera 2001
In 1949 the 'Voortrekker Monument' was built in Pretoria as a symbol of 'Afrikaans' nationalism. On semi-transparent screens a procession of human and animal mutations goes by, like in a dream. Vári's installation deals with how history is written, with remembrance and with the complex contradictions in post-Apartheid South Africa.

Jian Wei Wang China
Ying Bi: Ping Feng / Screen: Screen 2000 The space is divided by a free- standing wall covered with roof tiles. This 'screen' is a reference to a traditional Chinese Ying Bi, a visual concealing device placed in front of a door or entrance. A screen both divides a space and links its separate sections. Various projections show the different worlds of traditional and modern China.