M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Une machine désire de l'instruction comme un jardin désire de la discipline, 1996

Installation, Variable dimensions.

image© Frédéric Lefever

Collection: Collection Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon.

In 1996, these two pieces of weaving tools where shown at the exhibition La porte de l'Europe (les bourgeois de Calais). Calais is a place where lace has traditionally been produced since the nineteenth century through a system of punch cards with patterned holes instructing a sequence of operations.

The text hanging above the pieces gives an extra dimension to the concept of this artwork, comparing the automatism of the binary lace-making machines (perhaps the forefather of the computer) with the orderly jardin à la française.

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Artist

> Jimmie Durham.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: La porte de l'Europe (les bourgeois de Calais). Galerie de l'Ancienne Poste, Calais, 09 March 1996 - 28 April 1996.

> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.

> Ensemble: Objects.