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.

A Stone from Metternich's House in Bohemia, 1996

Video, 00:00:30.

image: © Marco Fedele di Catrano

Collection: Courtesy of Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin.

"I went to an old monastery in Plasy, Bohemia (Czech Republic) to establish a pole for the center of the world. Metternich, the German who had become foreign minister of Austria in 1809, had bought the monastery and made it into one of his summer house. Metternich once said that asia begins at the Landgasse in Vienna.

I brought a stone from the monastery to Vienna, to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s house. Metternich wanted Austria to save Europe (from the free-thinking French revolution) so he had to put a lot of people in stone dungeons below the beautiful buildings. Their screams added nothing to the sounds of the violins above." [full text here]

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Artists

> Jimmie Durham.

> Maria Thereza Alves.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - Der Verführer und der Steinerne Gast [The Libertine and the Stone Guest]. Wittgenstein House, Vienna, 03 March 1996 - 30 April 1996.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.

> Ensemble: Performance, Video and Self-Portraits.

Related Items

>Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves, Collected Stones, 1995-2002.Video, dvd, 00:24:13.