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.

Exhibition: Chantal Akerman – Too Far, Too Close

M HKA, Antwerpen

10 February 2012 - 10 June 2012

©photo: Chantal Akerman

The M HKA organized the very first major European retrospective of Chantal Akerman (°1950 - †2015), artist and one of the most influential filmmakers of her generation. 

Besides her monumental reputation in the field of feminist and film critique, Akerman played a crucial role in the gradual merger between 'conventional' cinema and installation art that is akin to the moving image. Since the early 90s, Akerman alternated between both areas: mainstream or arthouse films, such as A Couch in New York (1996) and La Captive (2000), on the one hand, and experimental quasi-documentaries like Là-bas (2006) or video installations like D'Est (1993), on the other.

The significance of Akerman's work is not only formal, but also closely linked to its programmatic research on biography, gender, identity and memory - all framed in a ground-breaking exploration of modest aesthetics of everyday life

Chantal Akerman. Too Far, Too Close highlighted the many stresses in her multifaceted work. The exhibition spanned a forty-year career in film and related media, starting with the timeless declaration of intent Saute ma ville (1968) and concluding with Maniac Summer, an installation dating from 2009. She brought a balanced mix of straightforward experimental film work, such as Hotel Monterey (1972) or La Chambre (1972) and more complex, ambitious installations, such as Marcher à côté de ses lacets dans une frigidaire vide (2004) or the emblematic D’Est (1993). 
 

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WorksShow artists

> Chantal Akerman, Saute Ma Ville [Blow Up My Town], 1968. Film, 16 mm film transferred to dvd, black & white, 00:13:00.

> Chantal Akerman, Hotel Monterey, 1972. Film, 16 mm film transferred to dvd, colour, 00:65:00.

> Chantal Akerman, La Chambre [The Room], 1972-2012. Series, 16 mm film transferred to dvd, colour, 00:11:00.

> Chantal Akerman, D'est, au bord de la fiction [From the East: bordering on fiction], 1995. Installation, 25 monitors, colour, sound, 48 speakers, 01:47:00.

> Chantal Akerman, Chantal Akerman par Chantal Akerman, 1997. Film, video, colour, 00:17:00.

> Chantal Akerman, De l'autre côté: Une voix dans le désert [From the other side: A voice in the desert], 2002. Installation, single-channel video projection, colour, sound, 2 speakers, 00:52:00.

> Chantal Akerman, Marcher à côté de ses lacets dans un frigidaire vide, 2004. Installation.

> Chantal Akerman, Tombée de nuit sur Shanghai, 2007. Installation, single-channel video projection, colour, sound, 00:60:00.

> Chantal Akerman, Femmes d'Anvers en Novembre [Women from Antwerp in November], 2008. Installation, 2 video projections, silent, colour, 2 x (00:20:00).

> Chantal Akerman, Maniac Summer, 2009. Installation, 4 video projections, colour & black/white, sound, 00:32:00, 00:34:00.

> Chantal Akerman, Chantal Akerman 'Too Far, Too Close', 2012. Book, ink, paper, 26.4 x 22 cm, 110 p., language : English, publisher : Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, ISBN : 9789461300447.

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