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: Pocahontas and the Little Carpenter in London

Matt's Gallery, London

10 October 1988 - 19 October 1988

©Matt's Gallery, London / Jimmie Durham

“The story of Pocahontas as written by her husband John Rolfe was taken whole-cloth from a book by Richard Hakluyt, published in London in 1603. Hakluyt’s book, however, told the story with a heroic crusader captain and a beautiful Arab princess as the two characters. Hakluyt himself moved to Virginia later on, and Rolfe may have known him there. The story in both books is about an English captain whose life is saved by the princess, but in Rolfe’s version the captain was John Smith. The myth of Pocahontas and John Smith became an important operant in the construction of America, and had its counterparts all over the hemisphere. In Brazil the story is told about a woman named Iracema; in Mexico, Malinche.”

Read Durham’s full text in the exhibition folder bellow.

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>handmade design by the artist

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WorksShow artists

> Jimmie Durham, Pocahontas' Underwear, 1985. Object, feathers, beads, fabric, fasteners, 31 x 25 cm.

> Jimmie Durham, Element from The Little Carpenter, 1987. Sculpture, snakeskin, paint, 21 x 150 cm.

> Jimmie Durham, The Two Johns, 1988. Sculpture, wood, paint, 54 x 61 x 6 cm.

> Jimmie Durham, La Malinche, 1988-1991. Sculpture, wood, cotton, snakeskin, watercolour, polyester, metal, 168 x 56 x 84 cm.

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