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.

Green, 2016

Book, 11 x 17,5 cm, 180 p., language : English, publisher : Publication Studio Rotterdam, ISBN : 978-94-92308-06-1.

Publication Studio Rotterdam

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2028/374).

Literary synopsis

In a series of distinctly filmic and culturally ambiguous settings the reader is introduced to Albert Green, his childhood, the dress that catalyzes his gender expression, and the cast of characters that engage Green in their fetishistic desires.

Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice

Green is the second episode of a novel trilogy – Orchestrating the Borrowed, in which the worlds of artist's autobiography are explored and the concept of borrowed identity is examined. The trilogy contains Brown, Green and White.

In Green Hou tenderly and jauntily entwines harsh realities with unique human insights, effected by the experience of growing up differently. The second in a series of three fictive-autobiographies, Green was written while Hou was living the life of Albert Green, his novel's transgendered protagonist. Green (and the entire trilogy) is very much a work that is both literary and artistic. For it transpires social issues by writing text, and creating visual works, that respond to the researched subjects.

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>(2016) Photograph on banner

>(2016) Existing books with replaced-page

>(2016) Detail

>(2016) Photoshoped passport photos made into books

>(2016) Inkjet & pencil on paper

Artist

> Hou Chien Cheng.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.