{"id":14882,"title":"Morele Herbewapening/Moral Rearmament","dimensions":"variable dimensions","date_begin":"1996-01-01","material":"mixed media","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the artist","cached_tag_list":"AMVK","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"morele-herbewapening-moral-rearmament-the-installation","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/037/915/large/mh2_kl.jpg?1509110336","poster_credits":"(c)image: AMVK","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;The entrance door of the exhibition space is divided in dark and bright: up to you to make the choice.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy concept was:\u0026nbsp; the Kunsthalle Lophem is a giant head divided in 2, the subconscious and the conscious. Behind the middle, on the floor, 12 plexiglass mirrors of 1 by 2 meters, lying there as an ego, special self-reflection.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe installation consisted of a computer animated large screen projection in opposite to the bright side which was partly occupied by a 30 meter iron strip on which 96 magnetic plexiglass and polystyrene plates.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 30 meter iron strip is made of 12 separate iron plates.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI show 96 women images that are items out of my databank; I connected them with words of texts on the capacity of internal self-organization,\u0026nbsp; on thermodynamics,\u0026nbsp; on order in systems in a state of non-equilibrium, on connectionistic networks and on representation of concepts and associations in general.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe women associated were 1. showing their breasts while looking in the spectator\u0026rsquo;s eyes (36), 2. completely nude except for a belt (29), 3. about to take of their knickers (15), 4. touching breast and sex simultaneously (4), 5. in various states of undress (9), 6. with dress wide open like a butterfly (3).\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBehind the mirror, on a black and white stapled floor ( freemasonry), 3 monitors, the dissection of a man\u0026rsquo;s conversation on easy making money. Title: \u0026ldquo;Il faut convaincre les investisseurs \u0026ldquo;, the first sentence of the actual discussion.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe installation is dedicated to Baubo, obscene goddess of the past, looking through her nipples, talking with the vulva, dancing in such a dirty way that all melancholic and depressed women were filled with joy again.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI thought: let\u0026rsquo;s make an installation to fill everybody, men and women, with joy again, and this by redefining a lot of heavy-duty words, giving people an agreable mental massage.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen leaving the space you come across a small TV-clock with a black and white reminder, an after-image of what\u0026rsquo;s been shown in the dark.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1472,"name":"Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}