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.

Have you accepted that whatever seems to be is not, and that that which seems not to be is?, 1991

Photography

image: © M HKA, Verzameling Jan Meersman

Collection: Verzameling Jan Meersman.

This project, together with Madame visiting the National Garden Festival hoping to see the Princess, was commissioned for 'Edge 90', an exhibition of innovative and international visual art which took place in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and also in Glasgow and London, in 1990. 'Edge 90 was the second in a series of bi-annual exhibitions organised by the Edge Biennale Trust, commissioning new projects by artists working in installation, performance, sculpture, broadcast media and video. This project took place in the City of London - around the city's major financial institutions - in November, 1990. In both projects Ria Pacquée was in disguise and infiltrated real-life situations and her experiences were discreetly documented by a photographer.

The Character she used, 'It', was making its first appearance. "(...) In London I wanted to make a project that was a kind of pilgrimage, not to a place such as Lourdes, but in a part of the city where people pass close by each other, in a hurry, shopping or working. I had been thinking about the character for the project for a long time. 'It' had to be a person who could just as easily be a man or a woman – in fact, a neutral person. He or she is an outsider with some strange obsessions. The character is a solitary person, in a struggle with a world he cannot comprehend. When you first see him standing with the placard, you think he belongs to a sect, but he doesn't. His placard is a message without a message - a pseudo philosophical text – as so many things are pseudo. Both characters ('Madame' and 'It') are a game with real and unreal. I try to break through reality, with the street, kitsch and people as decor. Both persons are me and the world together."

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Artist

> Ria Pacquée.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: From Broodthaers to Braeckman – Photography in the Visual Arts in Belgium. M HKA, Antwerpen, 06 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.