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.

>Erin Cosgrove

The Baader-Meinhof Affair, 2002

Book, 17.1 x 10.8 cm, 245 p, language: English, publisher: New York : Printed Matter, Inc., ISBN: 0-8943901-0-4.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2025/473).

Literary synopsis

Erin Cosgrove takes the romance novel for a ride through revolutionary terrain to produce a tempestuous tale of terrorism and true love. In the cloistered environment of an exclusive East Coast college, the young and the restless fall in love while romancing the ghosts of the Baader-Meinhof gang active in 1970s Germany. It’s a hilarious send up of the romance genre complete with earnest interjections from the author who supplies historical cliff notes and commentary for the confused. A page-turning tour de force of the dangerous passions and politics of the privileged.

Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice

Erin Cosgrove is interested in engaging complex moral, political content. To this end her work has three constants: an excess of content, multiple layers and access points to the content, and satire. The strategy is to create art that is pointed in its subject matter without being a bumper sticker. Cosgrove may use books, videos, drawings, paintings and installation in a single project. Multiple mediums can sustain a narrative playfully—relaying meaning without being didactic or shallow. She hopes that her work is also a proposal for accessible artwork that is subversive and seductive.

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>2004 Inkjet and Graphite on Paper 32 x 44 inches

>2004 Inkjet and Graphite on Paper

>2004 Inkjet and Graphite on Paper

>2004, live action and animated video, (7 minutes)

>2004, live action and animated video, (7 minutes)

>2004, live action and animated video, (7 minutes)

Artist

> Erin Cosgrove .

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.

> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). Fabra i Coats - Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.

> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.

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