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.

>Q.S. Serafijn

Joe of de Kunst van het Wandelen, 2006

Book, 20 x 13 cm, 47 p, language: Dutch, publisher: Bleiswijk:Studio 3005/Proba 0005 ISBN: 90 78627 02 6.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2025/468).

Literary synopsis

In the summer of 2006, Q.S. Serafijn stays for a long weekend in Hotel De Wageningse Berg to prepare his contribution to The Art of Ambling/ Elfbergenpad. That summer, the hotel has a number of weekend packages on offer, such as the Happy go Lucky Arrangement and – in the context of four hundred years of relations between the Netherlands and Australia – the Australia Arrangement. Serafijn opts for the Australia Arrangement. Aside from a dinner and two breakfasts with an Australian twist, a surprise awaits Serafijn in the hotel room. That surprise turns out to be a more than two meters tall living kangaroo, a companion kangaroo. Initially quite displeased with the unsolicited presence of the beast, Q.S. eventually decides to walk along the Elfbergenpad in the company of Joe. During the walk, they discuss things like the Dutch light, the sense and nonsense of art, the importance of ecology and the kangaroo policy in Australia. At the end of the walk, an unexpected finale awaits the two hikers. Come and be seduced by the adventures and elegance of the conversations in Joe Or The Art of Ambling.

Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice

Joe Or The Art of Ambling is part of the project The Art of Ambling/Elfbergenpad. The stories and soundworks of this project are meant to add an extra dimension when walking through the landscape of the South Veluwe. Participants: Æ Kliest & Jan Goorissen; Q.S. Serafijn & Spinvis; Dirk van Weelden & Cilia Erens; Rosanne van Klaveren & Hooykaas/Stansfield; Armeno Alberts & Yvonne Dröge Wendel. The Art of Ambling/Elfbergenpad is a project of the Wolf Foundation and was realised in cooperation with the CBK Gelderland, the Veluwe Office of Tourism and Region VVV VeluweValley. The project is funded by the Province of Gelderland (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Culture), the municipalities of Ede, Wageningen and Renkum. The publication Joe Or The Art of Ambling is a private edition that accompanies the Daytrip B in the series Het Elfbergenpad, which also contains the CD with the sound work of Het Hertenkoor … (een wandel sprookje) /The Deer Choir … (a walking tale by Spinvis.

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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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