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.

>Jimmie Durham

Pocahontas' Underwear, 1985

Object, 31 x 25 cm.

image: © Maria Thereza Alves

Collection: Private Collection, Belgium.

"Every place I go in Europe, the children like me, and to be nice to me they give me drawings of Pocahontas because they have just seen the movie. And I don’t like the movie Pocahontas. It is very much against me. It’s a movie that denies my history in very urgent ways, but it’s also a movie that continues to implant a Hollywood definition of me that is so strong nowadays that I can’t address the issue.

I cannot go to every art opening in Italy and once more explain that not all Indians are from New Mexico, that some Indians have blue eyes and a thousand other stories. I can’t defend a reality that everyone knows is not the reality because everyone knows that the Hollywood reality is the reality." [full text here]

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Artist

> Jimmie Durham.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.

> Exhibition: Pocahontas and the Little Carpenter in London. Matt's Gallery, London, 10 October 1988 - 19 October 1988.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1980 - 1993.

> Ensemble: Objects.

Related Items

>Jimmie Durham, On Loan From the Museum of the American Indian, 1985.Installation, mixed media, variable dimensions.

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