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.

Ensemble: Fluid Body

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FLUID BODY

The fluidity of the body emerged as a notion after we saw the works by Vlad Monroe, Hugo Roelandt and Eleni Mylonas.

The body is fluid, rather than an entity with a concrete form and a stable meaning. The power of a body to transform as means of survival, communication, or even self-exploration is often forgotten because of chameleonic adaptation to social norms. Thus, when the body becomes a vehicle to implement state or religious power, acceptance of its changing nature is a de facto form of political dissent. Artists have embraced the body’s fluidity, often by applying that first on their own image, in order to bring themselves amidst the battlefield of identity politics, or simply for stepping into someone else’s shoes.

Monroe can be seen as the counterpart of Cindy Sherman; her identification focuses on the surface, his is one in which the subject takes over, as it would in icon painting. Roelandt modulated himself in a way that could be called hermaphroditic, if it were not more open than that; identity as a joyful vibration. Mylonas launches a dual investigation in the faces of Τahrir square protesters: by works inspired from images of their rough armor, published in the media coverage of the events and by trying to identify herself with them.

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Works

>Hugo Roelandt, Self-portrait, green version / Zelfportret, groene versie, 1973-1993.Collage, 104 x 90 cm, photo, aluminium.

>Hugo Roelandt, Geprojecteerde gevoelens tegenover iets of iemand [Projected Feelings Toward Something or Somebody], 1974.Photography, dia-projection , 80 x.

>Vladislav (Vlad) Mamyshev-Monroe , StarZ, 2005.Installation, photograph on canvas, paper, 10 x (320 x 237 cm), 3 x (75 x 75 cm), 20 x (76 x 60 cm), 20 x A2, 5 x A3, 244 x A4, 54 x A3, 135 x (15 x 20 cm).

>Eleni Mylonas, Box Man, 2011.Painting, oil, canvas, 107 x 76 cm.

>Eleni Mylonas, Untitled #2, 2013.Print, digital print on archival paper, 195 x 145 cm.