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: Jim Shaw - The Wig Museum

Further on in the exhibition is The Wig Museum, which emerged from a dream Shaw had in 1999: strolling through the streets of Tijuana in search of a hotdog, he came upon the entrance to a wig museum, where a man accosted him and introduced himself as the institution’s curator. It was not until much later, in 2017, that he turned his dream into reality and created The Wig Museum, a theatrical landscape that viewers can walk through, described by the artist as a gateway to a “shopping mall in hell”. The installation sees Shaw bring his fascination with hair — whether artificial (wigs) or natural — to a climax. Hair as a sculptural mass, inclined to express the wildest ambitions of the powerful of this world — take, for example, the hairdo of an 18th century French aristocrat or the somewhat extravagant hairstyles characterisitc of most contemporary populist leaders.

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