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.

>NASTIO MOSQUITO

3 Continents, 2010

Video, 00:07:45.

©image: Nástio Mosquito

Collection: Courtesy of the artist.

The video 3 Continents presents Mosquito delivering three consecutive speeches addressing the three continents of the title, each time with a homespun map of each place attached to a wall in the background. The delivery of the speeches are through an adopted persona that possesses a sort of confident naivety, pronouncing that he has “bought Europe” or “bought the US of A”, and then ending somewhat comically by giving up prematurely on the last speech, saying dismissively “fuck Africa”. The work offers a surreal reversal of the hegemonic gaze and its lingering imperialistic legacy towards the non-western world, in a way that is darkly ironic, funny and playfully confounding. (NH)

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> NASTIO MOSQUITO.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Don't You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics. M HKA, Antwerp, 13 June 2014 - 14 September 2014.

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