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.

>JUHA PEKKA MATIAS LAAKKONEN

Walking from Yakutsk to Helsinki in 5.3 Million Steps, 2009

Object, 35 x 28 x 24 cm.

©image: Terje Östling

Collection: Courtesy of the artist.

For this work Laakkonen spent 176 days walking in and around the city of Yakutsk in eastern Siberia. This is also the number of verses in Genesis from the Creation to the Great Flood. The number of steps given in the title would have taken him all the way back to his native Helsinki, but it also referred to the size of Finland’s population. Throughout the entire performance, in temperatures varying from –50° to +40°, Laakkonen wore the same pair of reindeer hide boots, which he had made for himself and which wore out in the process. (AK)

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Artist

> JUHA PEKKA MATIAS LAAKKONEN.

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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