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.

>Stephen Willats

Contained Reality and Hidden Pressures, 1979

Mixed Media, 4 panels, each 148.5 x 33.5 cm .

©image: M HKA

Collection: Van Abbemuseum, The Netherlands.

Two works made in Eindhoven in 1979 also focus on public housing. Inside the Space We Have Been Given features Ms De Vogel and Ms Pannekoek, housing officers for the city’s Central Housing Administration, while Contained Reality and Hidden Pressure revolves around the huismeester (janitor) in a block of flats in Woensel. These are all trapped in their roles as service providers. Willats writes: ‘One of the most powerful mecha-nisms that shape the world in which we live is the low-level decision-making procedures of institutions established by society to maintain its own fabric.’

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> Stephen Willats.

Stephen Willats wrote already in 1964 that he is ‘concerned with the problem of society and the personality of the individual, particul

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: The Welfare State. M HKA, Antwerpen, 29 May 2015 - 27 September 2015.

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