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.

>Bert Danckaert

De extra's, 2013

Book, 20 x 12,5 cm, 117 p., language : Dutch, publisher : EPO, Berchem, ISBN : 978 94 91297 54 0.

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2027/667).

Literary synopsis

A photographer lands up on a film set in Bollywood. He wants to photograph décors as part of his PhD research in the arts. Posing as an extra, he infiltrates the set of “Tezz”, a romantic terrorist film. But nothing goes as the photographer had imagined. In amongst thirty other extras, he winds up on the least photogenic décor. During the long day’s shoot he enters various conversations about photography and society, with the overpopulated and poverty-stricken Mumbai and its Bollywood surrealism featuring as the backdrop.

Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice

The novel was one of the end results of the PhD in arts which Bert Danckaert defended in 2014. The Extras is about how doubt and incapacity drive the artistic process. It’s also a reflection on the oeuvre of photographers working along the boundaries between fiction and reality in a globalized world in which it’s increasingly difficult to take a clear position (or photographic point of view).

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>Part of the series ‘Simple Present’, archival pigment print on fine art paper, 58 x 39 cm, mat, frame 80 x 60 cm, powder coated frame, museum glass), 2008.

>Part of the series ‘Simple Present’, archival pigment print on fine art paper, 58 x 39 cm, mat, frame 80 x 60 cm, powder coated frame, museum glass), 2010.

>Part of the series ‘Simple Present’, archival pigment print on fine art paper, 58 x 39 cm, mat, frame 80 x 60 cm, powder coated frame, museum glass), 2010.

>Part of the series ‘Simple Present’, archival pigment print on fine art paper, 58 x 39 cm, mat, frame 80 x 60 cm, powder coated frame, museum glass), 2011.

>Part of the series ‘Simple Present’, archival pigment print on fine art paper, 58 x 39 cm, mat, frame 80 x 60 cm, powder coated frame, museum glass), 2013.

Artist

> Bert Danckaert.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.

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