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.

>The Otolith Group

Hydra Decapita , 2010

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©The Otolith Group

Collection: Courtesy of The Otolith Group and LUX, London .

The film Hydra Decapita, 2010, is located within the domain of Drexciya, the Detroit techno duo who imagined a sub-aquatic fictional nation of Drexciya in the Atlantic, populated by the unborn children of pregnant women thrown overboard during the ‘Middle Passage’ journey of slave ships. Hydra Decapita depicts the dark ocean, overlaid with electronic music and vocals sung by Sagar. This ‘liquidity’ possesses a duality, evoking both the historic trade in humans across the oceans, as well as the abstraction of the present-day system of financial capital. Hydra Decapita contemplates the complex relations between power, death, language, global capitalism and abstraction, prompting us to imagine alternative possibilities for societies.

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> The Otolith Group.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Energy Flash – The Rave Movement. M HKA, Antwerpen, 17 June 2016 - 25 September 2016.

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