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.

>Stefanos Tsivopoulos

Land, 2006

Installation, 00:08:00.

©image: National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens

Collection: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (Inv. no. 603/08).

In Stefanos Tsivopoulos’ Land, the viewer watches three men of different nationalities who wake up on a rocky beach. Like castaways, they begin to wonder out loud, each in his own language, about the land in which they ended up stranded. The camera is gradually revealing parts of this land to eventually disclose, unexpectedly, to the viewer that this place is in fact an uninhabitable desert island. Its only three non-indigenous inhabitants are attempting to describe it notionally with their questions: “What is the name of this place? Who owns this place? Can this territory be defined topographically and geographically or is it like a vacuum?”. Being something between a tragicomic episode and a philosophical video essay on the notional qualities of a place, Land reframes important timeless questions about territory, borders and population shifts.

- Stamatis Schizakis, EMST

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> Stefanos Tsivopoulos.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.

> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens, Part II: Interpersonal Space / Beyond Knowledge. M HKA, Antwerp, 01 July 2017 - 03 September 2017.

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> Ensemble: Interpersonal Space.

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