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.

>James Lee Byars

The Perfect Kiss, Antwerp 1976, 1976

Other, 29.5 x 21 cm.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA / Collection Flemish Community.

"Leo Dohmen had a – well, is it art deco or Jugendstil? – house in Berchem. That house is still there. Byars wanted to do something there because it was still an original Jugendstil decor, the walls and everything. I think twenty people turned up. The Perfect Kiss. That was just James standing on a small shelf. [...] Those were things that he did here and there, that was not a one-off thing. It is perhaps the shortest statement he made: standing on a podium and moving his lips for a moment, barely visible.

Source: unpublished interview with Patrick Verelst.

"Patrick Verhelst performed The Perfect Kiss at Leo Dohmen, Generaal van Merlenstraat 44, in that Art Nouveau quarter in Antwerp, close to the Cogels-Osylei: there is a kind of diamond-shaped square, the four houses are the four seasons and one of the four was inhabited by Leo Dohmen. That interior was beautifully preserved. Byars must have found that wonderful. One performance was organised in 1976. The first Perfect Kiss was in 1974, but after that he still performed it."

Source: unpublished interview with Yves Gevaert

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> James Lee Byars.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: James Lee Byars: The Perfect Kiss. M HKA, Antwerpen, 05 October 2018 - 20 January 2019.

> Ensemble: Chapter 6: Perfect Death, 1974–1997, Brussels-Amsterdam-Antwerp-Cologne-Caïro / Hoofdstuk 6: Perfecte dood / Chapitre 6: Mort parfaite.

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