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.

>Slavs and Tatars

Mother Tongues and Father Throats, 2012

Other, 500 x 300 x 3 cm.

© Slavs and Tatars. Photo: Wim Van Eesbeek

Collection: Courtesy the artists and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin.

Mother Tongues and Father Throats turns to the throat as a source of mystical language – as opposed to the tongue’s more profane, transactional role. A diagram typically used as a language teaching aid is presented on a carpet showing letters of the Arabic alphabet along with the corresponding part of the mouth used to pronounce these letters. Here, alongside the Arabic letter ‘qaaf’ situated here at the back of the throat, the artists have added the letters for guttural phonemes [gh] and [kh] in Cyrillic and Hebrew as a nod to these letters’ importance across disparate fields such as Russian futurism, Kabbalist gematria and Sufi exegesis.

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Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: EURASIA − A Landscape of Mutability. M HKA, Antwerp, 08 October 2021 - 23 January 2022.

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