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.

Gillian Wearing

Dancing in Peckham, 1994

Video, 00:25:00.

©Gillian Wearing

Collection: Courtesy of the Artist.

Wearings's video Dancing in Peckham portrays the artist dancing inside a shopping centre in South London. Shoppers walk by, some bemused and others indifferent,
as she sways amateurishly to the sounds of music tracks she imagines in her head. Wearing was inspired by a woman she saw dancing wildly at the Royal Festival
Hall in London, oblivious to other people ridiculing her. “This woman caught my eye. She was completely separate. She was dancing not in synch with the music at
all. She was caught in the moment”, the artist recollected. Wearing was intrigued by someone behaving in a public place as they might in the privacy of home. Dancing in Peckham is a portrait of sorts of this person, for which Wearing practiced in advance by dancing to some of her favourite music, including Queen, Gloria Gaynor
and Nirvana. Yet, it might by turn also be considered a portrait of the artist herself that pre-empted the way social media is used today.

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> Exhibition: Lenin was a Mushroom - Moving Images in the 1990s. M HKA, Antwerpen, 03 June 2022 - 21 August 2022.

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