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.

Gianni Motti

Shock and Awe, 2003

Video, 00:29:41.

©Gianni Motti

Collection: Courtesy of the Artist.

Gianni Motti’s video work Shock and Awe appropriates an accidental live broadcast when President George W. Bush was about to announce to the American nation the commencement of war in Iraq as part of the wider ‘War on Terror’. The broadcast news channel EuroNews mistakenly aired the minutes proceeding the announcement, in which Bush is preparing, having his hair combed, rehearsing various serious and solemn facial expressions, then grinning at the people off-camera. His jovial and nonchalant attitude sits in stark contrast to the gravity of his actions, including the tenuity of his connecting of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime with the Taliban and Al-Qaida in Afghanistan, and the fact the war was undertaken under the false pretence of supposed weapons of mass destruction held by Iraq. In this broadcast, we witness inadvertently the media mask having slipped off the real face of George Bush.

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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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