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.

Welcome to the Wadsworth, 2001-2003

Video, 00:25:00.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK7581_M369).

The video Welcome to the Wadsworth: A Museum Tour documents a tour Fraser gave in April 1991 on behalf of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. Rather than offering a typical guided tour through the galleries of one of the oldest museums in the United States, Fraser takes the audience outside, to discuss the history of the museum, the city, and the state. In doing so, she draws attention to the relationship of Wadsworth with Hartford’s colonial past, exposing the conditions that have made Connecticut one of the us’s most segregated states. Although the tour seems to skip from one subject to another, Fraser follows a fixed script based on her extensive research into the way in which museums present themselves in annual reports, educational brochures and flyers, and on material from the municipal archives. The performance’s absurdity and humour only enhance the effect of the crystal-clear, critical mirror that Fraser holds up to the museum.

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> Andrea Fraser.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

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

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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.

> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.

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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Andrea Fraser.