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.

Cidade Dormitório, 2007

Installation

©image: M HKA/CC

The work with which Ferraz is most strongly associated was conceived specifically for the blind wall of the A Gentil Carioca art space in downtown Rio: the Cidade Dormitório or “dormitory city,” a huge, eight-tiered bunk bed that was actually used for sleeping by some of the neighborhood’s homeless people when it was installed there in 2007.

This “sculpture” was brought to Antwerp and is installed outside the museum (see groundplan), inevitably rendered dysfunctional by Belgium’s decidedly untropical climate.

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Media

>Guga Ferraz talks about Cidade Dormitório [video]

>Cidade Dormitorio in Antwerp

>Cidade Dormitório in Antwerp 2

>Cidade Dormitório in Antwerp 3

Artist

> Guga Ferraz.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: A RUA/DE STRAAT – Europalia.Brasil. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 October 2011 - 22 January 2012.