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.

Drawings, Maps and Composite Actions: Goat Legend, 2001-2003

Installation, variable dimensions.

©image: M HKA

Collection: De Vleeshal Collection, Middelburg (The Netherlands).

With a lantern in hand, you are led over a disorienting circuit through a dark mountain landscape. Finally you come to a valley, where drawings are hanging. The drawings are shady, estranging and troubling.

This complete installation refers to the body, the horror-iconography and San Fernando Valley where Cameron Jamie grew up, and refers to haunted houses, or hell houses, places of refuge for those people whose lives are an even greater living hell. The represented figures seem to have changed to a zombie state; as though they have been awakened after death. The drawing style, applied collage technique and the use of human hair in some drawings make it seem as though the work was created in a near-ritualistic manner. The drawings comprise the sediment of Jamie’s’ performances of Goat, where he to the San Fernando Valley dressed as a vampire. With this special form of performance-documentation, Cameron Jamie succeeds in mythologizing Goat in his very own particular way.

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Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.

> Ensemble: SBKM - Stichting Beeldende Kunst Middelburg.

> Ensemble: internationaal & wereldwijd [international & worldwide].

> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.

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> Ensemble: Wild Walls.