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.

Hänzel & Gretzel

Hamletmachine, 1998

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©Hänzel & Gretzel, 1998

Collection: Courtesy of Argos, Brussels .

Hamletmachine is a score for three monitors hanging from the ceiling, inspired by the enigmatic play of the same name by German playwright Heiner Müller, a postmodern reinterpretation of Shakepeare’s Hamlet. Combining video and music, Hamletmachine interprets Hamlet’s descent into psychosis and displays of
violence, through graphic effects, animation and montages, accompanied by a soundtrack from the Antwerp band Dead Man Ray. The artist had a particular interest in the surreal and the absurd, which translated succinctly for the new graphic and editing technology of the 1990s. The unstable and sensory relationship of sound
and image in Hamletmachine in particular, which run independently of each other, sees the work constantly changing, opening the space for interpretation that Hänzel & Gretzel sought.

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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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