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.

>Karpo Godina

Litany of Happy People, 1971

Film, 00:14:00.

Collection: Courtesy of the artist.

In Litany of Happy People, a series of static shots portray villagers in Vojvodina, part of the former Yugoslavia, where many different national groups (Serbs, Croats, Hungarians, Slovaks, Romanians, Macedonians, Russians, Germans, Roma and many others) have painted their homes a specific colour to signal their ethnicity. A joyful song plays on the soundtrack, exclaiming a love for the various communities of the town. The beautiful ethnographic imagery together with the repetitive declaration of love makes for a sympathetic, if decidedly ambiguous, portrait. The authorities at the time were also in doubt, and the film was banned due its perceived ironic stance towards the principle of ‘Socialist Brotherhood and Unity’.

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> Karpo Godina.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Meeting Points 7 – Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 October 2013 - 16 February 2014.

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