Mobile Medium University Revisited (floating U.I.A.), 1972-1982
Mixed Media, 110 x 60 x 25 cm.
©image: Jan Kempenaers
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp, Bruikleen UA, Universiteit Antwerpen (Inv. no. S0114).
Mobile Medium University (Floating U.I.A) is one of Deleu’s first architectural proposals (1972; M HKA has the ‘revisited’ version, 1982). The idea was to use three brightly painted aircraft carriers (this was the time of the Vietnam War) for a perpetual tour of Antwerp University College’s entire activities. This theme of mobility and displacement is present in Deleu’s Proposals (1972–1980), four of which are now in the M HKA collection. The series formulates outlandish but credible anarchic approaches to issues still waiting to be addressed, such as the environment (e.g. city agriculture), the social contract (e.g. non-programmed TV broadcasts) or public memory (e.g. re-cycling historical monuments as social housing).
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> Luc Deleu.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Geel – Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna. Stad Geel, Geel, 15 September 2018 - 04 November 2018.
> Exhibition: The Collection. M HKA, Antwerpen, 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: LATT: MUHKADEMIE 2013. M HKA, Antwerpen, 27 September 2013 - 05 January 2014.
> Ensemble: MIGRATIE | MIGRATION.
> Ensemble: Middle Gate.
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> Ensemble: Benedenverdieping | Ground Floor.
> Ensemble: The Collection.
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> Ensemble: For The City and the World.
> Ensemble: Stichting Gordon Matta-Clark.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: Orbanism.
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