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.

>Jim Shaw

The Electronic Monster and Thirteen Ghosts, 2024

Installation, variable dimensions.

©Jim Shaw, The Electronic Monster and Thirteen Ghosts, 2024 – film still - image copyright: Jim Shaw. Courtesy the artist and M HKA

Collection: Courtesy of the Artist.

The Electronic Monster and Thirteen Ghosts (2024) is a new work created for the exhibition, inspired by the memories of a double-bill horror movie Shaw saw at the cinema when he was nine years old. The installation brings together singing wigs, an aggressive vacuum cleaner, catalogue models, cavemen, a half-cake, half-intestine figure, and the ghosts of industrial power and consumerism in a last, grotesque, and outdated dance. The work resurfaces American society’s debris and components, like an adrift yet very much present floating ideology. It is apparent — in this piece and many others — that Jim Shaw’s oeuvre is marked by a vintage aesthetic that reveals how important the 1960s were in forging his vision as a young artist, while he now uses this aesthetic as a poignant means of both depicting and undermining “the mythologised golden age of patriarchy in post-war America, where white men ran everything”. The present spectacle confronts viewers with a typically European standpoint: hungry for and critical of a stereotypical America, existing beyond a reality one can’t quite grasp.

Credits

Editing, Animation - Kane Lafia

Videography - Daniel Hawkins

Music mixing, looping etc. - Kane Lafia

Music - Jim Shaw, D’redd D’warf (Dani Tull, Brian Randolph, Daniel Hope, Jim Shaw), Kalle Nemvalts

Voice Recording - Corby Gallegos

Voice Editing - Alan Tofighi

Catalog models written dialogue - Colette Weber Shaw

Catalog model Script editor - Akela Munson

Set Photographer - LeeAnn Nickel

Performers

Amorphous head Puppeteer - Daniel Hope

Book - Kelsey Kuykendall

Cake - Kane Lafia

Cavemen - Marnie Weber, Kane Lafia, Daniel Hope

The Electronic Monster - Jim Shaw

Vacuum Cleaner - Daniel Hope

Wig Puppets - Tanya Haden and Mariah Csepanyi Cool

Vocal Performers

Catalog model voices - Conor Murphy, Blake Bailey, Corby Gallegos, Jim Shaw

Crackly puppet head voice - Tanya Haden

Cake and Vacuum voices - Corby Gallegos

Cigarette men voice - Blake Bailey

Parking Meter Voice - Jim Shaw

Smooth puppet head voice - Jim Shaw

Costume and Puppet Fabrication - Daniel Hope, Kelsey Kuykendall

Assisted by: Shelby Date, Javier Espinoza-Lopez

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Artist

> Jim Shaw.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Jim Shaw — The Ties That Bind . M HKA, Antwerp, 09 February 2024 - 19 May 2024.

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