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.

Ensemble: Anarchitectuur [Anarchitecture]

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Matta-Clark termed his activities and that of the group around him as anarchitecture, a contraction of the concepts anarchy and architecture that literally signify ‘non-architecture’. Anarchitecture is a confluence of a critique of cultural institutionalization (proper to conceptual art), a direct involvement with the environment (proper to land art), and a preference for the physical (proper to performance art). Anarchitecture was an informal group, very much open to alternative art forms, feeling related to dropouts and sympathetic to activism. Using architecture, Matta-Clark wished to literally and figuratively open up new possibilities: ‘He came to see buildings, rooms, urban space, neighborhoods and places where people come together as situations wherein his “interventions” could create something new’.

That was not just abstract or utopian; it also had to do with creating work- and meeting spaces for young artists. In this vein, together with Carol Gooden and Tina Girouard, he started the restaurant ‘Food’ in New York in 1971, becoming an artistic project, commercial enterprise and social initiative as well. Artists cooked for other artists, and often these meals became elevated to performances. Art events and performances were also organized there.

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Media

>Detailed view on 'Office Baroque (doors crossing)', 1977

>'Introduction to Anarchitecture (Gordon Matta-Clark and Office Baroque)', 2012.

Works

>Gordon Matta-Clark, Clockshower, 1973.Video, 16 mm film on video, 00:13:50.

>Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting, 1974.Video, super 8mm film on video, 00:09:40.

>Gordon Matta-Clark, Bingo, 1974.Intervention.

>Gordon Matta-Clark, Day's End (also called Day's Passing), 1975.Intervention.

>Gordon Matta-Clark, Office Baroque, 1977.Intervention.

>Gordon Matta-Clark, Jacob's Ladder, 1977.Intervention.

>Gordon Matta-Clark, Office Baroque (Doors Crossing), 1977.Installation, wood, 198 x 77 x 4 cm.

>Conical intersect - 1.Photography, vintage print, b/w photo, 25.3 x 20.2 cm, image: 24 x 19 cm.

>Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting: Four Corners, 1974.Photography, vintage print, b/w photo, 30.4 x 24 cm, image: 22.5 x 19.5 cm.