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: Money en de kunstwereld [Money and the art world]

©Angelos bvba

During several of his early performances, Jan Fabre attempts to make his mark on art history, critically reflecting on the work of art as commercial commodity.  He also casts a critical eye on the art world's prevailing laws, and charts the ambiguous position occupied by money within our contemporary society.  In his very first performance - in reaction to art-school traditions - Fabre turns classical paintings upside down and clads them with a text reading: "You have to take everything seriously, but not tragically so."

When Jan Fabre, during the course of Money Performance, rips up, eats and finally burns the entry-receipts, the furious public storms the stage.  Also, with his The Rea(dy)make of the Money Performance, where the artist makes an exhibition with the money collected, and walks around in a suit made of money while stuffing the rest in his pockets, the public's reaction is less than enthusiastic.

At the opening of their exhibition The Essential Multiple, Jan Fabre and Erik Vermeulen ask members of the public for an entry fee.  A signed receipt is given, stapled and then handed back as a multiple made by the artists.  During the opening of an exhibition in Turnhout, Fabre goes around with a bag on his head that reads 'Buy at Jan Fabre'.

The same themes are again taken up during Jan Fabre's stay in the United States.  With After Art he investigates what it means it means to be a young artist on a public platform.  For The Killing of J.F.K., he shoots at a dollar coin bearing Kennedy's image.  The Creative Hitler Act sees Fabre explore the role of artist as dictator, and who as absolute ruler determines which language is to be used.  The relationship between artist and art critic is further examined in Art as a Gamble, Gamble as an Art.  When Fabre calls into question the critic's position within the world of art by symbolically torturing the philosopher Lars A. Mogensen with art-related attributes, a member of the public calls the cops.  On New York's Park Avenue, Fabre together with artist colleague Anson Seeno try to sell passers-by drawings on dollar bills and bags of salt as art works.  When his proposal to have art critics shoot at him in a manner of Russian roulette the organizers refuse, and Fabre's reaction to this results in his piece It's Kill or Cure

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Works

>Jan Fabre, You have to take everything seriously but not tragically, 1976.Performance, 00:10:00.

>Jan Fabre, Long Street of Images - Jan Fabre Street, 1977.Performance, 00:50:00.

>Jan Fabre, Action: The Essential Multiple, 1978.Performance, during the opening of the exhibition.

>Jan Fabre, Zeno X (performance with my tortoises Janneke & Mieke), 1978-1981.Performance, 04:00:00.

>Jan Fabre, Vincent van Gogh - Jan Fabre house, 1978.Performance, 00:50:00.

>Jan Fabre, Money Performance, 1979.Performance, 00:50:00.

>Jan Fabre, American Works and Window Performance, 1980.Performance, 03:00:00.

>Jan Fabre, The Creative Hitler Act, 1980.Performance, 01:00:00.

>Jan Fabre, The Killing of J.F.K., 1980.Performance, 00:10:00.

>Jan Fabre, After Art, 1980.Performance, 00:34:00.

>Jan Fabre, Money (Art) in Culture, 1980.Performance, 00:40:00.

>Jan Fabre, The Rea(dy)-make of the Money Performance, 1980.Performance, 00:50:00.

>Jan Fabre, Bill us later, 1981-1982.Performance, over several years.

>Jan Fabre, Music Performances: Homo Fabere: This ain't work this is evolution, 1981.Performance, 01:20:00.

>Jan Fabre, T.Art, 1981.Performance, 01:00:00.

>Jan Fabre, Art as a Gamble, Gamble as an Art, 1981.Performance, 00:50:00.

>Jan Fabre, Performance X ... Art as a Cultivated Boredom, 1981.Performance.

>Jan Fabre, It is Kill or Cure, 1982.Performance, 01:00:00.

>Jan Fabre, We went uptown and let us tell you, it was fantastic, 1982.Performance, 2 evenings a week.

>Jan Fabre, Ich bin ein Skelettman, 1988.Performance, 00:20:00.

>Jan Fabre, Parrots and guinea pigs, 2003.Performance, 00:30:00.

>Jan Fabre, I am the shame pole, 2010.Performance, 00:32:00.