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.

New York Gitli, 1985

Sculpture, 120 x 29 x 70 cm.

image: © Maria Thereza Alves

Collection: Collection of Ines and Philippe Kempeneers, Belgium.

Jimmie Durham lived in New York from 1973 to 1987 and, after a period of exclusive engagement with American Indian issues, re-started making art in 1980. There, he made a few shows such as The Manhattan Festival of the Dead and A Matter of Life and Death and Singing, where artworks like New York Gitli and Tlunh Datsi were exhibited. These two pieces, both made with ornamented animal skulls, are works where Durham mixes American identity with a Cherokee vocabulary (gitli means dog in Cherokee).

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Media

>New York Gitli

>New York Gitli: detail

Artist

> Jimmie Durham.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. Alternative Museum, New York, 1985.

> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1980 - 1993.

> Ensemble: Animal Skulls and Other Figures.

> Ensemble: Objects.