Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp

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    The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

    28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

    M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

    EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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    (c)video still: AMVK
    Lust Control, 1998
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Video , variable dimensions
    computer animation

    "The screen is divided in two halves.

    At the top five different images of the roof of the buildings of the Ministry at the Koolstraat in Brussels. Every image refers to a working day, each working day with a word. By clicking on one of the words, one enters the corresponding day. The words are for Monday: subset, Tuesday: subtend, Wednesday: syntex, Thursday: flux and Friday: inter. Every day is available in 10 variations of the same theme that change at random. If you click another word, another day will appear. If you click in the day, then five eroticized concepts will appear after each other, thus every day five women images, re-used in function of core words from a lecture about thermodynamics.

    Every day also has its own sound, a slow wave, a deformed oscillation, very elemental, simple, absurd in its infinity.

    The bottom part of the screen is an animation of a still of four people having a conversation in an art gallery. This film is three minutes long and needs to be activated each time by the spectator. A matter or reinforcing the social aspect of the lower half also by real intervention of the spectator. The beginning and ending is a white screen.

    And all this while the roof of the ministry is evoluating undisturbed, at random."

    − AMVK

    Concept / Images / Editing: AMVK

    Interactivity and postproduction: Danny Devos

    Producer: Club Moral

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