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

(c)image: AMVK
Only the Green Moments Make It All So Acceptable, 1980
Installation

"A. I hang 39 plexi-works on the walls, all in different colours and formats.
B. I also hang 7 European thoughts about ‘thinking’ on the walls.
C. On the floor are 6 combinations consisting out of : 1, a piece of used American bath-carpet, pink-fluorescent. 2, a Thrifties plastic bag, filled with yellow radioactive water. 3, a European thought on brainwork, red-fluorescent. 4, covered with thin transparent plastic fastened to the wall with black electricity- wire. 5, all overwhelmed with an American publicity-text.
D. I combine the 6 combinations through thin green- fluorescent tape with one of the European thoughts on the walls. But the tape never reaches the thought.
E. From each combination come 4 green tape-lines.
F. For light there is the bright L.A.light, it makes the space very white and bright.
G. The music ‘Radio in Another Room’ was made by Willy Tielemans."

− AMVK