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

    James Lee Byars

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    (c)image: M HKA
    Two in a Hat, Mask and Dress, 1969
    James Lee Byars
    Installation , ca. 12 m
    red silk

    "I imagine: 'two people in a mask', that can be interesting as an object. In a class for example, that would be effective, if a teacher would put on such a mask. How do you talk from a distance? How does distance influence communicability? Anyway, I am now being interviewed in a 33 meters mask, which makes the interview very different.

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    I divided the show in the 'Institute' [Wide White Space Gallery] into different parts. First there was the hat, in which the heads were fixed, and at the bottom the two students in the mask, who were meant purely as an ornament."

    Source: James Lee Byars in an interview by Geert Bekaert and Walter Van Dijk in Streven, Vol. 22.

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