Urgent Conversations: Athene – Antwerpen

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    De tentoonstellingen Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp en Dringende Gesprekken: Antwerpen – Athene zijn een samenwerking tussen het EMST en het M HKA, een theoretische en visuele dialoog tussen de werken uit de collecties van beide musea. Meer dan 70 werken worden samengebracht in 22 thematische clusters.

    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
    75 in a Hat, 1969
    James Lee Byars
    Performance , 13.5 m x 30.5 cm
    red silk

    "My interest first was in the plural structure, just to, I don’t know exactly why that I should make things that men and women can wear at the same time, that’s very interesting socially I think. That in the history of… At least I don’t know of structures where men and women wear the same structure, that people are undifferentiated, their heads stick out or their heads are covered up, this calls a new kind of experience to people, what is clothing? What does clothing mean? What is the legality of a man and a woman wearing the same structure down a New York street. If there are four people in a disc, sixteen feet in diameter, to go into the museum, are you one or are you four? Or if they were 75 in a hat, are you one or are you 75?"

    From: James Lee Byars / Antwerp 18 April-7 May 1969, Jef cornelis, First broadcast: VRT 1, 28/11/1969

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