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
    Byars at the MET ...invisibly, NY, 1970
    James Lee Byars
    Other , 4.8 x 7.4 cm, 2.7 x 2.7 cm
    pink envelope, two squared papers

    JLB: 'It says, “Byars at the Met… invisibly.”'

    DS: "Beautiful. What year was that?"

    JLB: "1971"

    DS: "And this goes in envelope?"

    JLB: "Yes, if you like. What was wonderful about it was that I was wearing a red satin and I had North-South make a big bamboo pole so I looked like twenty-one feet tall and had a ball on the top with a red veil and high heels, and I could run in front of the Met like that, chasing the public, giving them invisibility."

    From: Interview by David Sewell

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