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

Autobiography, 1970
Video , 00:10:00
16 mm film transferred onto video, black and white

"Maybe the complete autobiography could be one sentence, I don’t know but just arbitrarily in this instance I have many pages and I would… I think that the autobiography and the process of arriving at it is very related to the idea of the connectedness of people. I think that our consciousness and our existence is more connected than we generally perceive. What is memory for example? What does memory mean? How is it that I can come with an idea like the airplane and many people understand this. Does everyone know everything already, I don’t know. How do you find out something fresh? How do you understand that this could be important?" - James Lee Byars

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