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

    Jan Fabre

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    The Creative Hitler Act, 1980
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 01:00:00

    7.11.1980
    Milwaukee, Saint-Louis University

    The Creative Hitler Act (an allusion to Duchamp’s The Creative Act) is concerned with the artist as dictator. Jan Fabre adapts pages and phrases from fairytales, generating new meanings. The artist as individualist determines the language he uses.

     

    'Performed 'The Creative Hitler Act' today.

    My response to Marcel Duchamp's

    legendary lecture 'The Creative Act'.

    Confusion prevailed.

    The brains went haywire and their

    underbelly was emty.

    Interpretations went in some horrible directions.

    (I permitted it with laughing eyes

    and an angry mouth.)'

    (Jan Fabre, Milwaukee, 7 November 1980)

     

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