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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    We went uptown and let us tell you, it was fantastic, 1982
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 2 evenings a week

    22.2.1982
    New York, Park Avenue

    In collaboration with friend and artist Anson Seeno, Fabre makes and signs small drawings on dollar bills. He tries to sell these and bags of salt as visual art works to passers-by. This performance touches upon the value of the artist’s signature. 

     

    'It's really great doing things without planning them.
    Just for fun.
    Today I did a performance with Anson Seeno
    on Park Avenue (Uptown).
    We set ourselves up at a table outside a bank.
    We signed packets of salt and 1 dollar notes
    and tried to sell them.
    Didn't sell anything, but had a fantastic blazing
    argument with a group of sometimes
    10 to 15 passers-by on the miraculous relationship
    between capitalism and art.'

    (Jan Fabre, New York, 22 February 1982)

     

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