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

(c)Angelos bvba, VRT - Archief
Television action: The Emperor's New Clothes, 1984
Performance , 00:10:00

(Jan Fabre & Guillaume Bijl, Leo Copers, Jan Vanriet, etc.)

8.4.1984
Brussels, National Broadcast

This piece was presented on national television contemporaneous with the, now historical, theatre production ‘The power of theatrical madness’. He asks each of his artist friends to read a passage from the fairytale ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’.