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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    A Gambling battle between a curator and an artist , 1991
    Jan Hoet, Jan Fabre
    Performance , 03:00:00

    Jan Fabre & Jan Hoet

    24.5.1991.

    Tokyo, Patchinko Hall

     

    'In the early evening flirted with the Japanese
    Lady Luck again, what a woman!
    Played Patchenko for hours together with Jan,
    and again he couldn't stop either.
    It's a hallucinatory sensation, the sound of hundreds
    of thousands of small silver-coloured balls hitting
    each other from different directions at high speed.
    I Have always liked gambling.
    The higher the stakes, the bigger the kick.
    I like the sublime moment of the power decision.
    I Gamble to win, but not for the winnings.
    The game itself is much more fascinating,
    even when one loses. The essential thing
    is the tension. And the effect it has on me.
    When I left I had the feeling my organs were
    floating around inside my body.' 

    (Jan Fabre, Tokyo, 24 May 1991)

     

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