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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    (c)Angelos bvba, Collection M HKA
    A Consilience , 2000
    Martin Brendell, Ian Gauld, Dick Vane-Wright, Rory Post, Martin Hall, Jan Fabre
    Performance , 00:36:00

    London, The Natural History Museum

    Jan Fabre was artist in residence in The Natural History Museum of London for three years. The final result is a film in which he dresses the various museum specialists as the animals of their research. The artist discuss the cross fertilisation, the consilience, between art and science with them.

     

    'Today's actions with the butterfly specialist

    Dick Vane-Wright had a liberating and poetic
    power.
    The power of childlike transparency.
    These actions were a drastic weapon
    against the conventions of what is
    currently considered to be Performance art.'

    (Jan Fabre, London, 9 October 1999)

    'The Quest for consilience continues.
    And the Natural History Museum is the perfect
    spritual terrain on which to pursue this research
    into the possible cross-fertilisation
    between science and art.'

    (Jan Fabre, London, 11 october 1999)

    'What do an exciting and interesting scientist

    and an exciting and interesting artist have in
    common?
    They both have an unremitting urge to hazard
    a leap into the uknown time and time again
    (ART IS PERFORMANCE).'

    (Jan Fabre, London, 12 October 1999)

     

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