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, photo: Max Ratjen
    Parrots and guinea pigs, 2003
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 00:30:00

    20.3.2003
    Paris, L'Arche éditeur

    On the twentieth anniversary of the collaboration between Jan Fabre and his French publisher  L’Arche the artist conceives a performance in the publisher’s shopwindow in the Rue Bonaparte. The underlying theme is ‘Everyone is a Belgian guinea pig’. 

     

    'Performed a poetic action
    in the shopwindow of my Paris publishers:
    'Every Belgian is a guinea pig and a parrot'.
    (The glory of experiment and repetition was in
    power.)
    I found sand in the desert
    and my repetition told a secret
    out of a mirror without an image.
    (For Marcel Broodthaers and Freddy De Vree.)

    (Jan Fabre, Paris, 20 March 2004)

     

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