De tentoonstellingen Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp en Dringende Gesprekken: Antwerpen – Athene zijn een samenwerking tussen het EMST en het M HKA, een theoretische en visuele dialoog tussen de werken uit de collecties van beide musea. Meer dan 70 werken worden samengebracht in 22 thematische clusters.
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
Edited & Foreword : Jean Fisher.
Preface : Anders Kreuger (Curator M HKA).
Jimmie Durham, artist, poet and political activist, has been one of the most influential figures of recent decades. This volume of writings comprise a selection of essays and conferences on art and society, critical reflections on 'Eurasia', the history of US-American Indian relations, and observations on the city and nature. A recurrent theme is his interrogation of the ideological complicity between monumental architecture and scripture - 'architexture' - as the foundation of Eurocentric belief and tool of others' disenfranchisement.
Here, words, lik the stones and motley materials he gathers for his assemblages, are remobilised otherwise ; they become agents for 'interrupting' received ideas through writings that both disturb and delight, but never cease to provoke questions about the forces that shape our world. Jimmie Durham's is a rare and liberating voice in the architextural wilderness of contemporary life.
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