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

    Jimmie Durham

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    image: (c) Maria Thereza Alves
    Incident at Middelburg, 1996
    Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
    Video , 00:01:12
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    "In the video a stone attempts to answer the telephone. The telephone is on the ground, looking very similar to Joseph Beuys’s Earth Telephone. This, I’m sorry to confess, is simply one of those coincidences that so often happen. I was not commenting on Beuys’s telephone. At that time I did not know of it." [full text here]

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