ΚΡΙΣΙΜΟΙ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ: ΑΜΒΕΡΣΑ – ΑΘΗΝΑ

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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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    Gilgamesh and Me, 1993
    Jimmie Durham
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    Published in the catalogue for the exhibition On taking a normal situation and retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present at M HKA, Antwerp, 1993

    Editor’s Note

    In the autumn of this year Jimmie Durham, who has posed variously as an artist, a theoretical biologist, and as an international gardener, was detained under suspicion by the authorities at Antwerp Airport. Durham was found attempting to enter the city carrying sheets of dried pulp made from trees, upon which he allegedly had made certain markings. The following text, deciphered by the Bureau of Egress, was delivered to the Museum by the Bureau of Foreign Documents. The Museum does not claim authenticity for the text; certainly it does not contain the original markings made by Durham.

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