ΚΡΙΣΙΜΟΙ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ: ΑΜΒΕΡΣΑ

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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The Center of the World or How to get at Chalma, 1997

Jimmie Durham

Installation

"The Museum of Contemporary Art in Pori, Finland, invited me to do something there in 1997. I got a truck-load of rocks the size of fists or potatoes and put them all over the floor of the museum, even in the offices, toilets, and the gift shop. I also put these rocks outside the building, on the sidewalk and into the street. They were not so densely placed that they made a covering; spaced from 50 cm to 100 cm apart. I was trying, with these “free” stones to see if I could free up the architecture itself, and its agenda for the museum. (Not to fight or attack—the building is quite beautiful and well-suited to be an art museum.)" [full text here]

Read bellow Jimmie Durham’s text for the installation.

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ΚΡΙΣΙΜΟΙ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ: ΑΜΒΕΡΣΑ – ΑΘΗΝΑ

Jimmie Durham

The Center of the World or How to get at Chalma, 1997