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
    Tlunh Datsi, 1985-1985
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 103 x 91 x 81 cm
    Skull, feathers, turquoise, acrylic paint, shells, wood

    *Tluhn Datsi* was one of the works exhibited in the first show called [*A Matter of Life and Death and Singing*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/events/386), in New York, 1985. In that period Jimmie Durham intentionally used ethnically coded references in his materials and vocabulary. *Tluhn datsi*, meaning “panther” in Cherokee, is made of a puma skull with shells, feathers and fur, resting on a wooden stand that says “POLICE DEPT”. Often asked about the question of identity in his work, Durham has said: “I’m accused, constantly, of making art about my own identity. I never have. I make art about the settler’s identity when I make political art. It’s not about my identity, it’s about the Americans’ identity.” [watch the video bellow]

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