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

    Panamarenko

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    ELF-zender [ELF-transmitter], 1986
    Panamarenko
    Object , 28 x 16 x 16.5 cm
    copper, magnets, aluminium, copper wire

    Frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 Hz. are referred to as 'extremely low frequencies' or ELF. The radio waves have a wavelength of 10.000 till 100.000 kilometres. Apart from the application of sending signals to submarines at great depth, ELF signals can be used to catch the natural fluctuations of Earth's electromagnetic field. Later, in his attic at the Biekorfstraat, Panamarenko starts a project he never completed, namely to construct a 'Sterrenvolger' (star follower), that should map the magnetic fields in the universe.

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