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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    (c)image: M HKA
    Persis Clambatta II, 2001
    Panamarenko
    Object , 29 x 39 x 15.5 cm
    wood, clay, solar cells, electrical cells

    Panamarenko attempts to solve the nagging technical problem of the control mechanism in his second-generation Archaeopteryxes (starting in 2001).  Gradually he abandons the too-heavy electronic controls, and replaces them with a completely mechanical system.  It is mainly in his workshop in the Furka Pass in the Swiss Alps, that he likes to 'fiddle around' with his chickens, as he likes to say.  The Persis Clambatta from 2001 is a fresh attempt to arrive at a moving chicken-robot.  The construction is still partly electronic, including eight servomotors.  The name of the chicken is a wink to the actress Persis Khambatta, who played in the science-fiction film Star Trek: The Motion Picture from 1979.

    'I liked her look, and on top of that the film was full of all kinds of little robots...' - Panamarenko

    (source: Hans Willemse and Paul Morrens, in: 'Copyright Panamarenko', 2005)

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