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Item: Museum of European Normality

Maria Thereza AlvesJimmie Durham

2008

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Collection: Courtesy of the artists.

The Museum of European Normality is an installation set up as a parody of a documentation centre with socio-anthropological pretensions. It includes videos, maps, images from books and other sorts of documentation material. In one of the projects presented in the Museum, visitors can volunteer to donate their head to the Maoris in New Zealand. Facts and figures are presented as if part of a study, together with maps showing migration patterns across Europe, shaping our European Normality. An anti-guest book is displayed at the entrance, with more than 5.000 names of people who have died trying to immigrate to Europe or in refugee camps.

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The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

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The M HKA Ensembles represent our first steps towards initiating the public to today's art-related digital landscape. With the help of these new media, our aim is to offer our artworks a better and fuller array of support for their presentation and public understanding.