M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Eurasia, A Scent, 1997

Sculpture, 25 x 7 x 10 cm.

©image: Alfredo Pernin

Collection: Courtesy of the artist.

In 1995, Jimmie Durham made a [trip to Siberia](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3686) and found out that, just like in North America, there were black walnuts. The incredible smell of it reminded him of his childhood and he felt at home. He decided to make a perfume that would have an [Eurasian](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/eurasia) smell which he would in this way preserve, with the green black walnuts as special ingredients. Durham described it on a text accompanying the artwork [*Black walnut*](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/1807): “I made an Eurasian perfume, mixing the fresh green shells of the walnut with sage, elderflower, rose and other plants (Black walnut is of course no longer native to Eurasia, but my premise was that it once had been.) The smells of the outer skin, shell and nutmeat are each distinctive, but all beautiful, sexy and spicy. The taste is too good to believe.”

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Artist

> Jimmie Durham.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham's Eurasian Projects.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.