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.

A Staff for the Center of the World in Siberia, 1995

Performance

image: © Yrjö Haila

"Maybe I Will Do Nothing Visible in Yakutia. Certainly I cannot either take artwork there and leave it, nor make artwork there and bring it back to Tycho Brahe’s house in Copenhagen where we will all meet up. I will take tobacco and leave it as a private ceremony of adoption into [Eurasia](http://ensembles.mhka.be/ensembles/eurasia), but except for this sentence that will not be part of the art project. (It will instead be part of future art projects.) I will take a small mirror that I found in the flea market in Lisboa. It reflects evil thoughts and spirits back onto themselves. If I make a staff to represent the center of the world in Yakutsk, of what wood could it be? Birch, I suppose; because birch tea is good for your eyes and because “birch” originally means “bright” in every language (Kotsun’ wa)."[full text [here](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3168)] Read an account of Durham's quest in Siberia in his [text](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/3934) for the [catalogue](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/5012) of the [exhibition](http://ensembles.mhka.be/events/jimmie-durham-a-matter-of-life-and-death-and-singing) at M HKA.

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Media

>Impersonating Mighty Mouse in Yakutia

>Jimmie Durham in Yakutia

>Cutting the Siberian forest in Yakutia

Artist

> Jimmie Durham.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.

> Ensemble: Performance, Video and Self-Portraits.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham's Eurasian Projects.

> Ensemble: The Center of The World.