SUPERDEMOCRACY

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    SUPER DEMOCRACY - The Senate of Things

    Three cultural institutions enter into a dialogue with the Belgian Senate during the exhibition SUPERDEMOCRACY, which is on display throughout October. BPS22 in Charleroi, BOZAR in Brussels and M HKA in Antwerp provide a cultural dimension to the Senate’s current issues.

    1.10.2017 - 31.10.2017

    Guy Mees

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    (c)image: M HKA
    6 x 4 min. (Portretten) [6 x 4 min. (Portraits)], 1974
    Guy Mees
    Film , 00:24:00
    digital betacam, dvd, b/w, sound

    The video breakthrough. Video is the perfect symbol of what for some time have been called the ‘new media’, signalling the start of an opening up of the hierarchical structure of the ‘old media’ which was to lead to the present ‘e-culture’. The first system, called ‘Phonovision’, goes back to the 1920s. The first TV pictures were stored on ordinary gramophone records. In Belgium, the ICC was one of the first places where video art was shown. The ICC was an international avant-garde arts centre set up by the then new Flemish Community in 1970. This is the institution from which the M HKA emerged. In addition, in 1974 Flor Bex set up the first Belgian video studio for artists, called ‘Continental Video’. A cinema was opened in an old bus, and this ‘mobile museum for modern media’ was able to take the new art out to the people.

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