INBOX: w wh at* – Widu Gasti & werk mee
image: w wh at*
M HKA reserves its fifth floor for surprising interventions and intimate pop-up presentations. INBOX is a place that inspires and surprises, one that offers us a glimpse into the world of passionate thinkers and doers. With INBOX, M HKA creates a physical space in which the museum addresses often-recurring questions.
In the periods between the various events, we present a selection of our collection works, with particular attention to video art.
INBOX can be visited for free.
w wh at * cooperates with artists and volunteers, developing unique ways to create together and to show this polyphony. At M HKA, wh wh at* continues the activities of the voorforvaastfanclub, abbreviated as vfvf. This fan club, founded in 2014, consists of Atelier LEA participants, and collaborates with other groups and organisations. vfvf explores the work of Belgian contemporary visual artist Vaast Colson. His vision is the fan club's guiding principle: a good work of art does not only work through its meaning, but continues into our daily lives. And his practice is the starting point to organise actions that continue, appropriate and share Colson's artistic attitude – showing their own version of it.
During the Antwerp Art Weekend 2017, the fan club launched its ga go Vaast campagne campaign 17>19 in gallery trampoline. The campaign's guideline is a quest for Widu Gasti, a knight character from Vaast Colson's oeuvre. The motto is: WERK MEE – PARTICIPATE. The residences or workspaces of the 2017 fan club became 'parada's', Spanish for stops or halting places, namely the Summer Academy in Dworp, the exhibition The Artist/Knight in Gaasbeek Castle and Leuven association De Ruimtevaart vzw.
At M HKA too, the fan club invites (in co-operation with guides and museum) the visitors to participate in the campaign and to make the search for Wide Gasti visible – together. For M HKA, this project is part of research into a new way of thinking about the visitors whereby the visitor is seen as a co-owner, through dialogue, participation and co-creation. What happens if the museum puts relations centre stage and how can we collect or archive (volatile) encounters?
Follow the voorforvaastfanclub's different actions on the websites of w wh at* and trampoline.
For more information and photos, please contact:
Bert De Vlegelaer
Press Officer
E bert.devlegelaer@muhka.be
T +32 (0)3 260 99 91