Middle Gate

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    The exhibition project Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna is a collaboration between M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) and the cultural centre de Werft in Geel. Middle Gate II is the follow up to the exhibition Middle Gate, curated by Jan Hoet in Geel in 2013. The exhibition concept is closely tied to the legend of the holy Dymphna, saint of the possessed, the mentally ill and patroness against epilepsy and insanity. The legend of Dymphna shares a strong connection to the identity of Geel, "the charitable city".

    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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    De 5de Kracht, 1989
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Installation , variable dimensions
    video installation, 1 projection, 5 monitors

    (The 5th Force)

    "By making the installation De 5de kracht, I wanted to create a space of cult in which various moral survival systems could exist at the same time, in order to get a picture of what determines us as westerners in our behaviour and rational development. Atheistic but also religious ideas, Rosicrucians, practitioners of black magic, freemasons, evolution and information sects, pagan incantations, pop culture...

    It’s all there. It’s an attempt to reunite what is torn by civilisation and consciousness. To do this, I used knowledge representation, more specifically artificial intelligence, and combined it with medical colour indications on photos of the faces of heart patients. At the back of my mind, I thought of intelligence as a disease of civilisation, a kind of mould that has invaded our minds."

    − AMVK

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