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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    (c)still: AMVK
    De sexuele revolutie, 1997
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Video
    computer animation

    "The interactive projection “The sexual revolution” happens straight from a computer. It cuts the exhibition in two, happens on a fluorescent sheet of 2 by 3 meters and is divided in three. One can see three independent running animations, each with their own sound. The films can be stopped each one separately, and then activated again. When the mouse, that controls all these actions, is left alone for more than three minutes, the projection starts anew from the beginning. The image was first cut in the middle horizontally, then the top part was divided again. By this I try to act out a personal image of the human brain; top left is the conscious, top right the unconscious and underneath the subconscious. The subconscious is as large as the sum of both others.

    I defined the Conscious as that what I order my material biotope to do, the SELF, 2 or 3000 years old, the Unconscious as that what the social biotope whispers to me, the instinct, the Knowledge, and the Subconscious as that what the genetic biotope offers me, the robot, the unconscious agens, science, intuition."

    − AMVK

    Images, animation and sound: AMVK

    Interactivity: Danny Devos

    Producer: Club Moral

     

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