{"id":7910,"title":"The Missing U","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2002-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":129,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":12,"permalink":"the-missing-u","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Christophe Terlinden","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Intervention","nl":"Intervention","fr":"Intervention"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/017/701/large/M_HKA_NieuweGevel-7.jpg?1370433157","poster_credits":"(c)image: Bram Goots","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe art of Christoph Terlinden revolves around deceptively simple actions with far-reaching, even radical (aesthetic) consequences. When invited by M HKA, some years ago, to reshape the mental space between the museum and its audience, Terlinden\u0026rsquo;s proposed to drop the letter \u0026lsquo;U\u0026rsquo; from the M HKA acronym (one among many such onomatopoeic names now popular in the museum world), thus making the museum\u0026rsquo;s name effectively impossible to pronounce. The void in between the letters \u0026lsquo;M\u0026rsquo; and \u0026lsquo;H\u0026rsquo; thereby became the space of delirious projection, a free zone for the museum\u0026rsquo;s own de-institutionalizing thought \u0026ndash; a vision not easily realized in a world encumbered by factual, managerial considerations. (Financial and practical limitations also hampered the realization of another such proposal by Terlinden, which would have seen the entire museum painted in a certain \u0026quot;Swedish slipper green\u0026quot; color \u0026ndash; effectively the color of the artist\u0026rsquo;s slippers, somewhere midway between \u0026lsquo;proper\u0026rsquo; green and true blue, depending on the quality of the daylight.)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDe Belgische kunstenaar Christoph Terlinden maakt van eenvoudige, maar des te radicalere ingrepen zijn handel(ing)smerk. Toen hij door het M HKA werd uitgenodigd om in de \u0026lsquo;ruimte\u0026rsquo; tussen het museum en het publiek aan de slag te gaan, stelde hij voor om het logo ofte museale letterwoord \u0026ndash; in onze regio de eerste in een inmiddels gevoelig uitgebreide reeks van vlotbekkende instellingsnamen \u0026ndash; te veranderen; door de \u0026lsquo;U\u0026rsquo; uit de naam te schrappen wilde Terlinden het museum \u0026lsquo;onuitspreekbaar\u0026rsquo; maken. De klankloze leegte tussen \u0026lsquo;M\u0026rsquo; en \u0026lsquo;H\u0026rsquo; mocht van Terlinden met allerhande voorstellen worden ingevuld, maar op die uitnodiging is het museum vooralsnog niet ingegaan. Om praktisch-financi\u0026euml;le redenen ging het evenmin in op een tweede voorstel, namelijk om de verschoten huidkleur van het M HKA-exterieur te vervangen door een \u0026ldquo;Zweeds pantoffelgroen\u0026rdquo; \u0026ndash; een aan Terlindens Zweedse pantoffels ontleende, onbestemde tint die naar gelang de lichtinval soms blauwig en soms groenig werd.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eLa marque de fabrique de l\u0026rsquo;artiste belge, Christoph Terlinden sont ses op\u0026eacute;rations simples, mais d\u0026rsquo;autant plus radicales. Lorsque le M HKA l\u0026rsquo;avait invit\u0026eacute; \u0026agrave; s\u0026rsquo;occuper de \u0026lsquo;l\u0026rsquo;espace\u0026rsquo; entre le mus\u0026eacute;e et le public, il a propos\u0026eacute; de changer le logo, soit l\u0026rsquo;acronyme mus\u0026eacute;ologique \u0026ndash; dans notre r\u0026eacute;gion le premier dans une s\u0026eacute;rie de noms d\u0026rsquo;institutions facilement pronon\u0026ccedil;ables qui a entre-temps \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; consid\u0026eacute;rablement \u0026eacute;largie\u0026nbsp;; en suppriment le \u0026lsquo;U\u0026rsquo; du nom, Terlinden a voulu rendre le nom du mus\u0026eacute;e \u0026lsquo;impronon\u0026ccedil;able\u0026rsquo;. Selon Terlinden, le vide sourd entre le \u0026lsquo;M\u0026rsquo; et le \u0026lsquo;H\u0026rsquo; pouvait \u0026ecirc;tre compl\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; par bon nombre de propositions, mais jusqu\u0026rsquo;\u0026agrave; pr\u0026eacute;sent, le mus\u0026eacute;e n\u0026rsquo;y a pas donn\u0026eacute; suite. Pour des raisons pratiques et financi\u0026egrave;res, le mus\u0026eacute;e n\u0026rsquo; a pas non plus donn\u0026eacute; suite \u0026agrave; la deuxi\u0026egrave;me proposition, \u0026agrave; savoir de remplacer la couleur de chair alt\u0026eacute;r\u0026eacute;e de l\u0026rsquo;ext\u0026eacute;rieur du M HKA par un \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;vert de pantoufle su\u0026eacute;dois\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo; - un teint ind\u0026eacute;cis, emprunt\u0026eacute; aux pantoufles su\u0026eacute;dois de Terlinden qui, en fonction de la lumi\u0026egrave;re est parfois bleu\u0026acirc;tre et parfois verd\u0026acirc;tre.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":720,"name":"Christophe Terlinden","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}