{"id":4073,"title":"The Corridor of Extinction","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1995-01-01","material":"mixed media","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"BK006940","stream_count_app":42,"permalink":"the-corridor-of-extinction","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/009/110/medium_500/Dion__Mark__0003_The_corridor_of_extinction__1995.jpg?1336136943","cached_actor_names":"Mark Dion","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/009/110/large/Dion__Mark__0003_The_corridor_of_extinction__1995.jpg?1336136943","poster_credits":"© Mark Dion / Collectie M HKA / Vlaamse Gemeenschap / Galerie Tanya Rumpff / foto : M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Dion represents a strongly intellectualist strand within late eighties and early nineties art practice, and is equally associated with institutional critique\u0026rsquo;s unrelenting questioning of the institutions of art - the institution of the museum ranking foremost among these. In Dion\u0026rsquo;s seemingly scientific installations, which borrow freely and promiscuously from the adjoining realms and linguae francae of archeology, biology and botanism, the basic questions always concern the truth claims of the museum - whether this pertains to the art museum or the museum of natural history is only of secondary importance. Dion\u0026lsquo;s \u003cem\u003eCorridor of Extinction\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;was acquired in 1997, four years after the artist\u0026rsquo;s remarkable debut at M HKA, in the seminal exhibition \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;On Taking a Normal Situation...\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e \u0026ndash; then as now an occasion for Dion to trace a connection between the museum and the city of Antwerp\u0026rsquo;s fabled, historic zoo. The carpeted, walk-through \u003cem\u003eCorridor\u003c/em\u003e, decorated with musty wallpaper, parodically combines bourgeois tastes for animals of both the domestic, living kind (a goldfish in a little bowl) and the long dead (the extinct species referred to in the title, occupying small wooden frames along the corridor).\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Dion vertegenwoordigt een sterk intellectuele stroming in de kunst van de late jaren tachtig en vroege jaren negentig, en is nauw verbonden met de opkomst der zogeheten \u0026ldquo;institutionele kritiek\u0026rdquo;: in zijn wetenschapshistorisch uitziende installaties, waarin bijna altijd biologie, zo\u0026ouml;logie, plantkunde en archeologie centraal staan, wordt steeds opnieuw de vraag gesteld naar wezen en waarachtigheid van het museum \u0026ndash; waarbij weinig onderscheid wordt gemaakt tussen natuurhistorisch of kunstmuseum. Zijn \u003cem\u003eCorridor of Extinction\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003ewerd aangekocht in 1997, vier jaar nadat Dion al te gast was in het M HKA voor de belangwekkende tentoonstelling \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;On Taking a Normal Situation\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e \u0026ndash; toen ook al de aanleiding voor een project waarin Dion het M HKA met de Antwerpse zoo verbond. \u003cem\u003eCorridor of Extinction\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;bestaat uit een corridor waar de bezoeker doorheen kan lopen, bekleed met tapijt, lambrisering en behangpapier, en uitgerust met de emblemen van burgerlijke bewoning: een (levende) goudvis in een kom en enkele smaakvolle gravures in kleine houten kaders \u0026ndash; waarin de beeltenissen van uitgestorven diersoorten zijn opgenomen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":745,"name":"Mark Dion","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}