Allan Sekula

Jointly developed by M HKA and the KU Leuven, this long-term, interdisciplinary research project focuses on a specific, yet complex body of work; multifaceted and variably installable, unfinished and open-ended: Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum (2010-2013) by artist and theorist Allan Sekula (1951-2013). Informed by the research of the team members, the project continues to evolve in a succession of research outputs, such as this digital platform.

Allan Sekula. Collective Sisyphus

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(c)image: M HKA

Untitled (Ships Archive, nr. 8), 1977

Photography , 27.6 x 22.2 cm

ink, paper

Seamen aboard the Cabo Pilar snare a small leader line [as indicated on backside of photograph], black-and-white photograph, March 28, 1977, 27.6 x 22.2 cm. Date of purchase by Allan Sekula unknown.

On the backside of the photograph:

Seamen aboard the Cabo Pilar snare a small leader line, preparing to draw aboard the hawser coiled on the deck of the tugboat Schley. Above, two employes of the Panama Canal Company rest during a break from their task of cleaning the Miraflores lock gates. Many working-class Panamanians favor U.S. control of the canal.

Mar. 28 1977

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