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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Untitled (Maritime Strikes & Demonstrations, nr. 5), 1937

Photography , 16.5 x 21.5 cm

ink, paper

Vintage ’37 SS California Maritime Labor Strikers Photo [as indicated on PayPal document], black-and-white photograph, 1937, [“Sit-down strike aboard a Luxury liner […]. The radio operators, members of a C.I.O. Union, have walked-out and the seamen are sitting-down in sympathy” [as indicated on backside of photograph], 16.5 x 21.5 cm. Purchased by Allan Sekula through eBay on March 13, 2009.

On the backside of the photograph:

Sit-downing de luxe

NEW YORK...Stretched out in deck chairs and sunning themselves beneath a warm april sun, these seamen, members of the crew of the S.S California, find that a sit-down strike aboard a Luxury liner, is not to be tossed over one's shoulder. The radio operators, members of a C.I.O. Union, have walked-out and the seamen are sitting-down in sympathy

(B-4-15-37)--9-20 see story

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