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 (Ships Archive, nr. 27)

Photography , 17.8 x 23.1 cm

ink, paper

SPANISH BOAT [the 5,000-ton freighter Navemar] HELD IN NEW YORK AFTER OWNERS [Compania Espanola de Navegación Maritima of South America] CHARGE CREW SEIZED HER, [as indicated on backside of photograph], black-and-white photograph [FROM WIDE WORLD PHOTOS.], 17.8 x 23.1 cm. Date of purchase by Allan Sekula unknown.

On the backside of the photograph:

FROM WIDE WORLD PHOTOS: WATCH YOUR CREDIT LINE 99,100

SPANISH BOAT HELD IN NEW YORK AFTER OWNERS CHARGE CREW SEIZED HER.

NEW YORK CITY- The 5,000 ton freighter Navemar, shown in New York harbor today where she is being guarded by patrol boats pending the settlement of protests made by the owners. The spanish owners of the vessel, Compania Espanola de Navegacion Maritima of South America, charged in Brooklyn Federal Court that the crew took the ship from Buenos Aires when the captain was ashore. The crew of thirty-four is now operated by a "commitee" who it is believed is sympathetic to the Spanish loyalists

H-12/14/36

200510-940

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