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

(c)Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1971 Print from an Approved Edition of Walker Evans' Photos of a Havana Dock-Worker (The Dockers' Museum, object nr. 60), 1932-1971
Print , 19,4 x 15,24 cm
ink, paper

1971 Print from an Approved Edition of Walker Evans’ Photos of a Havana Dock Worker [title given by Allan Sekula], print made by Tom Brown for Ives-Sillman under the supervision of Walker Evans, black-and-white photograph, 1932/1971, 19,4 x 15,4 cm. Purchased by Allan Sekula through eBay on 16 June 2011. © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  [Allan Sekula – The Dockers' Museum, 2010-2013, object nr. 60]