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

Untitled (Glam Girls, nr. 55), 1969
Photography , 24 x 18.2 cm
ink, paper

1969, Playamar - The projected vacation-center on the Spanish Costa del Sol [as indicated on frontside of photograph], black-and-white photograph, 24 x 18.2 cm. Keystone Zurich 27-3-69 KEYSTONE Press Agency, Inc., 170 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 WA 4-8123. Date of purchase by Allan Sekula unknown.


On the frontside of the photograph:

Playamar - The projected vacation-center on the spanish Costa del Sol Keystone Zurich 27-3-69 KEYSTONE Press Agency, Inc., 170 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 WA 4-8123