Wednesday Matinée - Tactical Media today at HeK

Event Dates: 
12 April, 2017 - 10:00 - 12:00

Guided exhibition tour and discussion through the current exhibition. Organized in scope of the Wednesday Matinées program of Basel Museums. Wednesday Matinees offer work observations, discussions, glimpses behind the scenes and even try-out sessions (in German) - all designed to give visitors a closer look at Basel museums and help them discover new worlds.

Every Wednesday from 10 a.m. till noon in a different institution and with no advance booking.

How much of this is fiction. focuses on politically inspired media art that uses deception in all its forms, and will be showing at HeK from 23 March until 21 May 2017. 

At the heart of the exhibition is the desire to address one of today’s most urgent political issues: the radical shift in the boundary between fiction and reality in public discourse, in a world increasingly governed by ‘post-truth’ politics. How much of this is fiction. shows the artist as ‘dark jester’, as trickster, using a variety of hoaxes, hacks and ruses to reveal the hidden workings of power structures and the possibility of alternative futures.

When: Wed 12 April 2017, 10:00 - 12:00

Where: House of Electronic Arts Basel, Freilager-Platz 9, 4142 Münchenstein / Basel

Admission: 10.- / 5 CHF (for children from age 13 - 16)