About this artwork
The Belgian artist and filmmaker Johan Grimonprez came to prominence when this highly-acclaimed film-essay, dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, was shown in 1997 at Documenta X. The work traces the history of airplane hijackings through archival images discovered during thorough archival research, televised images and quirky home movies. An exploration into media's mutating collusion with mass perception, and set against passages from Don DeLillo’s novels Mao II and White Noise, this dizzying chronicle of airplane hijacking eerily foreshadowed the events of 9/11.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Johan Grimonprez (born 1962) Belgian
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title:Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y + Inflight
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date created:1997 - 2001
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materials:Video, projection, colour and sound (stereo) and printed papers
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measurements:Unconfirmed: dimensions variable
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credit line:ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Art Fund, 2008
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accession number:AR00085
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artwork photographed by:Johan Grimonprez
Johan Grimonprez
Johan Grimonprez
Born in Belgium, Grimonprez studied Photography and Mixed Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent before travelling to the United States to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Graduating in 1992, the following year he attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. As a young...
