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18/3/2000

Johan Grimonprez

Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne

"Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y", one of the most acclaimed works of the 1997 Documenta where it premiered, is a filmic fictional history of hijacking which sets out the relationship between the media and terrorism. This pseudo-documentary tracks the progression of hijacking from the revolutionary of the 1960s and 1970s to the anonymous bomb parcels of the 1990s. In a kaleidoscopic mixture of archival television footage and personal home-movie material, Belgian-based artist Johan Grimonprez uses the text of two novels by Don DeLillo and examines the media business of contemporary catastrophe culture. With a soundtrack by New York composer David Shea, the work demonstrates how the spectacle of world wide terrorism penetrates the security of our living rooms as nightly news.

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Melbourne,
AU Australia

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