Johan Grimonprez
dal 19/4/2002 al 9/6/2002
Segnalato da
19/4/2002
Johan Grimonprez
Santa Monica Museum of Art SMMoA, Santa Monica
How Do We Know the Sky Isn’t Really Green and We’re just Colorblind? This quotation, found on the title page of Inflight magazine and taken from Bart Simpson's Guide to Life, sets the uncertain tone for Johan Grimonprez's investigation into the history of sky-jacking and its interpretation, mythologizing, and manipulation by the media over the past thirty years.
How Do We Know the Sky Isn’t Really Green and We’re just Colorblind?
Project Room at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
"How Do We Know the Sky Isn't Really Green and We're just
Colorblind"? This quotation, found on the title page of INFLIGHT
magazine and taken from Bart Simpson's Guide to Life, sets the
uncertain tone for Johan Grimonprez's investigation into the history
of sky-jacking and its interpretation, mythologizing, and
manipulation by the media over the past thirty years.
Emulating
conventional airline magazines this publication-complete with
sick bag, safety instructions, and flight routes-replaces the usual
contents of city profiles and shopping specials with a profusion of
carefully selected articles and interviews about terrosim.
To insure your comfort while reading INFLIGHT (copies of which
are available for you to take home just ask one of our friendly
attendants) Grimonprez will create an environment reminiscent of
an airport lounge, complete with television monitors, coffee tables,
and extra wide seating. Videos of disaster movies, documentaries,
and art films including "Dial History, 1997" - Grimonprez's
sensational and brilliant study of sky-jacking - will be available for
your viewing pleasure.
INFLIGHT and Grimonprez's selected video library will have its
debut on the West Coast at the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
More notably, this is its first incarnation since the terrorist acts
that brought down the World Trade Center towers on September
11, 2002. In light of the current climate of heightened airport
security, fear of flying, and an ongoing aerial war, this lounge will
provide a compelling space in which to contemplate the complex
political, emotional, and artistic issues generated in the work.
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Building G1
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday: 11am to 6pm
Sunday: 12pm to 5 pm