Damage Control Artwork Screenings
Three hijacked jets on desert airstrip, Amman, Jordan, September 12, 1970. Still from Johan Grimonprez’s Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1997. Courtesy of zap-o-matik & Sean Kelly, New York
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Programs begin at 11 am and 2 pm
Ring Auditorium
An extension of the exhibition Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, these screenings feature moving-image works beyond those in the Second Level galleries.
Program I:
Bruce Conner, CROSSROADS, 1976
35mm restored print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive
36 minutes
Johan Grimonprez, Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1997
68 minutes
Program II:
Cyprien Gaillard, Pruitt-Igoe Falls, 2009
7 minutes
Ant Farm, Media Burn, 1975
23 minutes
SUPERFLEX, Burning Car, 2008
11 minutes
Christian Jankowski, 16mm Mystery, 2004
5 minutes
Doug Aitken, House, 2010
9 minutes
All screenings are in the Ring Auditorium. Admission is free, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Films may contain adult content. Visitors requesting accessibility services, such as a sign-language interpreter, should contact Kristy Maruca at 202.633.2796 or marucak@si.edu. Please try to give two weeks’ notice.
Members at the Inner Circle ($500) level and above may reserve two seats per public program at the Museum. To check on the status of your membership or to RSVP, please email hirshhornevents@si.edu or call 202.633.2836.
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950 is organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, in association with Mudam Luxembourg and Universalmuseum Joanneum/Kunsthaus Graz. The exhibition received major funding from the Terra Foundation for American Art and is also made possible through generous support from Kathryn Gleason and Timothy Ring; John and Mary Pappajohn; Melva Bucksbaum and Ray Learsy; John and Sue Wieland; Lewis and Barbara Shrensky; Marian Goodman Gallery, Inc.; Peggy and Ralph Burnet; the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia; Dani and Mirella Levinas; Barbara and Aaron Levine; the Broad Art Foundation; the Japan Foundation; David Zwirner, New York/London; the Embassy of Switzerland; and Home Front Communications.
