Dani Gal

Dani Gal’s sound, film and slide installations manipulate the original narrative logic and address
the difference between the “truth” of collective memory conveyed by media and subjective feelings.
Many of Gal’s performances and elaborately produced films are based on the re-enactment
of an political events by professional actors, like the film “Nacht und Nebel“ shown at the 54th
Biennale in Venice. Dani Gal’s specific way of dealing with oral narration is also reflected in his
collection of long-playing records with historical speeches of the most various politicians and
radio broadcasts now comprising more than 500 records. Not seldom combined with the propaganda
of dictatorial regimes, these kinds of records were a popular medium up until the 1980s
for disseminating political and historical contents.

Submitted by Kadel Willborn