You wrote back in March 2019 the following crescendo to a long (too long) post called Echo is Golden (Sharjah Biennial 14 Remix): When I left the ice-rink, Sharjah, the airport and returned home, I didn’t know how to keep my experience from fading into the air of routine, teaching and everyday life. I definitely […]
Marcus Gammel: What was the first record you found for your collection, and why did you buy it back then? Dani Gal: The first record I found was the “Victory Album” of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the so called Six-Day-War. So many copies of it were printed that you can still find them in most […]
This is the date that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus for white passengers. I grew up in a racist environment of family, friends, and culture in Houston TX, never feeling right about it. So the action of Rosa Parks resonated strongly with me and changed my world.
While waiting at the Dubai International Airport after three whirlwind days at the opening of Sharjah Biennial 14 (hereafter SB14), I found myself idly looking back over my Instagram posts from the exhibition. Even though I had taken hundreds of photographs, videos and audio recordings of my experience at the exhibition, I had only shared […]
When you took this photograph of Pauline’s Solo did it make you wish that you had spoken with Pauline Oliveros in person, either before she died in November 2016 or afterwards in the underworld as a dialogue of the dead? Would you have addressed her by her first name? Would you have asked her about […]
