This tragic and still partially unexplained accident, which cost officially 43 people their lives and injured many, opened a Pandora’s box in the Dutch political arena – the secret transport of weapons of mass destruction, the erasure of sequences from the airplane’s black box, and mysterious diseases are only some of the scandals that came to light through the media after the airplane crash happened. For Chanting Down Babylon, the Israeli artist Dani Gal visited residents in the Bijlmermeer district, in particular migrants from Suriname and Africa, as well as the journalist Vincent Dekker, in order to enter into dialogue with them about the airplane crash and about their afterwards reconstructed daily life in the rebuilt residential complex.
Opening
24/09/2010 - 20.00