DARA BIRNBAUM

Tiananmen Square: Break-In Transmission, 1990

Five-channel color video, four-channel stereo sound, surveillance switcher and custom-designed support system

Dimensions variable

Installation view at S.M.A.K.- Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, 2009

Courtesy of the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York / Paris / London

Photo credit and Copyright: Dara Birnbaum

Tiananmen Square Installation

An installation photo of artist Dara Birnbaum’s five-channel video artwork “Tiananmen Square: Break-In Transmission,” from 1990. A figure clad in all black stands in the middle of a large, brightly-lit white room with light oak floors. The figure looks at a square screen inset into the wall directly in front of them. Around the room, other screens and speakers of various sizes hang down from the ceiling in a random configuration.

Cite this article as: , "Tiananmen Square Installation," in VoCA Journal, April 10, 2018, http://journal.voca.network/rewind/tianammensquareinstallatiosmak1_1400px/.