Historical Records is a collection of commercially produced vinyl records that documents recorded political events of the twentieth century. The collection contains over 700 LP’s of speeches and interviews of those who were in power, others who objected to this power, of war and peace agreements, human rights struggles, and other radio broadcasts of the events that shaped history from the invention of the phonograph to the fall of the Berlin wall. The project examines how recorded political events turned into a commodity, and what role sound documentation has in the interplay between personal and collective/national memory.
Dani Gal, Historical Records, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, 2024
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland. The Future of History 2015
Private Offices, New York, 2016
Kunsthalle Schirn Power To The People, 2018
Kunsthalle Schirn Power To The People, 2018
Installation view, Dani Gal, Historical Records, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, 2024