Questions of Hans Ulrich Obrist to JOHAN GRIMONPREZ via e-mail "Zap-titudes" Director of the internationally acclaimed film & video projects 'dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y', 1997 and 'Kobarweng or Where is your helicopter?', 1992. Together with filmcritic Herman Asselberghs, he curated the mobile video-lounge 'Beware! In playing the phantom, you become one', 1994-1997. His work has been part of numerous exhibitions, events & festivals around the world, including Documenta X, (Kassel). Johan Grimonprez studied at the School of Visual Arts and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. Presently on a DAAD grant in Berlin, while researching a new film project on 'Happy Endings'. |