1984 and Beyond (2005–07)

Abstract

DOI Gerard Byrne’s 1984 and Beyond (2005–07) is a multi-media installation that includes a film produced at the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands. The project takes as its starting point an eponymous article published in 1963 in Playboy magazine, which featured a discussion between twelve science fiction writers. Dutch actors dressed in 1960s attire dramatize the original script, which is staged amidst the Barbara Hepworth sculptures in Gerrit Rietveld’s Sonsbeek Pavilion.

Keywords

• Kröller-Müller Museum
• Henry Moore
• Sonsbeek Pavilion
• Gerrit Rietveld
• Barbara Hepworth
• sculpture
• British art
• Playboy magazine