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Happenstance (part one of many parts)
Happenstance (part one of many parts)

Happenstance (part one of many parts)

Date1982-1983
Maker Gary Hill American, born 1951
Object number2007.92
ProvenanceThe artist; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2007
Published ReferencesGary Hill: Selected Works and Catalogue Raisonné. Published: Cologne, Germany: DuMont Literatur und Kunst Verlag (2002), on the occasion of the exhibition Gary Hill. Selected Works at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, November 9, 2001 to March 10, 2002. Quasha, George, Charles Stein, "An Art of Limina Gary Hill's Works and Writings", Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona, 2009, various Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. "A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum." Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, illus. p. 122
Credit LineGift of the artist, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions6 min., 30 sec.
MediumSingle-channel black-and-white video, stereo sound
Photo by: Gary Hill
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Object number: 2007.89
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1984
Object number: 2007.90
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1980
Object number: 2007.91
2016
Object number: 2017.5
Photo by: Rayne Wilder
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1993, refabricated 2007
Object number: 96.10
Harun Farocki
2009-2010
Object number: 2012.12.1
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2009-2010
Object number: 2012.12.2
Harun Farocki
2009-2010
Object number: 2012.12.3
Harun Farocki
2009-2010
Object number: 2012.12.4