DOUGLAS GORDON (B. 1966)
Play Dead; Real Time (Other Way)
DVD and original Beta-master tape
installation dimensions variable
duration: 23 minutes and 44 seconds
Executed in 2003. This work is number four from an edition of seven.

Gagosian Gallery, New York
Private collection
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2006

R. Smith, "Art in Review; Douglas Gordon; Franz West," The New York Times, 7 March 2003.
P. Schjeldahl, "Europeanism," The New Yorker, 16 March 2003.
J. Saltz, "Elephant Man," The Village Voice, 25 March 2003.
M. Sundell, "Douglas Gordon," Artforum, May 2003.
M. Dunn, "Spotlight: Douglas Gordon," Flash Art, May-June 2003 (another example illustrated).
D. Birnbaum, "Douglas Gordon," Artforum, 1 May 2006, digital (another example illustrated).
F. Bonnet, "Douglas Gordon," Le Journal des Arts, no. 287, 2 October 2008.
T. Jamieson, "They Have Inspired the Biggest Names in Scottish Art. Meet the Mentors," The Herald, 8 October 2008, p. 21 (another example illustrated).
D. Birnbaum and J. Bettum, "The Space, Time and Conspiracy of Circumstance in Douglas Gordon's Work," SAC Journal, December 2013, p. 93-95 (another example illustrated).

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Play Dead; Real Time, February-March 2003.
Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Material Witness, January-April 2004 (another example exhibited).
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Douglas Gordon, February-May 2004 (another example exhibited).
Quebec, Shawinigan, La Cité de l'énergie, Noah's Ark, June-October 2004 (another example exhibited).
Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, What's New Pussycat?, March-July 2005 (another example exhibited).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Douglas Gordon: Timeline, June-September 2006 (another example exhibited).
Italy, Rovereto, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Prettymucheverywordwritten. Spoken. Heard. Overheard from 1989..., October 2006-January 2007 (another example exhibited).
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy Building, Superhumanatural, November 2006-January 2007 (another example exhibited).
Germany, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Between Darkness and Light, April 2007-August 2007 (another example exhibited).
Montreal, 10th Edition of the International Biennial of Photography, Explorations, Narratives, Replaying Narrative: Le mois de la photo à Montreal, September-October 2007 (another example exhibited).
France, La Collection Lambert en Avignon, Où se trouvent les clefs?, July-November 2008 (another example exhibited).
Canada, Regina, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Douglas Gordon: Play Dead; Real Time, October-December 2008 (another example exhibited).
Prague, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, blood.sweat.tears, June-September 2009 (another example exhibited).
Berlin, Schinkel Pavillon, Animal Kindgom: There Was an Only Lady Who..., March-April 2011 (another example exhibited).
Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Douglas Gordon, November 2011-March 2012 (another example exhibited).
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, I am also...Douglas Gordon, January-May 2013 (another example exhibited).
London, Tate Britain, ARTIST ROOMS: Douglas Gordon: Play Dead; Real Time, May-September 2013 (another example exhibited).
Mexico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, In/Human, July-November 2014 (another example exhibited).
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Days of Endless Time, October 2014-April 2015 (another example exhibited).
London, The Old Sorting Office, Here Today, November-December 2014 (another example exhibited).
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, June-September 2016 (another example exhibited).
New Zealand, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Douglas Gordon: Play Dead; Real Time, August 2016-February 2017 (another example exhibited).
Saudi Arabia, Jeddah Arts Initiative, Safar-4th edition 21, 39, February-May 2017 (another example exhibited).
Portugal, Azores, Centro de artes contemporaneas Arquipélago, Liquid Time-video works from the collection of Maria & Armando Cabral and Cal Cego, April-July 2017 (another example exhibited).
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Tiere: Respekt/Harmonie/Unterwerfung, November 2017-March 2018 (another example exhibited).
Düsseldorf, NRW Forum, Bauhaus und die Fotografie-zum neuen Sehen in der Gegenwartskunst, December 2018-March 2019 (another example exhibited).
Hong Kong, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Draw a circle twice: Selected video from the collection of Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, January 2019 (another example exhibited).
Denmark, Aarhus, ARoS Kunstmuseum, Douglas Gordon: In My Shadow, September 2019-February 2020 (another example exhibited).
Denmark, Ishøj, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Animals In Art, May 2020-January 2021 (another example exhibited).
Kunsthal Rotterdam, We Are Animals, February-October 2021 (another example exhibited).

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.