Susan Hiller
dal 28/4/2004 al 18/7/2004
Segnalato da
28/4/2004
Susan Hiller
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Recall - A Selection of Works 1969-2004. a major exhibition by artist Susan Hiller. Constituting the most wide-ranging survey of Hiller s work in a career which spans over 30 years, the exhibition combines many of her most prominent installations alongside a major new BALTIC commission, Clinic.
BALTIC presents a major exhibition by Susan Hiller Recall - A Selection of Works 1969-2004 Saturday 1 May - Sunday 18 July 2004 Ground floor, Level 3 & 4 art spaces
BALTIC presents a major exhibition by artist Susan Hiller. Constituting the most wide-ranging survey of Hiller s work in a career which spans over 30 years, the exhibition combines many of her most prominent installations alongside a major new BALTIC commission, Clinic.
Presented for the first time in BALTIC s Level 4 art space, Clinic is an audio installation which takes as its subject matter, personal accounts from individuals who believe they have had a near death experience . Hiller s interest does not lie in advocating or disputing the anecdotal or scientific evidence for or against the reality of these experiences, but in regarding them as social facts. Clinic incorporates a remarkable archive of vivid stories from many individuals across a wide range of cultural backgrounds, which are metaphors, misperceptions, myths, delusions or the truth.
This solo show also includes a number of the artist s major works, from the early video installation Belshazaar s Feast, 1983-4 - (one of the first artists films to be broadcast on British television) - and colour projection work Magic Lantern, 1987, through to more recent installations which investigate paranormal phenomena - Wild Talents, 1998 and Witness, 2000. Recall - A Selection of Works 1969-2004 is guest curated by James Lingwood.
Susan Hiller was born in the USA and has lived and worked in London since the early 1970 s where she became well-known for her innovative and influential practice in a wide range of media, from drawing to video installation. Her work can be seen as an excavation of overlooked, ignored, or rejected aspects of our shared cultural production, and her varied projects have been described as investigations into the unconscious of culture. Susan Hiller s work has been exhibited extensively both in the UK and abroad.
The exhibition is accompanied by a major new publication, co-produced by Museu Serralves, Porto and Kunsthalle Basel and edited by James Lingwood. Exhibitions of Susan Hiller s work will be shown in these venues from November 2004 - January 2005 and February - April 2005 respectively.
Image: Susan Hiller, Witness, 2000Susan Hiller, Witness, 2000
Photo: P Taghizadeh (c) Artangel
Press Preview, Thursday 29 April 2004
Preview, Friday 30 April 2004
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Thursday: 10.00 - 22.00; Sunday: 10.00 - 17.00
Last entry is half an hour before closing
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