Artists: Susan Hiller 1960-2019

Suggested in A2 BOW Feedback: Susan Hiller – e.g. Punch and Judy (7 March 1940 – 28 January 2019)

(Gosh, I am annoyed I missed Hiller’s work which was being exhibited in London until recently.)

https://www.artrabbit.com/events/susan-hiller-ghost-tv

From the above video

• “translations of phenomena of light”
• “translating into something we can perceive” (see Donald Hoffman’s theory)
• “science has gone beyond this” (dualism between rational and irrational) – I so agree and want this in my work somehow
• “we spend an enourmous amount of time dreaming and that is beyond reason”
• “committed to looking at things which are not acknowledged or ridiculed  – a whole range of things like this”

From

• Also interested in the way cinema has replaced religion (I have been so interested in how the cinema is making the same stories as we have seen in mythology)
• She is interested in the devices of cinema and how they communicate the magical, magical, non-rational
• Think Hiller’s work is extremely relevant for me
• The Clinic piece is “very austere, very difficult, and challenging” which relies entirely on people’s imagination and willingness to engage.
• belief in rationality is a belief system
• looks at the commodification of spirituality
• looks at social world
• difference between subject matter (e.g. apples) and content (about other things)
• people get diverted by the subject matter and don’t reflect on the content
•  different relationships between sense and modality  – sees this as a possibility
• voice is body
• work today is heavily influenced by the 70s
• See 19.16 mins to see moving image and object installed
• I’m only at the sketchbook stage, she ends her interview with

I love what I have seen of this work so far.