Bill Viola's Re-Visions of Mortality
High Performance, 1987, v. 10, no. 3, pp. 61-65
Writer Michael Nash and video artist Bill Viola discuss the nature of film and its ability to capture the nature of mortality. Challenging poetry's ability to portray absence within death Nash turns to Viola's work as "wordless visions" into eternity. Viola elaborate on how he utilizes the nuances of perception within his video work to distinguish the boundaries between subject and object, self and other which merge at the point of death.
ITEM 1987.076 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Chott el-Djerid – Bill Viola
I Do Not Know What I Am Like – Bill Viola
Hatsu Yume – Bill Viola
Stunned by the Drum – Bill Viola