To Touch the Other:: A story of Corpo-electrontic Surfaces
The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, 2002, pp. 48-61, 130-141
New York: Routledge press, 2002
This article explores the video art of Bill Viola and Mona Hatoum with the hypothesis: Video can take a tactile approach to a surface reduces the distance between the filmed body and viewer. Or rather, the hypothesis is investigated through the work of Viola and Hatoum and their varying approaches to the tactile: one whose work displays a frontier in which to explore the self through the other, and the second an attempted transformation of body (the other) into surface.
ITEM 2002.098 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Passage (1987) – Bill Viola
Heaven and Earth (1992) – Bill Viola
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House (1982) – Bill Viola
Changing Parts (1984) – Mona Hatoum
In Measures of Distance (1988) – Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum
Corps étranger (1994)