Gary Hill
Gary Hill (born in 1951, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) is an American artist who lives and works in Seattle, Washington.
An anthology on the work of Gary Hill by Robert C. Morgan was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999. One of the pioneers of video art, Gary Hill has exhibited his video and video installations worldwide (Artfacts 2007).
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Gary Hill's work is especially significant due to his incorporation of text in video art, evident in works such as Incidence of Catastrophe 1987-88. Hill began working with video, text and sound in 1973. He was influenced by the intellectual orientation of conceptual art which dominated art of the 1970s. His reading of the writings of Maurice Blanchot, in particular, provided him with ideas relating to the way in which language impinges on phenomenological experience, and a notion of 'the other' stemming from the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas. Such reading informs Hill's visual-poetic explorations of the interrelationships between language, image, identity, and the body. For example in Cabin Fever he uses the binary opposition of light and darkness to convey the notion of an interaction between a self and an ‘other’.[1] He has also explored immersive environments, as seen in his 1992 piece Tall Ships. Hill's work thoroughly exploits the capacity of video to offer complex nonlinear narratives that encourage active engagement on the part of the viewer. In Roland Barthes' terms, Hill’s video narratives can be understood as ‘writerly’ texts.
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[edit] Selected bibliography
- Quasha, George and Charles Stein. An Art of Limina: Gary Hill’s Works and Writings. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 2009. Foreword by Lynne Cooke.
- Ramos, María Elena. Gary Hill. Caracas: Centro Cultural Chacao, 2009.
- Gary Hill / Gerry Judah. Paris: Somogy Publishers / LTB Holding, Ltd., 2007.
- In French : Paul-Emmanuel Odin, L’absence de livre [ Gary Hill et Maurice Blanchot – Écriture, vidéo], France, Les presses du réel, 2007
- Gary Hill: Resounding Arches / Archi Risonanti. (Catalogue and DVD.) Rome: Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali Soprintendenza archeologica di Roma, and Milan: Mondadori Electa S.p.A., 2005.
- Gary Hill: Scritti / Interviste. Milan: Mondadori Electa S.p.A., 2005.
- Mind on the Line: Gary Hill, George Quasha, Charles Stein, Aaron Miller and Dorota Czerner. Wroclaw: WRO Art Center, 2004.
- Unfolding Vision: Gary Hill, Selected Works 1976–2003. Taipei: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003.
- Barro, David. Gary Hill: Poeta da percepção, poet of perception, poeta de la percepción. Porto: Mimesis, 2003.
- Quasha, George. Gary Hill: Language Willing. Barrytown, NY: further/art and Boise: Boise Art Museum, 2002.
- Broeker, Holger, ed. Gary Hill: Selected Works and catalogue raisonné. Wolfsburg: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2002.
- Gary Hill: Around & About: A Performative View. Paris: Éditions du Regard, 2001, and Limited Edition (Edition of 100, plus 20 artist’s proofs; signed and numbered).
- McAlear, Donna, ed. Gary Hill. Winnipeg: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2001.
- Gary Hill: The Performative Image. Tokyo: Gary Hill Exhibition Committee, 2001, unpaginated.
- Morgan, Robert C., ed. Gary Hill. Baltimore: PAJ Books / The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
- Gary Hill: Instalaciones. Córdoba: Ediciones Museo Caraffa, 2000.
- Gary Hill en Argentina: textos, ensayos, dialogos. Buenos Aires: Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2000.
- Gary Hill: Video Works. Tokyo: NTT InterCommunication Center, 1999.
- Kold, Anders, ed. Gary Hill. Aarhus: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 1999.
- Gary Hill: Midnight Crossing. Warsaw: Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, 1998.
- Ceruti, Mary. Gary Hill: 23:59:59:29 – The Storyteller’s Room. San Francisco: Capp Street Project, 1998.
- Gary Hill: HanD HearD – Withershins – Midnight Crossing. Barcelona: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 1998.
- Bélisle, Josée. Gary Hill. Montreal: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 1998.
- Gary Hill: Midnight Crossing. Münster: Westfälischer Kunstverein, 1997.
- o lugar do outro/where the other takes place. Rio de Janeiro: Magnetoscópio, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 1997.
- Quasha, George and Charles Stein. Viewer: Gary Hill’s Projective Installations—Number 3. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Arts, 1997.
- Quasha, George and Charles Stein. Tall Ships: Gary Hill’s Projective Installations—Number 2. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Arts, 1997.
- Quasha, George and Charles Stein. Gary Hill: Hand Heard - Liminal Objects. Paris: Galerie des Archives, and Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Arts, 1996.
- Vischer, Theodora, ed. Gary Hill: Imagining the Brain Closer than the Eyes. Basel: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Ostfildern: Cantz, 1995.
- Gary Hill: Tall Ships, Clover. Stockholm: Riksutställningar, 1995.
- Thériault, Michèle. Gary Hill. Selected videotapes 1978–1990. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1994, unpaginated.
- Bruce, Chris, ed. Gary Hill. Seattle: Henry Art Gallery, 1994.
- Gary Hill: In Light of the Other. Oxford: The Museum of Modern Art Oxford and Liverpool: Tate Gallery Liverpool, 1993.
- Gary Hill: Sites Recited. Long Beach, California: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1993.
- Gary Hill. Valencia: I.V.A.M. Centre del Carme, 1993.
- Gary Hill. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum and Vienna: Kunsthalle, Wien, 1993.
- Van Assche, Christine. Gary Hill. Paris: Editions du Centre Georges Pompidou, 1992.
- Gary Hill: I Believe It Is an Image. Tokyo: Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992.
- Gary Hill, Video Installations. Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, 1992.
- Sarrazin, Stephen. Chimaera Monographe No. 10 (Gary Hill). Montbéliard: Centre International de Création Vidéo Montbéliard, Belfort, 1992.
- Gary Hill: Between Cinema and a Hard Place. Paris: OCO, Espace d'Art Contemporain, 1991.
- Gary Hill: And Sat Down Beside Her. Paris: Galerie des Archives, 1990.
- OTHERWORDSANDIMAGES: Video by Gary Hill. Copenhagen: Video Gallerie/Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 1990.
- Gary Hill: DISTURBANCE (among the jars). Villeneuve d'Ascq: Musée d'Art Moderne, 1988.
[edit] External links
- Gary Hill's profile and selected videos on Vimeo
- Gary Hill on artnet
- Gary Hill in the Video Data Bank
- An intelligent review of Hill's Between Cinema and a Hard Place by S. Brent Plate, originally published in Criticism, Winter 2003.
- 'Image, Body, Text' exhibition at the SFMOMA
- SFMOMA interactive multimedia feature on Gary Hill
- Gary Hill in the Mediateca Media Art Space
- Gary Hill biography on Media Art Net
[edit] Notes
- ^ Donald Young Gallery: New Installation Works at the Donald Young Gallery in Chicago, January 2007
