 In a project initiated and curated by the Experimental Art Foundation, Susan Hiller exhibited and was artist in residence at the EAF , Adelaide, during the Telstra Adelaide Festival. SUSAN HILLER is an American born artist currently based in the U.K. and over the last twenty five years has developed a complex and multi-media practice that has established her as one of today's most significant artists. In 1986 the ICA London mounted a major survey, and in 1996 the Tate Galley Liverpool mounted a mid-career retrospective of her work, in the same year she was in residence at the Dia Art Foundation New York. Thinking About Art: Conversations with Susan Hiller was published in 1995 by Manchester University Press. Susan Hiller exhibited two major works at the Experimental Art Foundation. (February the 26th to March the 29th 1998): Wild Talents - a video and sound installation that works specifically with childhood themes: the unpredictablilty and threat of spontaneous unfocussed special abilities such as telekinesis or precognition, ‘wild talents ‘that, in a different context could be understood as traditional aspects of mystical religious experience. The work consists of two dramatic wall size projections using separate but paired images as well as a separate video component which combine to generate a work and space that startlingly questions the meanings of deviant experiences and knowleges as well as interrogating the nature of faith, the ways we understand belief and exploring our need for myth and fable. From The Freud Museum an installation drawn from her residency at the Freud Museum London. The work consists of a large number of objects in boxes that are presented in a series of museum vitrines each box represents a combination of objects that are 'rubbish, discards fragments and repreoductions which seemed to carry an aura of memory and hint at meaning something' the installation invites us to tease out links and meanings, sequences and gaps, in generating the meaning and strong poetry of the work. |
In conjunction with the Experimental Art Foundation
Adelaide:
and steming from her residency and the exhibition From The Freud Museum
Susan Hiller has created a small web project:
Whilst in Australia Susan Hiller was in conversation about her work.
ART GALLERY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Tuesday 17 February 1.15pm with Richard Grayson
EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION
Monday 2 March 6.00pm with Richard Grayson
Melbourne:
AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
Wednesday 4 March 6.00pm with Anne Marsh
Sydney:
ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Friday 6 March 6.30pm
'From a Cave Home' 5 March to 4 April 1998
Susan Hiller at the CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
contact CCP ccp@werple.net.au
The Project has been made possible through the support of the Visual Arts Crafts Board of the Australia Council the Federal Governments funding body for the Arts, the British Council, the Telstra Adelaide Festival, Arts SA and Living Health.
1 Introduction
2 gallery documentation WILD TALENTS
3 gallery documentation FROM FREUD MUSEUM
4 WEB PROJECT
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