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Hill, Gary
U.S. (1951 - )
Wall Piece
2000
Single-channel video installation with strobe light (color, with sound); Duration: 7 :34 minutes
Variable
Gift of William and Ruth True
FA 2007.67
Keywords: Human figure (male); Performance art; Portrait (self); Northwest artist: Washington, Seattle
In Wall Piece, a work that combines rigorous body-oriented performance art with aspects of conceptual art and minimalism, Gary Hill recorded himself repeatedly hurling his body against a wall. With each impact intensely brilliant light strobes, dramatically illuminating the artist’s body. When installed, the video is projected on a wall and lit with another strobe that flashes approximately 60 times per minute, going in and out of sync with the recorded strobe. With each physical exertion the artist utters a single word. Word by painful word the utterances come together to comprise an unusual meditation on the persistence of doubt in human existence. -- Label copy for Vortexhibition Polyphonica: Opus I, October 3, 2009 to February 9, 2010.
Copyright credit: Copyright Gary Hill (2000)
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