Critical Writing Index

Between Cinema and a Hard Place: Gary Hill's Video Art Between Words and Images

by Brent Plate

Criticism, Winter 2003, v. 45, no. 1, pp. 108-127

Through a close analytical look at a single installation by Gary Hill, Between Cinema and a Hard Place, the author tries to find answers to questions of aesthetic, as well as technological boundaries of video art. He argues that Hill's video language, coming both from visual as well as non-visual artistic fields -- philosophy, poetry, television and film -- allows video art to transcend the normative classifications of art history.

ITEM 2003.147 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Between Cinema and a Hard PlaceGary Hill

Martin Heidegger

Julia Kristeva

Nam June Paik

Gregory Battcock

Dan Graham

Jacques Derrida

Michel Foucault