Critical Writing Index

Hostile Realities

by P.D Burwell

High Performance, 1985, v. 8, no. 30, pp. 91-92

Review of Mona Hatoum's video Changing Parts. Burwell looks at her piece as a construction of contradictions of order versus disorder, chaos and destruction. Changing Parts includes footage from Hatoum's native Beirut (Lebanon), music and images of her controversial installation (the artist inside a box smeared with mud).

ITEM 1985.042 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Changing PartsMona Hatoum

Under SiegeMona Hatoum