Temporal Interventions: The videotapes of Bill Viola
Afterimage, Summer 1982, v. 10, no. 1 & 2, pp. 28-31
Author Marita Sturken talks to artist Bill Viola and reviews his retrospective show which was held at the Whitney Museum in New York City in April 1982, and followed his return from an artist in residence stint with Sony Corporation at their Atsugi plant in Japan.
Viola's art deals largely with the central themes of human consciousness and experience and cycle - birth, death, love, emotion and a kind of humanist spirituality. An ongoing theme that Viola constantly explores is dualism, the idea that you can't understand what you're looking at unless you know its opposite. For example, a lot of his work has themes such as life and death, light and dark, stressed and calm, loud and quiet, etc.
ITEM 1982.067 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Hatsu-Yume / First Dream – Bill Viola
The Reflecting Pool – Bill Viola
Moonblood – Bill Viola
Bill Viola
Silent Life – Bill Viola
Ancient of Days – Bill Viola
Vegetable Memory – Bill Viola
Chott el Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat) – Bill Viola
Sweet Light – Bill Viola
The Morning After the Night of Power – Bill Viola
Truth through Mass Individuation – Bill Viola
The Space between the Teeth – Bill Viola
Migration