Bill Viola
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Directing · Born 1951-01-25 · age 75 · Queens, New York, USA
A pioneer in the medium of video art, Bill Viola's work explores the spiritual and perceptual side of human experience. Since 1970 he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances and pieces for television. Works include Hatsu Yume (First Dream), The Passing, and installations Room for St. John of the Cross, The Messenger and The Quintet of the Astonished, recently shown at the National Gallery, London in "Encounters, New Art from Old". A 25-year survey exhibition of his work organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art recently traveled to 6 institutions in the USA and Europe. MacArthur Fellow.
Titles
Return
The Reflecting Pool
The Passing
Ancient of Days
Anthem
Chott el-Djerid (A Portrait in Light and Heat)
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like
Migration (for Jack Nelson)
Hatsu Yume (First Dream)
Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House
Sweet Light
The Voyage
Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Under a Waterfall)
Angel's Gate
Guadalcanal Requiem
Fire Woman
A Phrase from Chris
The Space Between the Teeth
Playing Soul Music to My Freckles So They Won't Get Lonely
A Non-Dairy Creamer
Déserts
The Path
Ocean Without a Shore
Emergence
Reverse Television - Portraits of Viewers
The Crossing
Information
Going Forth By Day
The Stopping Mind
Moonblood
Silent Life
Slowly Turning Narrative
The Veiling
The Nantes Triptych
The Raft
The Greeting
Songs of Innocence
The Semi-Circular Canals
Red Tape: Collected Works
Heaven and Earth
Surrender
Inverted Birth
Man Searching for Immortality/Woman Searching for Eternity
Three Women
The Dreamers
The Tristan Project
Fire Birth
The Crossing
Memory Surfaces and Mental Prayers
Martyrs
He Weeps for You
Eternal Return
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
The Encounter
The Sleepers
Catherine's Room
Anima
Four Hands
The Quintet of the Astonished
Ablutions