Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

Why Do Things Get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia)

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice in...

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Primarily Speaking

Primarily Speaking

This work is the single-channel version of a multi-channel installation of the same name. The picture plane is divided into a left and a right...

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Videograms

Videograms

1980-81, 13:27 min, b&w, sound Videograms is an ongoing series of text/image constructs or syntaxes using the Rutt/Etra Scan Processor, a device...

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Picture Story

Picture Story

“A structural work (with humor) that uses indeterminacy to forge an abstract landscape upon which the ‘vision’ of an ox appears. A sequence of...

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Figuring Grounds

Figuring Grounds

Figuring Grounds – like Tale Enclosure, 1985 – was edited from three hours of recordings made at the Stained Glass Studio in Barrytown, New York...

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Equal Time

Equal Time

In this work, the field of Hill’s experimentation is the synchronization of visual and linguistic elements. For Equal Time, he sets up a minimalist...

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Primary

Primary

The artist’s mouth fills the whole image plane. Silently the words “red,” “blue,” “green” are slowly and repeatedly articulated. The color of the...

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Observaciones Sobre los Colores

Observaciones Sobre los Colores

Observaciones Sobre los Colores consists of a single video projection in which a boy reads a Spanish translation of Wittgenstein's Remarks on Color...

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Bathing

Bathing

In Bathing, as in his Mirror Road, Windows and Objects with Destinations, Hill uses the camera and image processing devices to explore the...

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Earth Pulse

Earth Pulse

A humanoid form strikes its body while making primal guttural sounds. At times the form is “stopped” and “started” using the pause of a...

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Bits

Bits

Our visual field is dominated by gossamer layers that become distorted in fluid motion, break off, begin anew and continually change color. As we...

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Mesh

Mesh

A fixed color camera is slightly defocused on the wire mesh of a window screen. Outside the window the leaves of trees are moving with the wind...

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Tale Enclosure

Tale Enclosure

Returning to the primal source of language, Hill explores the physical and subconscious origins of speech. In a continuous shot of a rhythmic...

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Blind Spot

Blind Spot

Blind Spot constructs a space of living portraiture by “focusing time” on an exchange between the artist (the camera) and a man on the street in...

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Project Tesla

Project Tesla

This rarely screened film was used to raise funds for the making of Energy and How to Get It. High-energy physicist Robert Golka was granted a...

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Sums & Differences

Sums & Differences

The basis of this “sound/image construct,” recorded in real time, are three black-and-white still images: a keyboard, a flute, and an African drum....

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Mouthpiece

Mouthpiece

Dave Jones prototype modules (keyers, color field generators, output amplifier), black-and-white camera, microphone and Serge audio modules...

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Goats & Sheep

Goats & Sheep

Goats and Sheep uses the source material of the installation Withershins, 1995, consisting of two simultaneous views of a person signing: the hands...

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AXIS

AXIS

“I was thinking of the camera as a kind of archeological tool that I could use to dig into or slice through the landscape —one among many studies...

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The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment

The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment

The Psychedelic Gedankenexperiment is a declaration claiming the psychoactive event of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) as a "found performance"...

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