Tag: Bill Viola

Leo Warner – interview: ‘If you put the technology first, you can end up with very hollow artwork’

Warner, design director of multimedia visual artists and impresarios 59 Productions talks about collaborative creativity, working across global as well as technical boundaries, sources of inspiration and how technology should always be subservient to the story
Bill Viola Retrospective

Bill Viola’s strength is in using the video camera to get under the viewer’s skin, peeling away what we think we know about reality. But now, it seems, he has been seduced by the technology of the medium, to the…
Alexandra Dementieva: ‘All art is an interactive game. I am offering the viewer an opportunity to take an active part in the work’

Don’t come to Alexandra Dementieva’s exhibition with the hope of being a passive spectator. As she explains, her aim is to draw the visitor in to her installations, to engage them in public performance
Bill Viola: ‘I was always interested in the inner life of the world around me’

Dealing with themes of life and death, human consciousness and emotional expression, the artist’s video art speaks to audiences across the globe. Here, he discusses his current exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Refraction: The Image of Sense

The internet and new technology have changed visual culture, and Peter Amdam, curator of Blain Southern’s latest show, has gathered a group of young artists to explore how art now operates, where the interface of human and non-human elements of…
The Space Where I Am

Blain Southern, London 17 July – 27 September 2014
A picture of ArtRio 2013: An invitation to think about Art Fairs

ArtRio 2013, Píer Mauá, Rio de Janeiro 5-8 September 2013
Bill Viola: Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures

Blain Southern, London 5 June–27 July 2013
Bill Viola: The Quintet of the Unseen

In Bill Viola’s piece The Quintet of the Unseen, exhibiting at Blain Southern, one can see a similar attention to detail as that which is apparent in the plays of Samuel Beckett. But where Beckett favours an austere set, Viola…
Bill Viola: The Passions

The National Gallery, London 22 October 2003—4 January 2004