SUSAN HILLER
Witness
Susan Hiller’s new installation uses spoken tales of the supernatural to strangely moving effects.
The Daily Telegraph
People see strange things. Lights in the sky, mysterious phenomena, visions and visitations – things they can’t explain but know they saw. Susan Hiller has been collecting stories of these sighting for years. Some of them are prosaic and descriptive. Others are visionary and marvelling. All of them are facts.
Hundreds of first hand witness accounts were brought together through years of research, and were incorporated in Susan Hiller’s ambitious sound installation. In Witness, Hiller invites us to explore the area where rational systems of explaining things no longer seem to hold.
The publication, which is presented as the artist’s Witness research file, contains a large selection of the original witness statements, as well as a selection of Hiller’s personal notes, sketches and drawings on the work as it developed. To seduce the reader into envisaging the visions of others, the book comes with a selection of nearly 50 spoken statements on a CD.
ISBN 1 902201 09 4
270 x 185 mm
Aluminium hard back with CD (60 minutes)
88pp., 8pp. colour images and 15 pp. b/w images
price £ 19.95
order no: AA 10
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