Thinking about Art: Conversations with Susan Hiller

Abstract

Part 1 Inside all activities - the artist as anthropologist: art and anthropology, anthropology and art an artist looks at ethnographic exhibitions dedicated to the unknown artist. Part 2 Within and against - women being artists: I don't care what it's called women, language and truth looking at new work a portrait of the artist in a photomat reflections O'Keeffe as I see her. Part 3 Fragments of a forgotten language - automatism, dream, collective reveries: Belshazzar's feast/the writing on your wall abstract fire theory and art the dream and the word the word and the dream. Part 4 Working through culture - conventions of seeing: thirteen male absences the idea of multiplicity in art notes for a conference on postmodernism an audience for art. Part 5 Objects as events extended over time - the nature of representation: duration and boundaries collaborative meaning - art as experience slow motion. Part 6 Art and knowledge - a critique of empiricism: it is all not really available for us anymore working through objects secret practices on display. Appendices: sacred circles.

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