Exploring links between image, text and sound
Catch internationally renowned American artist and video pioneer Gary Hill's take on the links between image, text and sound when he speaks at Christchurch Art Gallery. His free lecture is being held at the Philip Carter Family Auditorium on Monday, March 2 at 5.30pm.
Gary Hill is in New Zealand to present an exhibition at St Paul St Gallery at the Auckland University of Technology. A related exhibition will open at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu in late May.
Born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California, Hill is regarded as one of the most inventive and important video artists of our time.
He has twice received the Guggenheim Fellowship, participated several times at documenta and was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1995.
Hill has held numerous solo exhibitions in prominent art institutions around the world, including SoHo Guggenheim, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Sprengel Museum, Hanover; Museo Ceralves, Porto; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Tate Liverpool; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and many others.
This talk is presented by Christchurch Art Gallery, The Physics Room and The Arts Centre, Christchurch. In association with St Paul St Gallery, Auckland.
Image: (detail) Gary Hill Wall Piece 2000. Single channel video/sound installation. Courtesy the artist and Donald Young Gallery, San Francisco
Press release: Christchurch City Council
01/03/09
