Bill Viola Lectures at Anderson Ranch Arts Centre
( In particularly -45:20 minutes )
‘The Chapel of Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures’
The last film Viola shows in this lecture in particular called ‘The Chapel of Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures’, is a 9 monitor installation examining and raises typical and routine aspects that people will do in their lives; and then, as Viola puts it - ‘all the things we have to do, that when we’re done with them, we have to do it again’. Digging a grave, leaving the house to go to work, giving a neighbour a gift, making a mess and cleaning it up, violence and harmony.
The fact that the video is in real time makes the visual even more relatable for the viewer; this repetition that is exaggerated in this work is what I want to create and indent in the viewer.
