#paraconceptual

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Susan Hiller, The Last Silent Movie, 2007. 

Lenape, 46.25 x 51.5 cm. 

Courtesy the British Council & Timothy Taylor Gallery (London) / Photo Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid

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Susan Hiller (1940 – January 28, 2019) 

"Night Waves", 2009,

9 Archival digital prints

Each: 20 x 30 1/4 in. / 50.8 x 76.7 cm

Framed: 20 3/4 x 31 in. / 52.7 x 78.5 cm

Galerie Karin Sachs

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#tobiaswong This Is a Lamp, 2001. Join us tonight @bgsqd 3/21 7:45 pm for Paradesign: The Work of Tobias Wong, A Panel Discussion moderated by designer, curator, and gallery director Olivia Shao, with Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Rama Chorpash, Associate Professor and the Director of Product Design at Parsons The New School for Design. @paolantonelli @themuseumofmodernart @parsonsschoolofdesign @parsonsproductdesign #paradesign #paraconceptual #phillipestarck #readymade #appropriation #cheeky (at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division) https://www.instagram.com/bgsqd/p/BvRomFbl9-O/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e2j2uyg91idy

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  'Hiller conducts investigations into the hidden meanings of everyday objects such as popular postcards, monument plaques and photobooth portraits. She is intrigued by the unspoken and the unrecorded and her work reflects the gaps and the overlaps between time and space, dreams and experience.' (Tate)

“To enquire, and to transform,” these are the leitmotifs that run throughout Hiller’s oeuvre over a 30 year period, according to curator James Lingwood, who continues, “In a remarkably consistent way, Hiller has sustained an open-ended enquiry into the elusive nature of our selves, the forces at work in the making and re-making of subjectivity and its potential for transformation.” (Timothy Taylor)

'Each of Susan Hiller’s works is based on specific cultural artifacts from our society, which she uses as basic materials. Many of her works explore the liminality of certain phenomena including the practice of automatic writing , near death experiences, and collective experiences of unconscious, subconscious and paranormal activity.

In describing this area of Hiller’s work, art historian Dr. Alexandra Kokoli draws attention to its palpable political subtext: “Hiller’s work unearths the repressed permeability ... of ... unstable yet prized constructs, such as rationality and consciousness, aesthetic value and artistic canons. Hiller refers to this precarious positioning of her oeuvre as 'paraconceptual,' just sideways of conceptualism and neighbouring the paranormal, a devalued site of culture where women and the feminine have been conversely privileged. Most interestingly, in the hybrid field of 'paraconceptualism,' neither conceptualism nor the paranormal are left intact ... as ... the prefix 'para' -symbolizes the force of contamination through a proximity so great that it threatens the soundness of all boundaries.' (Susan Hiller website)