Hiller collects objects, images,writings and incorporates subconscious processes in her work.You can clearly sense she has been influenced by psychoanalytic genius FREUD, who studied the subconscious.A lot of her work includes dreaming, reverie and automatic writing.
these are the pieces I thought were brilliant and most relevant
I liked Freud Museum and Hand Grenades because both these pieces were relics.
Hand Grenade were ashes of paintings she had put in 12 glass jars and Freud Museum was an ecletic collection of objects that had been carefully exhibited in wooden boxes.
Dream mapping was one of my favourite, because it was about making art through dreams and visually recording them.
" Hiller conducted " group investigation" projects in 1970s where participants met to discuss and document their dreams and subconscious interaction. For Dream Mapping 1974 the group slept outdoors in "fairy rings" circles formed by mushrooms considered in legend to be entrances to fairy-land. They recorded their dreams noting similarities and differences through collective dream maps, taking the individual diagrams and superimposing them.The maps document the event and process of making art through dreaming."
This a still from the Susan Hiller short movie an entertainment.It highlights the violence and haunting nature of children's entertainment
Also,her hand made books were beautiful and pure.
Witness transmits 2000 testimonies of people having had an ecounter with UFOs or creatures from other spheres.The Tate leaflet describes it as a "religious experience"
What I take away from this experience is the idea that it doesn't matter whether or not the testimonies are a real or simply hallucinations- or even REVERIES. They show it is an essential need to believe in the possibility of other worlds, of something beyond rational.
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