GARY HILL
Autor: Daniel Scandurra | Publicado: 2010-11-18T15:42:00-08:00

Sobre Gary Hill
Gary Hill (Califórnia, 1951) é um dos artistas que melhor compreendeu e mais habilmente soube promover a integração entre a arte e as novas tecnologias. Começou sua carreira como escultor para, nos anos 70, explorar as possibilidades do vídeo em Woodstock – numa época em que se discutia a descentralização da produção e a possibilidade da criação independente em comunidades alternativas -–, ele vem desenvolvendo uma constante e impactante obra. Também promove uma estimulante combinação de meios, na qual a comunicação com o espectador/participante é imediata.

http://www.vimeo.com/user2002575

“Logo depois de começar a trabalhar com mídias eletrônicas, eu me prendi  às aparentemente infinitas possibilidades da imagética eletrônica e me  senti desorientado diante da necessidade de delimitar meu campo para  fazer algo acontecer ao invés de assisti-lo acontecer”, afirma Gary  Hill. “Minha saída diante deste impasse foi usar meu corpo e sons da  fala primordialmente como expressão, mas também como um material que eu  poderia lançar contra estes sinais efêmeros e interferir na imagem e sua  maneira de estar sempre presente. Eu poderia dizer que me desprogramei  do culto à imagem que ainda continua a crescer diariamente”.

cronologia: http://www.zkm.de/futurecinema/hill_cv_e.html
bio: http://garyhill.com/left/vita/biography 

(fonte: site do mis: http://mis-sp.org.br/icox/icox.php?mdl=mis&amp;op=programacao_interna&amp;id_event=503) e http://www.mis-sp.org.br/icox/icox.php?mdl=mis&amp;op=programacao_interna&amp;id_event=502)







http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuHVAlpY2I









1951 – 1968

Born April 4, 1951, in Santa Monica, California. Grows up in Redondo Beach, surfing and skateboarding. National skateboard champion in 1964; performs in the Cannes Film Festival-prize winner, Skaterdater. At 15 meets the artist Anthony Parks, who encourages him to take up welding and sculpture. Takes first dose of LSD. Stepfather builds him a small studio in the backyard.

1969

Moves to New York State and attends summer session at the Art Students League in Woodstock, New York. Supports himself with various odd jobs, mostly washing dishes.

1970 – 1972

Studies independently with the painter Bruce Dorfman. Encounters the work of composers La Monte Young (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ0-woVmTnk&amp;feature=related ,&nbsp; and Terry Riley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ0-woVmTnk&amp;feature=related e : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjR4QYsa9nE&amp;feature=fvw).






After seeing the “New York Painting and Sculpture 1940 – 1970” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, makes a series of mixed media constructions using copper [cobre] coated steel [aço revestido] welding rod, wire mesh, canvas and enamel. Experiments extensively with sound-generating steel rod constructions and electronically generated sounds.

First solo exhibition at the Polari Art Gallery in Woodstock, New York.


1973 – 1974

First group exhibition, “Artists from Upstate New York,” at 55 Mercer Gallery in New York City. Makes first video installation, Hole in the Wall, at the Woodstock Artists Association. Exhibits first videotapes at The Kitchen Center for Video and Music in New York.

1978 Creates first works dealing with the  speaking voice in relation to the image. Receives a Production Grant  from the New York State Council on the Arts, a Creative Artist Public  Service Fellowship, and the first of four National Endowment for the  Arts Fellowships.
1982 – 1983 Teaches at the summer graduate program at  Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

 
1984 Moves to Kamakura, Japan supported by a  Japan/U.S. Exchange Fellowship and there marries Katherine Bourbonais  (later separated). Returns to Barrytown, New York for the summer and  produces Why Do Things get in a Muddle? (Come On Petunia) with his wife and Charles Stein performing. 
1988 Completes Incidence of Catastrophe, also inspired by Blanchot’s Thomas the Obscure,  which receives first prize at the World Wide Video Festival in The  Hague and at the Montreal Independent Film and Video Festival.
1995 Receives the Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale.
2003Resides primarily in Paris and teaches at  École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, and Le Fresnoy Studio  national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France (2003 – 05).

2004Completes permanent installation of Astronomy by Day (and other oxymorons) for the Seattle Central Public Library, Seattle, Washington.http://www.seattle.gov/arts/publicart/permanent.asp?cat=5&amp;view=2&amp;img=0&amp;item=4 
more: http://garyhill.com/left/vita/biography
vídeo-poeta:

happenstance: http://www.vimeo.com/5509624