SUSAN HILLER

 

I am particularly interested in Hiller's thoughts and works around the idea of narrative and expereince and the human commitment to trying to assign a narrative or representation to everything – see her work Channels.

 

She believes that things fall into patterns and people talk about things in similar ways because they are trying to make a narrative out of something that doesn't necessarily have a beginning/middle/end. Hiller suggests that these patterns arise due to culturally inflected interpretations of non-linear experiences.

 

Hiller's explorations into different modalities of the senses is also key to my work. In works like Witness and Clinic she questions the dominance of vision and the overlooked power of hearing and speech. Voice is always your body and hearing penetrates the body.