This Living Room session will feature Steina Vasulka in conversation with Gary Hill, as they share stories, reflect on her 50 years on the forefront of video art, discuss the growing power of the image in society and in our psyches, and offer insights into the state of contemporary art. Steina and Gary also will take questions and thoughts from the audience.
Co-presented by SITE Santa Fe
This Living Room session will feature Steina Vasulka in conversation with Gary Hill, as they share stories, reflect on her 50 years on the forefront of video art, discuss the growing power of the image in society and in our psyches, and offer insights into the state of contemporary art. Steina and Gary also will take questions and thoughts from the audience.
About Steina:
Steina Vasulka devised novel, visionary modes of video art with innovate application of then-groundbreaking technology alongside husband and creative partner, Woody Vasulka (1937-2019). Their legendary and foundational works created conceptual and aesthetic ripples throughout the decades since the late ’60s. In 1971, she and Woody, alongside Andres Mannik, founded The Kitchen, a still-operational multi-discinplinary art and performance space. Her installations and videos have been shown worldwide.
About Gary Hill:
Gary Hill is a pioneering artist of new media and video work. His video works incorporate commentaries on society and culture as well as bringing in poetic themes and ideas. Hill considers video as a medium to be the most receptive, flexible, and far-reaching mirror of consciousness. He creates psychological spaces within his artworks that allow viewers to see this mirror of their own consciousness. His work has been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, SITE Santa Fe and many others. Hill has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and his awards include the Leone d’Oro Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award.
About the film:
Pioneers of video art, the Santa Fe-based couple Steina and Woody Vasulka are lifetime hackers, and heroes to a generation of unconventional artists. Some consider them the grandparents of the “YouTube” generation, thanks to their innovative videos with Andy Warhol, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Jethro Tull and Patti Smith. Director Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir follows the story of their struggles in their retirement years to archive their body of work, and how they are, by a fluke, rediscovered by the art world that had forgotten them. People and institutions are all of a sudden fighting over who will represent them when they are gone. (Iceland, 2019, 85m)
