Gary Hill's extraordinary catalogue of work has encompassed ground-breaking single screen tapes as well as elaborate, often breath-taking gallery installations, that have quite rightly confirmed his soaring reputation on the international art scene. This retrospective showcase of Hill's single-screen video pieces spans an astonishingly productive twenty year period and traces a range of insights and ideas that have continued to resonate throughout his oeuvre as a whole, highlighting the virtuoso interplay of image and language that is very much Hill's forté and the dazzling editing and camera technique that is the visible hallmark of so much of his work. What impresses the most about this remarkable series of tapes (aside from Hill's formal and technical audacity and his equally prodigious frame-of-reference) is the sheer sense of possibility that is conveyed. For anyone who still needs convincing of the inventive potential of the electronic medium, Hill's work offers 1001 reasons to look again.
Programme 1 (3./7.7.)
Air Raid ( 197 4) 6 min./Full Cercle ( 1978) 3 min./
Primary (1978) 2 min./Elements (1978) 2 min. /
Mouth Piece (1978) 1 min./Picture Story (1979) 7min/
Commentory (1980) 5 min./Around & About (1980)
5min./Videograms (1980/81) 14 min./Processual
Video (1980) 11 min./Tale Enclosure (1985) 5 min/
Mediations (1979/86) 5 min.
Programme 2 (5./8.7.)
Happenstance (1982/83)(part one of many acts)
6 min./Why Do Things Gel in A Muddle ? (Come on
Petunia) (1984) 32 min./URA ARU (the bockside
exists) (1985/86) 28 min.
Programme 3 (6./9.7.)
Primarily Speaking (1981/83) 19 min./Site,Resite
(a Propogue) (1989) 19 min./
Incidence of Catastrophe ( 1987 /88) 44 min.