The Space Between the Teeth

Time: All day

Location: 56, Media Test Wall

Color video by Bill Viola (1976).

Bill Viola came to video from his experience touring with avant-garde composer and performer David Tudor, bringing an acute sensibility of audiotape manipulation to early video art. Some early video works involved slowing vocal frequencies to barely audible drones, amplifying dripping water to the boom of a kettledrum, or otherwise enlisting sound in deeply unsettling ways. In this tape however, sound is presented at its most primitive, as the camera lunges in to capture the artist's full-throated scream. The video, which was part of a group called "Four Songs," in fact refuses music, words, or narrative (the conventional components of a "song"), as if to suggest that video-and emotion-should be able to communicate at a more basic level.

On view 24 hours/day.

Web site: http://listart.mit.edu/

Open to: the general public

This event occurs daily through January 2, 2009.

Sponsor(s): List Visual Arts Center

For more information, contact:
617/253-4400

This event is categorized as: films/movies, visual arts