Screening of “The Passing”

Thu 08 Mar 2012, 3 pm
DOCLAB

From DOCLAB:
Video Art Video presents the screening of The Passing, a video art by famous video artist, Bill Viola. “The Passing is personal response to the spiritual extremes of birth and death in the family. Black-and-white imagery and underwater scenes depicts a twilight world hovering on the borders of human perception and consciousness, where the multiple lives of the mind-memory, reality, and vision-merge.” – Bill Viola, 1991.

Considered by many to be one of Viola’s most important and accessible works, The Passing speaks eloquently to human experience at its most profound, it is a meditation on the passage of generations. This one-hour video is a landmark of twentieth-century visual narrative as well as an expression of spirituality that is both deeply personal and universally understood.

Bill Viola (born in 1951) is a contemporary video artist. He is considered a leading figure in the generation of artists whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, and image technology in New Media. His works focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness.

The screening is non-profit and aims for studies and research only.

Language: English

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