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Gary Hill – Site/Recite – 1989 – 4:05min

With startling precision, Site/Recite moves across and around a table-top graveyard – bones, butterfly wings, egg shells, seed pods, crumpled notes, skulls – in a series of seamless edits that present a continuous flow of detailed close-ups. This taxonomy of dispossession, “little deaths that pile up,” is juxtaposed to a narration on the linkage between semantic self-consciousness and visual experience. Through the window of this text, the objects on the table come to model how consciousness affixes itself to material manifestations and how memory is constituted by the collection of empty vessels. Site/Recite is a prologue for Which Tree, an interactive videodisc installation that presents viewers with a maze of interconnected branch points, allowing them to wander through its forest of images and words to discover the “texts” of their own thinking patterns.

Gary Hill – Soundings – 1978 – 17:49min

In Soundings, conceived by Hill as a work for broadcast, the found object of a loud speaker becomes the source for a sequence of image/sound/text constructs. A series of what Hill terms “processual rituals” ends with a text “from” the speaker, in which it describes its electronic, changing state as a relationship with the viewer. As Hill speaks about touch and sound in an extrapolated monologue, he buries the speaker in sand, drives a spike through it, sets it on fire and pours waters onto it.

Laurie Anderson Website – Laurie Anderson Wiki

Laurie Anderson – O Superman – 1981 – 4:21min

“O Superman” is a 1981 song by experimental performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. Part of the larger work United States, “O Superman,” a half-sung, half-spoken, almost minimalist piece unexpectedly rose to #2 on the UK Singles Charts in 1981^[2]. Prior to the success of this song, Anderson was little known outside the art world. -wiki