On an antipodean note, The Age posted a chat with video artist Bill Viola re his current show, The Passions.
The slowness of Viola’s work also has a political dimension. It is an antidote to what he sees as one of the greatest dangers of our age – the speed with which we receive information and our growing inability to makes sense of what we see.
“The velocity and knee-jerk response to events happening in real time that television brings us precludes any kind of reflection or contemplation and therefore analysis And that’s been one of the greatest political dangers in the post-war era. The idea of the reasoned, thoughtful response goes out of the window.”
The Passions is at the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) and runs until 6 November.
