Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook entries, drawings, and descriptions of projects that map Viola's personal course through the readings, observations, experiments, and associations that form the groundwork for his art. Each work illustrated is accompanied by a description by the artist, as well as comments on the work's origins from the artist's notebooks.
For the last 25 years, Viola has used innovative multimedia technologies to explore the phenomena of sense perception as a language of the body and avenue to self-knowledge, integrating many disciplines and philosophies to reveal contemporary art's relevance to the modern world. His views have deep roots in mysticism, poetry, philosophy, Eastern art, shamanism, Chinese Taoism, Sufism, and Zen Buddhism. Viola's chief concerns today are to draw attention to the upset ecological balance of nature by focusing on the connection between our inner and outer lives, on the conception of the self as part of the whole.
Published in association with the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London.

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House: Writings 1973-1994

Arts & Photography

VIOLA, Bill

Individual Artists

The MIT Press

Bill Viola: Love/Death - The Tristan Project

Sellars, Peter

Swed, Mark

Mortier, Gerard

Salonen, Esa-Pekka

Mercatorfonds

Widely recognized as the leading video artist of our time, Bill Viola employs sophisticated state-of-the-art technologies to create installations that envelop the viewer in image and sound. In his newest and most evocative work— on display at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and in this accompanying catalogue—an ordered sequence of allegorical fresco-like images immerse the viewer in a total aesthetic, sensory, and philosophical experience. 
Including an interview with the artist—who represented the United States at the 1995 Venice Biennale and whose career was the subject of a major 1997 traveling exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art—this is a mesmerizing volume.

Going Forth by Day

Guggenheim Museum Pubns

Bill Viola: Slowly Turning Narrative

Institute of Contemporary Art / VMFA

Widely recognized as the leading video artist of our time, Bill Viola employs sophisticated state-of-the-art technologies to create installations that envelop the viewer in image and sound. In his newest and most evocative work--exhibited first at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and in this accompanying catalogue--an ordered sequence of allegorical fresco-like images immerse the viewer in a total aesthetic, sensory and philosophical experience. Includes an interview with the artist.

Bill Viola: Going Forth By Day

Hanhardt, John G.

Guggenheim Museum

Being & Time: The Emergence of Video Projection

Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Nauman, Bruce

Hill, Gary

Thater, Diana

Doherty, Willie

Oursler, Tony

Humor & Entertainment

Bill Viola: Buried Secrets / Vergrabene Geheimnisse [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1996] Bill Viola

Bill Viola: Buried Secrets / Vergrabene Geheimnisse

Sparrow, Felicity (ed.)

The Chaplaincy to the Arts and Recreation in North East England

Bill Viola

FAGE

Bill Viola in Dialogue: Selected Writings and Lectures

History & Criticism

Snoeck Publishing Company

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