Susan Hiller.

Title

The provisional texture of reality : selected talks and texts, 1977-2007

Author

Hiller, Susan.  

Publisher:

JRP/Ringier ;

Pub date:

c2008.

Pages:

255 p. :

ISBN:

9783905829563

extract:

1. - reverie, dreams, trance, hallucinations, spirituality, altered states of consciousness, psychological borderlands.
2. - fluctuating cycle of attention
3. - experiences of the unstable zones, where the visual merges with the visionary.
4. - mapping a terrain
5. - takes an ironic, even cynical approach, to the whole realm of the irrational and uncanny; they can be very funny as well as enlightening.
6. - exploring dreams, hallucinations, visions and how different psychological tunings produce different scales of consciousness and unconsiousness 
7. - conscious pragmatic activity and unconscious dreamlike activity
8. - investigate psychological borderlands where areas of unconsciousness intersect with what we think of as ordinary.
9. - People are interested in states of mind that can be enhanced through music and certain kinds of stimulants and through meditation.
10. - propose the possibility of shifting the viewer's consciousness through visual means to induce revelation, sudden multi-level insights...
11. - ...excluded works that exoticise and freeze 'the unconscious', like the paintings by some surrealists, which represent dream imagery as a static rebus decipherable by experts...
12. - our human brain is already an immensely complex chemical system demonstrating a more-or-less direct relationship between states of mind and particular balances/imbalances.'
13. - Psychoactive drugs alter the brain 'normal' effects by changing the speeds of intensities by which it already operates...'
14. '...they actually add no new ingredients to its chemical mix...'
15. '....how artist communicate an awareness perpetually relegated to the margins of social thoughts because it signals an epistemological upheaval - illusion or delusion...'