{"id":7515,"date":"2012-04-05T12:37:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=7515"},"modified":"2021-10-06T08:03:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T08:03:47","slug":"work-of-the-month-gary-hill-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/work-of-the-month-gary-hill-bind","title":{"rendered":"Gary Hill &#8211; Bind, 1995"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <em>Work of the month<\/em> is presented Gary Hill&#8217;s single channel video and sound installation titled <em>Bind<\/em>, 1995 (color video monitor, video cassette recorder, steel cable, book &#8211; Private collection)<\/p>\n<p>The work consists of a colour video monitor on which a copy of <em>The Humiliation of the Word <\/em>(1985) by French thinker Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) is bound with a cable. The book is placed open so as to hide the screen of the TV device. The spectator can see only the alternations in the brightness of the image which follow the rhythm of the voice of the artist while reading extracts from Ellul\u2019s book. In <em>The Humiliation of the Word<\/em> (1985) the French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, theologian explores the definitive effects and dominance of technology, images and television, by criticizing the devaluation of the word nowadays. At the back of the book we read, \u201cJacques Ellul for the first time intertwines sociological analysis with theological discussion in this provocative examination of how reality (which is visual) has superseded truth (which is verbal) in modern times\u201d. In Bind the artist with his language-centered experimentations destructs the understanding of the image and the word.<\/p>\n<p>Free entry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Work of the month is presented Gary Hill&#8217;s single channel video and sound installation titled Bind, 1995 (color video monitor, video cassette recorder, steel cable, book &#8211; Private collection) The work consists of a colour video monitor on which a copy of The Humiliation of the Word (1985) by French thinker Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":78391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78317,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions\/78317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}