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Hiller, Susan, 1940-2019

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1940 March 7 - 2019 January 28

Nationality

American (born), British (based)

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

After the Freud Museum, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34497-36194
Scope and Contents

This book was a result of an initial installation in the Freud Museum, London, 1994 called "The Reading Room." Hiller states that "it locates something else which is entirely distinct conceptually." The artist created complex boxes with found objects and texts "orchestrating relationships, and inventing fluid taxonomies, while not excluding [herself] from them...Sequences, patterns, repetitions and gaps structure this book." This is a second edition of this book which coincides with the exhibition of the work at the Tate Modern. The Sackner Archive also contains the 1995 first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

After the Freud Museum, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-39018-40955
Scope and Contents

The artist writes in an Afterward, "The title looks back on my recent experience of creating an installation at and for the Freud Museum and at the same time, it locates something else which is entirely distinct conceptually. What I think is positioned here is an extended and episodic view of my personal sense of inhabiting an historically-specific museum of culture with permeable boundaries...Probably artists function by simultaneously enacting the reciprocal roles of curator and subject, therapist and client; I've worked by collecting objects, orchestrating relationships, and inventing fluid taxonomies, while not excluding myself from them." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995