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Gillian McIver
I got interested in video by picking up a camera and shooting.
I realised video was an art form when I saw Bill Viola's Nantes
Tryptych at the Whitechapel Gallery. I could not have imagined that
anyone could use video to create something so personal yet so universal.
As I see it evolving, my work is about layering, about exploring
deep time, about an archaeology of practice. I mean both digging
out layers of meaning, and placing or constructing layers - - layering
video tracks, montage and collage, creating objects from layers
of material.
In 1997 I co-founded the group Luna
Nera, to create site-responsive art interventions in old buildings,
historic sites, places with historical or spiritual connections.
I work as an artist in video and installation, and am also curator
of video and site-responsive projects and events.
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