To my wymyśliliśmy czas. "Ocean Without a Shore" i "Transfigurations" Billa Violi
It is Us Who Invented Time. "Ocean Without a Shore" and "Transfigurations" by Bill Viola

Summary/Abstract: The article contains interpretations of two works of the American video artist Bill Viola: "Ocean Without a Shore" and "Transfigurations". In both of them the artist used an unusual technique combining a HD recording, primitive CCTV recordings and his own staging techniques. The common theme is time depicted in many contexts. Seemingly repetitive form became, for Bill Viola, a pretext for reflection on transience, death and reincarnation. Once again, sophisticated technology shows its “human” face, and once again Bill Viola offers the audience the challenge of an erudite puzzle, which under an apparently artless surface hides many fascinating references, in particular to philosophy and religious systems of the East.

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