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Susan Hiller, Channels (2011). 

Susan Hiller. I guess I could maybe use the leftover postcards for something similar.Maybe just keep a note of where in the world all the postcards come from, marking them on a map? Looking forward to getting the postcards now. Desperately needing more source material. 

Susan Hiller, Dedicated to the Unknown Artist, 1972-76 (Detail)

There are 303 roads, streets, and paths in Germany, whose names refer to a Jewish presence. Artist Susan Hiller has visited all of them over a three-year period, filming and taking photographs of these historically evocative places. The J. Street Project is an exhibition of photographs, video and an artist’s book that explores the landscape’s capacity to memorialize. Hiller’s subject matter is the tracing of an absence, explicitly named on maps and street signs as “Judenstrasse” or “Judenweg.” These banal markers invest ordinary German places, inner-city shopping streets, dreamy lanes, anonymous suburbs, and secluded country roads, with an eloquent silence. Hiller’s approach to the enormity of the Holocaust is completely fresh and succeeds in pulling in audiences who no longer feel capable of considering the subject and engages them in a new dialogue about survival and renewal.

Click through on this post to watch a time-lapse video of the installation of Monument

One of the best pieces I’ve seen at the Tate. Here’s a video of it in action if you’re interested.

‘Dedicated to the Unknown Artists’ - Susan Hiller. Current inspiration.  

Susan Hiller, RIP

Susan Hiller, Night Waves Nine archival digital prints 2009

Ghosts, Susan Hiller, 2012.

Susan Hiller - ’Vapours’

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/penone-no-title-p78576

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The exhibit, which spans the five boroughs, opens to the public on October 12 and is comprised of more than 300 pieces. Like the Robert Frost poem it references, the show examines the tension and contradictions surrounding borders and those excluded by them, inspired by Ai’s concerns about the global refugee crisis and related geopolitical conflicts. Many of the city sites selected by Ai, once a New York immigrant himself, also have close ties to histories of immigration, protest, and free speech.