Susan Hiller: the provisional texture of reality: selected talks and texts, 1977-2007.

The premise of the ‘Positions’ series ‘to question artistic and curatorial practices from the singular position of an artist who writes [and, I would add, talks] both on his/her own work as well as that of other artists’ is fulfilled in an exemplary fashion in the career of Susan Hiller to date. Not only has she produced a multitude of texts, mostly in the form of improvised talks on art, artists, and – simultaneously – culture, politics, science, the unconscious, but she has often engaged with words, writing, voices and languages in her art practice. The file accompanying this record is a sample chapter extracted from the full book