INTERVIEWS, LECTURES

 

Bill Viola discusses his childhood, career and the exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with Kira Perov,
Executive Director Bill Viola Studio and Clare Lilley, Director of Programme YSP, 2015

 

"Rembrandt of the video age: Bill Viola explores the elemental wonder of his childhood," ABC Radio, 2015

 

 

A special display of Bill Viola's Tiny Deaths, 1993 at Tate Modern coincides with the installation
of a new work by the artist in St Paul's Cathedral entitled Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water), 2014

 

 

The Revd Canon Mark Oakley, Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, talks with Viola and Kira Perov
about Martyrs (Earth, Air, Fire, Water), installed at St Paul's Cathedral, London, 2014

 

BBC Night Waves Radio Interview, London, 2013

 

Bill Viola discusses The Night Journey game at Anderson Ranch Arts Center,
Snowmass, Colorado, 2011

 

"Cameras are Keepers of the Souls," interview with Christian Lund,
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, held in London, 2011

 

Also from the Louisiana Channel, "The Tone of Being," and the importance of sound in Viola's work

 

 

 

InFrame.tv interview, St Carthage's Church, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Australia, 2010

 

 

 

"The Movement in the Moving Image," as the 2009-2010 Una's Lecturer at the
Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley

 

 

 

Viola talks about his MIT residency and artisitc practice, 2009

 

 

Ocean Without a Shore, 2007 presented as a collateral event for the 52nd Venice Biennale, 2007

 

 

"Bill Viola and Emergence," by Mark Kidel for the Getty Museum, 2003

 

 

Bill with Charlie Rose, discussing video art and representing the US at the 46th Venice Biennale, 1995

 

 

WRITINGS

"My lIfe in art. A conversation with Bill Viola", TransMissions: The Journal of Film and Media Studies 2016, vol. 1, no. 1

"Inside Story: Bill Viola," Summer 2014 issue RA Magazine, Royal Academy of Arts, London

Arents Award Recipient 2010, "Video Visionary," Syracuse University Magazine, Fall/Winter 2010, Syracuse, NY

"Peter Campus Image and Self" by Bill Viola, in Art in America, February 2010

The Sydney Morning Herald, Liberation of the senses, April 5, 2008

Tokyo Art Beat interview for the solo exhibtion Bill Viola: Hatsu Yume (First Dream) at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, 2006

"The Light Enters You", Shambala Sun, November 2004

"You won't find these videos at Blockbuster" by Carol Strickland, Christian Science Monitor, December 13, 2002

Art Review: "Themelessness" by Mark Stevens, NewYorkMetro.com, November 2002

"Timeless Themes, Suddenly Timely" by Grace Glueck, New York Times, September 27, 2002

"The Art of High Definition" by Jay Ankeney, HighDef.Org, Jan.-Mar. 2002

I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like, 1986. Videotape, color, stereo sound; 89 minutes

 

READING LIST

Contemporary Philosophy and Science

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Philosophy in the Flesh (Basic Books)

Antonio Damasio, Descartes’ Error (Penguin Books)

Tor Nørretranders, The User Illusion (Penguin Books)

David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (Vintage)

 

Traditional Philosophy

A.K. Coomaraswamy, Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art (Dover)

A. K. Coomaraswamy, Dance of Siva – Essays on Indian Art and Culture (Dover)

A. K. Coomaraswamy, Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought? (World Wisdom)

A.K. Coomaraswamy, Transformation of Nature in Art (Munshiram)

A.K. Coomaraswamy, Coomaraswamy – Selected Papers Vol. 1 & 2 (Princeton University Press)

Rama P. Coomaraswamy ed., The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (World Wisdom)

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Knowledge and the Sacred (State University of New York)

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Art and Spirituality (State University of New York)

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Religion and the Order of Nature (Oxford)

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Need for a Sacred Science (State University of New York)

William Chittick ed., The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr (World Wisdom)

Titus Burckhardt, Sacred Art East and West (Fons Vitae)

Titus Burckhardt, Mirror of the Intellect – Essays on Traditional Science and Sacred Art (State University of New York Press)

Titus Burckhardt, Alchemy – Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul (Fons Vitae)

Titus Burckhardt, The Essential Titus Burckhardt – Reflections on Sacred Art, Faiths, and Civilizations (World Wisdom)

 

Christian Saints and Mystics

The Life of Santa Teresa of Avila By Herself, transl. J,M.Cohen (Penguin Classics)

Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, transl. Elizabeth Spearing (Penguin Classics)

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (Penguin Classics)

The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works (Penguin Classics)

Catherine of Siena, Catherine of Siena The Dialogue, transl. Suzanne Noffke (Paulist Press)

John Kieran-Kavanaugh, John of the Cross Selected Writings (Classics of Western Spirituality)

E. Colledge, B. McGuinn, Meister Eckhardt- Essential Sermons, Commentaries, Treatises, and Defense (Classics of Western Spirituality)

St. John of the Cross, The Poetry of St. John of the Cross (Bottom of the Hill Publishing)

William Johnston, The Cloud of Unkonwing and the Book of Privy Counsel (Image)

Marina Warner, Alone of All Her Sex (Vintage Books)

Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (Vintage Books)

David O’Neal, Meister Eckhardt: From Whom God Hid Nothing (Shambala)

Sabina Flanagan, Hildegard of Bingen – A Visionary Life (Routledge 1989) *out of print in English

 

Buddhism

Kalu Rinpoche, The Dharma (State University of New York Press 1986)

Kalu Rinpoche, Luminous Mind – The Way of the Buddha (Wisdom Publications)

Kazuaki Tanahashi, Enlightenment Unfolds –The Essential teachings of Zen Master Dogen (Shambhala 1999)

Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind Beginner’s Mind (Shambhala)

Shunryu Suzuki, Not Always So (HarperOne)

Ryokan, Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf, transl. John Stevens (Shambhala)

Ryokan, One Robe One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan transl. John Stevens (Wetherhill)

Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying (Harpers San Francisco)

Jane Gyatso, Appartions of the Self (Princeton) *out of print in English

Takuan Soho, The Unfettered Mind (Shambhala)

Francesca Freemantle, Luminous Emptiness – Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Shambhala)

 

Taoism

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, transl. D.C. Lau (Penguin Classics)

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey, transl. Stephan Mitchell (Frances Lincoln)

Chuang Tzu, The Esssential Chuang Tzu, transl. Sam Hamill, J.P.Seaton (Shambhala)

Taoism and the Arts of China, ed.. Stephen Little (University of California Press)

The Secret of the Golden Flower, transl. Thomas Cleary (HarperOne)

 

Hinduism

Barabara Stoller Miller, The Bhagavad-Gita: Krishna’s Counsel in Time of War (Bantam Classics)

Linda Hess, The Bijak of Kabir (Oxford University Press)

Stephan P. Huyler, Meeting God – Elements of Hindu Devotion (Yale University Press)

Shree Perohit Swami & W.B. Yeats, transl., The Ten Principal Upanishads (Rupa & Co)

Eknath Easwaran, The Upanishads (Nilgiri Press)

 

Islamic Sufism

Henry Corbin, Alone with the Alone (Princeton University Press)

Henry Corbin, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism (Omega Publications)

Henry Corbin, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi (Princeton University Press) *out of print in English

Henry Corbin and Nancy Pearson, Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth, (Princeton University Press)

R. A. Nicholson, Rumi – Poet and Mystic (Oneworld Publications, Oxford) *out of print in English

R. A.Nicholson,transl The Mathnawi of Jalaluddin Rumi (E.J. Gibb Memorial Trust) *out of print in English

William Chittick, The Sufi Path of Knowledge (State University of New York Press)

William Chittick, The Self Disclosure of God (State University of New York Press)

Farid ud-Din Attar, The Conference of the Birds (Penguin Classics)

A. J. Arberry, transl., Mystical Poems of Rumi (U. of Chicago)

Kabir Helminski, transl., The Rumi Collection (Shambhala)

Coleman Barks, transl., The Essential Rumi (HarperOne)

Al-Ghazzali, The Niche of Lights (Brigham Young)

Suhrawardi, The Shape of Light (Fons Vitae)

W.M. Thackston, Jr., The Mystical and Visionary Treatises of Suhrawardi (Octagon Press) *out of print in English

Idries Shah, Tales of the Dervishes (Penguin)

 

Art History

Norbert Schneider, The Art of the Portrait (Taschen)

Hans Belting, Likeness and Presence (Univ. of Chicago) *out of print in English

Hans Belting, The Invisible Masterpiece (Univ. of Chicago) *out of print in English

Kurt Barstow, The Gualenghi-d’Este Book of Hours (Getty *out of print in English

Andrée Hayum, God’s Medicine and the Painter’s Vision (Princeton U.Press)

Henk van Os, The Art of Devotion (Princeton U. Press)

David Freeberg, The Power of Images (Univ. of Chicago)

 

Other

Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Mysticism of Sound and Music (Shambhala)

Lewis Hyde, The Gift (Vintage Books)

Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World (Ferrar, Strauss & Giroux)

Walt Whitman, The Portable Walt Whitman (Penguin Classics)