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© William Kentridge
Automatic Writing
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Automatic Writing

by William Kentridge
Artist (Sydafrika, född 1955)
Alternate Title
  • Automatisk skrift
Medium35 mm film transferred to digital video, color, sound
Dimensions2:38 min
Classification
Countries
Credit LineInköp 2004
On view
Stockholm
RoomGallery 01:17
Object NumberMOM/2004/160
About the artworkHere, William Kentridge uses his method of drawing, erasing and redrawing to explore the interplay between image and subtext. The textual elements function as a kind of exploration of the subconscious. The inspiration comes partly from the use of automatic writing in psychoanalysis to access repressed memories, and partly from the séance as a channel to the supernatural. Description Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, 2004. A boxed set of eleven dvds by the following artists: Francis Alÿs, David Claerbout, Douglas Gordon, Gary Hill, Pierre Huyghe, Joan Jonas, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist and Anri Sala. The edition is unlimited with a first run of 1650. Produced by: Bick Productions (Ilene Kurtz-Kretzschmar and Caroline Bourgeois), and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (www.newmuseum.org)