'Belshazzar's Feast, the Writing on Your Wall', Susan Hiller

Artwork details

Artist

Susan Hiller (born 1940)

Title

Belshazzar's Feast, the Writing on Your Wall

Date 1983-4

MediumSofa, armchairs, tables, pillows, lamps, artificial plants, rug, 12 works on paper, wallpaper and video

Dimensionssupport, each: 509 x 409 mm duration: 21min, 52sec

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased 1984

Reference

T03923

Not on display

Catalogue entry

Susan Hiller born 1940

T03923 Belshazzar's Feast, The Writing on Your Wall1983-4

U-matic colour videotape, PAL, 20 min; 12 C-type photographs cut out and mounted under perspex, over 12 gouache drawings on acetate sheets, mounted on wallpaper; overall dimensions variable, each mounted photograph 509 x 409 (20 X 16 1/4)
Not inscribed
Purchased from Gimpel Fils (Grant-in-Aid) 1984
Exh: Susan Hiller, Gimpel Fils, March-April 1984 (earlier version, no cat.)
Lit: Lynne Cooke, ‘Susan Hiller', Art Monthly, no. 75, April 1984, p.11; Stuart Morgan, ‘London, Susan Hiller, Gimpel Fils...' Artforum, vol.22, June 1984, p.100; Susan Hiller and Catherine Lacey, Susan Hiller, Belshazzar's Feast, Tate New Art, The Artist's View, 1985, repr. cover, pp.4, 8, 11 (details), p… (read more)