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- Seven channels of color High-Definition video on seven 65-inch plasma displays mounted vertically show seven submerged fully clothed people of different ages, genders and ethnicities floating beneath the surface of a river or lake.
- This work's left panel depicts - in high-definition video - the conscious self of a man sitting on a chair, waiting, though we will never discover exactly what he is waiting for.
- "Angel at the Door" explores the theme of the 'inner self'; a cycle develops whereby a man hears a knocking at the door, but each time he opens it, he finds no one there - only a dark void. When he opens the door for the final time, however, there is an explosion, revealing a mirror image of himself - offering a thought-provoking insight into man's inevitable and unavoidable confrontation with his 'inner self'.
- A bound and suspended upside down man is subjected to a physical onslaught of water.
- One of the first experimental art games ever made, "The Night Journey" uses both game and video techniques to tell the universal story of an individual's journey towards enlightenment.
- A bound and suspended woman in a white homespun dress is subjected to a physical onslaught of air.
- This work's right panel - shot in a textured, grainy, high contrast black and white depiction - portrays the soul, and the inner being of a man sitting on a chair, waiting, though we will never discover exactly what he is waiting for.
- Shot at El Mirage, a six-mile long, dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, a video homage to the British land artist Richard Long where a solitary man embarks on a psychoactive journey across Southern California's mind-expanding arid desert.
- Presents three distinct bodies of works by American video artist Bill Viola: the Frustrated Actions series (2013), the Mirage series (2012) and the Water Portraits series (2013).
- Nine individual plasma screens are positioned in three horizontal rows as each panel depicts a person or couple perpetually repeating an activity in a weary but steady rhythm, pausing at the end of each cycle, before the inevitable repetition of that action: Man Shoveling Gravel; Two Women Gifting; Man Pulling Cart; Couple Slapping; Pouring Water; Woman Moving Belongings; Man at Door; Two Men in Boat; Man Digging Hole.
- Pioneering American video and installation artist Bill Viola discusses his childhood, career and exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park with Kira Perov, executive director at his studio, and Clare Lilley, director of programme at YSP
- Moving through its five parts, the work describes a cycle of birth through to death, depicting both an eternal, universal Mary, and an earthly Mary representing human life on Earth.
- Bound to a wooden chair, an old man wearing a homespun shirt is subjected to a physical onslaught of fire.
- Shows four individuals, across four color vertical plasma screens, being martyred by the four classical elements, with no sound.