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Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House by Bill Viola
Art Institute of Chicago

Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House

Bill Viola · 1982

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Artist

Bill Viola

Date

1982

Medium

Color video, sound (monitor), wood chair, headphones, spotlight, and pedestal

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Classification

sculpture

Department

Contemporary Art

Culture / origin

United States

Credit line

Purchased with funds provided by Barbara Bluhm, Frances Dittmer, Ruth Horwich, Susan and Lewis Manilow, Marcia and Irving Stenn, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. Paul Sternberg, and Lynn and Allen Turner; through prior gifts of Leigh and Mary Block

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Bill Viola

American video and installation artist (1951–2024)

Lifespan
1951 – 2024
Wikidata
Q437616
VIAF
54262276
ULAN
500092205
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