The J.Street Project
Susan Hiller
DAAD and Compton Verney
English and German
Hardcover
644 Pages
125 x 175 mm
2005
ISBN 9780954654580
Taking three years to complete, this complex study extends on Hiller’s interests in exploring historical events that are visually and emotionally compelling. Presented here is an installation that contained both video and photographic works documenting every street in Germany whose name contains a reference to Jews. The result is a collection of images that are compelling in their feeling of sadness and absence that they provoke.
(source: https://www.sfkb.at/books/the-j-street-project/)
About the Artist
Susan Hiller was born in 1940 and grew up in and around Cleveland, Ohio until 1952 when her family moved to South Florida where she attended local schools and Coral Gables High School. She was awarded a scholarship to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and graduated in 1961. After a year in New York studying film and photography at The Cooper Union and archaeology and linguistics at Hunter College, Hiller went on to do postgraduate work at Tulane University in New Orleans with a National Science Foundation fellowship in anthropology. She conducted fieldwork in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize but became uncomfortable with academic anthropology’s claim to objectivity; she wrote that she did not wish her research to become part of anthropology’s ‘objectification of the contrariness of lived events’. During a lecture on African art, she made the decision to leave anthropology to become an artist.
Susan Hiller has been based mainly in London since the early 1960’s. After several exhibitions of her paintings and a series of collaborative ‘group investigations’, in the early 1980’s she began to make innovative use of audio and visual technology. Her groundbreaking installations, multi-screen videos and audio works have achieved international recognition and are widely acknowledged to be a major influence on younger British artists.
With a practice extending over 40 years, Susan Hiller is considered one of the most influential artists of her generation. Her work is found internationally in both private and public collections and her career has been recognized by mid-career survey exhibitions at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts (1986) and Tate Liverpool (1996), and, most recently by, a major retrospective exhibition at Tate Britain (2011).
https://www.susanhiller.org/home.html
(source: https://www.susanhiller.org/about.html)
About the Publisher
Since it was founded in 1925, around 3 million scholars in Germany and abroad have received DAAD funding. It is a registered association and its members are German institutions of higher education and student bodies. Its activities go far beyond simply awarding grants and scholarships. The DAAD supports the internationalisation of German universities, promotes German studies and the German language abroad, supports countries in the Global South in building and improving their higher education systems and advises decision makers on education, foreign science and development policy.
Its budget is derived mainly from the federal funding for various ministries, primarily the German Federal Foreign Office, but also from the European Union and a number of enterprises, organisations and foreign governments. Its head office is in Bonn, but the DAAD also has an office in the German capital, Berlin, to which the famous Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme (Berliner Künstlerprogramm) is closely affiliated. It maintains contact with and provides advice to its main partner countries on every continent via a network of regional offices, information centres and information points.
In 2023, the DAAD funded more than 140,000 German and international scholars worldwide. The funding offers range from a year abroad for undergraduates to doctoral programmes, from internships to visiting lectureships, and from information gathering visits to assisting with the establishment of new universities abroad. Voluntary, independent selection committees decide on the funding. The selection committee members are appointed by the DAAD’s Executive Committee according to certain appointment principles. The DAAD supports the international activities of German higher education instution through marketing services, publications, the staging of events and training courses.
https://www.daad.de/en/
(source: https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/who-we-are/)
Compton Verney House Trust was founded by Sir Peter Moores and is funded by the Peter Moores Foundation.
https://www.comptonverney.org.uk/
Further Reading
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hiller-the-j-street-project-t14660
