
Renowned video artist Viola participates in a conversation that provides new insight into his current interests, his creative process, and the images and texts that serve as sources for his work. Color photos.

Human emotions are the subject of The Passions, a series of 20 video works made by the contemporary artist Bill Viola (b. 1951). Since the mid-1970s, Viola's video installations have dealt with themes of perception, memory and self-knowledge. In these new works he has grappled...