"CRUX is a five-channel installation, in which the five monitors are arranged in the shape of a monumental cross. The upper monitor showed Hill's head, while the other four showed hands and feet; all of these images were recorded simultaneously as the video cameras were attached to his body. What is disturbing, however, in this piece is the absence of the body." (Sarrazin 2000: 82)

INASMUCH AS IT IS ALWAYS ALREADY TAKING PLACE (1990)

"Each monitor is thus the site of the body which appears on the screens as immutably present and yet outside actual time. Its impregnable solitude reduces the viewer’s role to that of mute witness at what Hill describes, disquietingly, as ‘the incessant, however fragmentary, anatomical site.’ Presence is brought to betray a haunting absence." (Cooke 2000: 139)

"There is a process whereby bodies are constituted from the neutral image, the black or white screen. The problem is not the presence of bodies, but of a belief which could restore us the world and the body from what signifies their absence." (Diserens 2000: 61)

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