Abstract Video Jennings, Gabrielle; Mondloch, Kate
09/2015
eBook
Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in ...moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000,Abstract Videoaddresses a longer history of experimentation in video, net art, installation, new media, expanded cinema, visual music, and experimental film. Editor Gabrielle Jennings-a video artist herself-reveals as never before how works of abstract video are not merely, as the renowned curator Kirk Varnedoe once put it, "pictures of nothing," but rather amorphous, ungovernable spaces that encourage contemplation and innovation. In explorations of the work of celebrated artists such as Jeremy Blake, Mona Hatoum, Pierre Huyghe, Ryoji Ikeda, Takeshi Murata, Diana Thater, and Jennifer West, alongside emerging artists, this volume presents fresh and vigorous perspectives on a burgeoning and ever-changing arena of contemporary art.
The seemingly paradoxical phenomenon of mainstream alt-porn belies ostensible distinctions between industrial pornography and its alternatives. These corporate iterations of alt-porn—an initially ...grassroots, oppositional, community-based form of adult filmmaking—tend to interweave the conventions and preoccupations of pornography and the avant-garde while straddling the mainstream and the margins of pornographic production. In exploring such liminal spaces, this article redresses the myopias both of rigidly anti-porn stances that fail to consider adult video's subversive potential, and of porn studies' tendency to elide analysis of mainstream texts. Extensive industrial immersion (including interviews with thirty-eight filmmakers and industry insiders) and textual analysis illuminate industrial praxis to argue that the seemingly rigid conventions and taxonomies of mainstream adult video are neither static nor stagnant but rather continually evolving. Despite ongoing blind spots, erasures, and systemic discrimination, the industry's output is increasingly diverse. This article explores mainstream alt-porn as a particularly productive site for locating ruptures, aporias, and outright challenges to industrial and generic hegemony. A series of case studies demonstrates that individual mainstream alt-porn films, despite their corporate production model, may not be antithetical to the subgenre's antiestablishment origins. Frequently adapting self-reflexive strategies from experimental filmmaking to evoke “critical arousal,” these alt-porn films revise, to varying extents, the representational politics of conventional adult video.
In this pioneering work, sixteen historians analyse individual films for deeper insight into US institutions, values and lifestyles. Linking all of the essays is the belief that film holds much of ...value for the historian seeking to understand and interpret American history and culture. This title will be equally valuable for students and scholars in history using film for analysis as well as film students and scholars exploring the way social and historical circumstances are reflected and represented in film.
This article turns on a curatorial project that Trine Friis Sørensen conducted in relation to the Danish Radio Archive (the DR Archive) by commissioning two artists, Kajsa Dahlberg and Olof Olsson, ...to engage with the archive and produce artworks in relation to it. Focusing on the practice of commissioning rather than its outcome, the article proposes to consider commissioning as a curatorial mode of inquiry into the DR Archive and in turn asks why we commission, how the commission works and what kind of thinking the commission engenders. Drawing on Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault and in particular Jacques Derrida, this thinking with and through the practice of commissioning eventually prompts
Chubb features the works of Isaac Julien, a filmmaker and installation artist. One of his works is the three screen projection, Western Union: Small Boat (2007) which opened at Metro Pictures gallery ...in New York on October 25, 2007, and has since been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world.1 The film’s inviting seascapes, lush landscapes, arresting interiors, and sensual bodies surround viewers in the gallery and make it difficult to view the interspersed images of sculptural small-boat wreckages and the clandestine trans-Mediterranean migration they symbolize as anything more than an edgy backdrop for a Vogue or Travel and Leisure photoshoot. In choosing this aesthetic approach, Julien sets himself apart from his peers and courts the danger of rendering beautiful the suffering, violence, exploitation, and, in many cases, deaths of contemporary migrants; he risks abstracting the migrants into sources of visual pleasure for an audience largely composed of the global, contemporary art biennial–visiting elite. In this essay, I differentiate Julien’s work from both European media representations and the documentary and ethnographic approaches more commonly employed by artists addressing migration.
Celotno besedilo
Dostopno za:
BFBNIB, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NMLJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK, ZRSKP
Ada brings two possessions-her young daughter and her piano-with her. Because Ada is mute, both function as communicative substitutes; signing with her daughter, she is able to relay her basic needs, ...and using the piano, she can express her varied emotions. ...the fact of their original placement remains, and is analogous to the politics of gender within most art museums and galleries: the focus is on the male-dominated action, while the women are given a quarter of the allotted space.1 And what extreme action it is!
Celotno besedilo
Dostopno za:
CEKLJ, DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Dosegli ste najvišje možno število prikazanih rezultatov iskanja.
Zaradi večje učinkovitosti iskanje ponudi največ 1.000 rezultatov na poizvedbo (oz. 50 strani, če je izbrana možnost 10/stran).
Za nadaljnje pregledovanje rezultatov razmislite o uporabi filtrov rezultatov ali spremembi razvrstitve rezultatov.
PDF
