The essay reflects upon some relevant examples of video-installation using materials from the movies. Making art as a way of criticizing and de-constructing another medium is a common tendency in today's culture. These installations allow the artist to challenge the cinematic text by suspending some of the commonly accepted illusions movies are based on: their supposed "embodiness" and the imaginary continuity of diegesis. In video-installations, such suspension is made possible by the refusal of the "somwehere else" movies take place in, obtained through the use of actual space.
Mcmanus, K., Altrove e qui. L'immagine cinematografica nella video-installazione contemporanea, in Casero, C., Guerra, M. (ed.), Le immagini tradotte. Usi passaggi trasformazioni, Diabasis, Reggio Emilia 2011: 64- 78 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/29344]
Altrove e qui. L'immagine cinematografica nella video-installazione contemporanea
Mcmanus, Kevin
2011
Abstract
The essay reflects upon some relevant examples of video-installation using materials from the movies. Making art as a way of criticizing and de-constructing another medium is a common tendency in today's culture. These installations allow the artist to challenge the cinematic text by suspending some of the commonly accepted illusions movies are based on: their supposed "embodiness" and the imaginary continuity of diegesis. In video-installations, such suspension is made possible by the refusal of the "somwehere else" movies take place in, obtained through the use of actual space.
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