Installation and the Moving Image, Catherine Elwes
Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), 2016, v. 5, no. 1&2, pp. 276-282
This review article, by Kim Knowles, begins by describing the author's unpleasant experience in Bill Viola's exhibition The Quintet of the Astonished in Paris, which leads to the discussion of the relationship between the moving image and the gallery space. The book Installation and the Moving Image, by Catherine Elwes, mainly focuses on issues of spectatorship, the shift from analogue to digital, the aesthetics of immersion and distraction, and expanded cinema within the history of the avant-garde. In the conclusion of this review, the author states that he disagrees with Elwes' opinion on how artists use archival material uncritically for mimetic and aesthetic properties. On the other hand, he proposes that we as artists should embrace all factors of aesthetics.
ITEM 2016.037 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The Quintet of the Astonished – Bill Viola
Entr'acte – Reme Clair
Three Transitions – Peter Campus
Clipher Screen – Greg Pope
Installation and the Moving Image – Catherine Elwes