[Frameworks] Film, Performance and Space?
Richard, the call is strange, weird . . for taking it for granted that film and performance art have something in common. Space and film makes sense. There's a cool essay by Beatriz Colomina on architecture, sexuality, and film in the volume she edited called Sexuality and Space. That's cinema . . isn't it, at least as Sense of Cinema would have it? I mean the architectural dimensions . . the architectural spaces of shots. But Colomina is onto the importance of space for questions concerned with sexuality . . . . and then, then there's performance art. I think of the Boston event in April called Near death performance art experience. Not an impartial choice, but certainly a very prominent one within American performance art. What could such an event have to do with film? And who, anyway, comes to mind when you think of performance art? Aaaargh. What is the relationship between such a practice in live performance, on one hand, and technology itself . . in general, not to speak of film in particular? There's no way around this abyss. The doubt opens up before your dismissal of documentation, Richard. It's like a giant log right in your path. And to go beyond that, like you invite us to, you know, what exactly does that mean . . that beyond that is a going along with a technology, with filmmaking? What, after all, was it that was supposed to be going on in those events themselves? Better to go, perhaps, by way of a certain kind of figurative painting. The avant-garde in film suddenly looks to a time way, way, WAY before performance art . . or else it seeks to assuage this doubt with expanded cinema. But we have arrived at an expanded cinema that is now . . in the theater itself! Bernie Richard Ashrowan Mon Sep 2 13:07:17 UTC 2013 Hello all, I am trying to put together some screenings for the Edinburgh venue Summerhall, whose autumn theme is broadly 'Performance and Space', at quite short notice. I'm looking for filmworks, moving image or expanded cinema projects that relate to that theme in some meaningful way. Of course, it's a very broad theme... I've been looking at various people associated with the London Filmaktion group (LFMC), plus works that have a strong component of performance art (those that go beyond 'documentation'). But I am also keen to find newer works in this territory, or some things from across the ocean. If anyone has any helpful suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, here or off-list. Many thanks, Richard Richard Ashrowan Creative Director Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 04.04.2014 - 06.04.2014 Hawick, Scottish Borders www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk www.ashrowan.com___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Film, Performance and Space?
Richard, A number of artists have taken space (as in literal space) and performance (live performance, not acting on screen) as innate features or characteristics of cinema. Projection performance assumes that the act of exhibiting cinema is, in some sense, performative, and the resulting works are intended as cinema not as performance art. (That is, claiming a performance aspect for cinema is not the same as calling it performance art in the historical sense in which the latter term is typically used). Bruce McClure, Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, Kerry Laitala, Sally Golding, and others are examples. And don't forget Ken Jacobs and Tony Conrad. Filmaktion, and related work by people like William Raban, Maclolm Le Grice, Takahiko Iimura, Annabel Nicolson, and Takehisa Kosugi, also fits, at least broadly. Frampton's A Lecture could be seen as a progenitor of contemporary projection performance. The same goes for space - the acknowledgement of the literal space of the theater, or in some cases the gallery, has been a hallmark of much cinematic work, including that of Paul Sharits, Anthony McCall, Lis Rhodes (LIGHT MUSIC), to name a few. Several of the above filmmakers also apply, including Gibson and Recoder and Bruce McClure. I've gone with the bigger names here. But for everyone I've mentioned there are scores of others whose work sees cinema as inherently spatial and/or performative. Hope this helps. Best, Jonathan On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Bernard Roddy rodd...@yahoo.com wrote: Richard, the call is strange, weird . . for taking it for granted that film and performance art have something in common. Space and film makes sense. There's a cool essay by Beatriz Colomina on architecture, sexuality, and film in the volume she edited called Sexuality and Space. That's cinema . . isn't it, at least as Sense of Cinema would have it? I mean the architectural dimensions . . the architectural spaces of shots. But Colomina is onto the importance of space for questions concerned with sexuality . . . . and then, then there's performance art. I think of the Boston event in April called Near death performance art experience. Not an impartial choice, but certainly a very prominent one within American performance art. What could such an event have to do with film? And who, anyway, comes to mind when you think of performance art? Aaaargh. What is the relationship between such a practice in live performance, on one hand, and technology itself . . in general, not to speak of film in particular? There's no way around this abyss. The doubt opens up before your dismissal of documentation, Richard. It's like a giant log right in your path. And to go beyond that, like you invite us to, you know, what exactly does that mean . . that beyond that is a going along with a technology, with filmmaking? What, after all, was it that was supposed to be going on in those events themselves? Better to go, perhaps, by way of a certain kind of figurative painting. The avant-garde in film suddenly looks to a time way, way, WAY before performance art . . or else it seeks to assuage this doubt with expanded cinema. But we have arrived at an expanded cinema that is now . . in the theater itself! Bernie *Richard Ashrowan* *Mon Sep 2 13:07:17 UTC 2013* -- Hello all, I am trying to put together some screenings for the Edinburgh venue Summerhall, whose autumn theme is broadly 'Performance and Space', at quite short notice. I'm looking for filmworks, moving image or expanded cinema projects that relate to that theme in some meaningful way. Of course, it's a very broad theme... I've been looking at various people associated with the London Filmaktion group (LFMC), plus works that have a strong component of performance art (those that go beyond 'documentation'). But I am also keen to find newer works in this territory, or some things from across the ocean. If anyone has any helpful suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, here or off-list. Many thanks, Richard Richard Ashrowan Creative Director Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 04.04.2014 - 06.04.2014 Hawick, Scottish Borderswww.alchemyfilmfestival.org.ukwww.ashrowan.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks -- Jonathan Walley Associate Professor Department of Cinema Denison University wall...@denison.edu ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Film, Performance and Space?
On Sep 4, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Bernard Roddy wrote: Richard, the call is strange, weird . . for taking it for granted that film and performance art have something in common. Scratch Carolee Schneeman, Yvonne Rainer, Jack Smith….. Forget all those now-popular film projector performance screenings with makers enacting vimeo.com/39625011http://vimeo.com/39625011 vimeo.com/54849141http://vimeo.com/54849141 Chuck Kleinhans ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
[Frameworks] Film, Performance and Space?
Hello all, I am trying to put together some screenings for the Edinburgh venue Summerhall, whose autumn theme is broadly 'Performance and Space', at quite short notice. I'm looking for filmworks, moving image or expanded cinema projects that relate to that theme in some meaningful way. Of course, it's a very broad theme... I've been looking at various people associated with the London Filmaktion group (LFMC), plus works that have a strong component of performance art (those that go beyond 'documentation'). But I am also keen to find newer works in this territory, or some things from across the ocean. If anyone has any helpful suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, here or off-list. Many thanks, Richard Richard Ashrowan Creative Director Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 04.04.2014 - 06.04.2014 Hawick, Scottish Borders www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk www.ashrowan.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
Re: [Frameworks] Film, Performance and Space?
Dunno much about LFMC, but the great MISSING by UK video artist Riccardo Iacono's comes to mind... On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Richard Ashrowan rich...@ashrowan.com wrote: Hello all, I am trying to put together some screenings for the Edinburgh venue Summerhall, whose autumn theme is broadly 'Performance and Space', at quite short notice. I'm looking for filmworks, moving image or expanded cinema projects that relate to that theme in some meaningful way. Of course, it's a very broad theme... I've been looking at various people associated with the London Filmaktion group (LFMC), plus works that have a strong component of performance art (those that go beyond 'documentation'). But I am also keen to find newer works in this territory, or some things from across the ocean. If anyone has any helpful suggestions, I would be glad to hear them, here or off-list. Many thanks, Richard Richard Ashrowan Creative Director Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 04.04.2014 - 06.04.2014 Hawick, Scottish Borders www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk www.ashrowan.com ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks ___ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
