On paracinema and the dematerialisation of animation

Hosea, Birgitta (2019) On paracinema and the dematerialisation of animation. In: Expanded animation: mapping an unlimited landscape. Ars Electronica / Hatje Cantz, Linz; Berlin, pp. 74-85. ISBN 9783775745253 (In Press)

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Fig5. ©Tingting Lu, Lisa, solo exhibition, installation: 3-screen image, 8-meter device , 1-meter device, 32 x A3 composite photos; BUMF gallery, University of the Arts Bournemouth, UK,12/2016

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Fig6. ©Tingting Lu, The Person in the Gap, installation: digital screens, animation sequence of frames from The Person in the Gap; Beyond Numenon exhibition, Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts, Chongqing,China, 10/2016

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Fig7. Birgitta Hosea, Rosary Drawing XII, live performance: water, scouring pads, black paper, rosary beads; 51% Remember Her exhibition, Tower Gallery, London, 2017

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Fig8. Birgitta Hosea, dotdot dash, participatory performance: red, green, purple laser pointers, live vocals; InspiralLondon event for London as Park City Festival in Regents Canal Tunnels, Kings Cross, London, 2018

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Hosea, Birgitta

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Although the technologies used in contemporary expanded animation are digital, this kind of work builds upon expanded cinema’s legacy of avant-garde practice. This chapter draws upon one strand of expanded cinema - paracinema - as defined by film theorist Jonathan Walley, who uses the term in the sense of the dematerialization of film into idea. Based on archival research and unpublished materials by VALIE EXPORT and Anthony McCall, examples of their expanded practice in paracinema are presented where film becomes live event and, thus, questions the institution of cinema, its strategies of voyeurism and perception. Extending this idea and building upon animation theorist Alan Cholodenko's notion of animation as concept, the animated performance and installation work of contemporary artists Tingting Lu and Birgitta Hosea is proposed as a form of para-animation. Working at the interface of live experience and recorded media, these works dematerialize animation and investigate the inscription of movement over time as concept rather than purely technique.

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Book Section

Date:

7 January 2019

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On Paracinema, Erasure

Additional Information:

Currently in press, this is due for publication later in the year.

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :

expanded animation, expanded cinema, post medium practice, post animation, paracinema, para-animation, VALIE EXPORT, Anthony McCall, Tingting Lu, Birgitta Hosea, Jonathan Walley, Alan Cholodenko

Schools:

School of Film, Media & Performing Arts

Research Centres:

Animation Research Centre

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Depositing User:

Dr Birgitta Hosea

Date Deposited:

21 May 2019 09:50

Last Modified:

17 Feb 2021 16:25

Hosea, Birgitta

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