Abstract: In other words the artist becomes through process more than just observant, they become an implicated participant, inhabiting and experiencing the total space of the site. This process arguably allows for the ‘art’ to take place, conceived as ‘event’, ‘performance’, or indeed a concept or situation. This paper will uncover through examining the process of making a moving image installation, how and in what ways multilayered space is inhabited: the space of the site, the space (proximity) of the lens; the spaces gained and lost within the edit, and finally the re-constructed space of the installation. My research investigates how and in what ways specific sites are used as subject through contemporary moving-image installation art practice: interrogating through the combinations of theory and practice how and in what ways artists use site as image subject. In this way, visual findings, discoveries and questions emerge from practice and are examined through practice alongside examining other contemporary works. I engage with strategies and tactics used by selected artists, both contemporary (shown in the U.K. between 2002 -2008) and historical. Through first hand experience, visual analysis and artist and gallerist interviews, discussion moves across time, drawing upon selected works from moving image’s short but vibrant history, revealing commonalities across both works and time that are further investigated through critical discussion. Notions of site, place and space are also critically examined and relevant theoretical approaches are employed to consider the works beyond the mimetic image, beyond depiction. It is the very event of the work and my personal encounter with it - through practice and through other artists’ works - that forms the basis of
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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