[ISEA2013] Panel: Lucas Ihlein – Medium-Specificity and Sociality in Expanded Cinema Re-Enactment

Panel Statement

Panel: Media Art, Mediation and Contemporary Art

Keywords: expanded cinema, re-enactment, medium-specificity, sociality, performance art, experimental cinema, pedagogy

In this short paper, I introduce the work of the artist group Teaching and Learning Cinema, which re-enacts Expanded Cinema artworks from the 1960s and 70s. I make a connection between sociality (which binds together artists in collectives and screening ‘clubs’) and the issue of medium specificity. Re-enacting Expanded Cinema, I suggest, gently probes at the intersection of medium specificity and sociality. This practice asks questions about the material qualities of film, video and performance, and the particular relations these media carry across time and culture.

  • Lucas Ihlein, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia

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