Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema
In Theorizing Cinema Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema, leading film theorists consider artworks that incorporate, restage, and re-present cinema's configuration of the key categories of space, experience, presence/absence, production and consumption, technology, myth, perception, event, and temporality, so interrogating the creation, appraisal, and evolution of film theory as channeled through contemporary art. This book takes film theory as a blueprint for the moving image, and juxtaposes it with artworks that render cinema as a material object.
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2020, Amsterdam University Press, Hardbound, 302 pages, ISBN 9789462989467
CORNER
CORNER is a uniquely designed book with film stills by Gibson + Recoder and photographs by Paula Court documenting Douglas Dunn’s restaged performance of his 1973 work, Time Out. With essays by Dunn, Gibson + Recoder, and Brice Brown.
2019, MAB Books, Hardbound, 108 pages, ISBN 978-1-7331840-1-4
RESET THE APPARATUS! A Survey of the Photographic and the Filmic in Contemporary Art
RESET THE APPARATUS! was an arts-based research project between artists and scholars, which investigated practices that are motivated by the idea of the photographic and the filmic but do not necessarily result in photographs or films. This book features deviant and/or expanded uses of media, artworks that modify, repurpose, or even dismantle the conventional apparatus or dispositif and exemplify the myriad ways how it can be “reset.”
2019, De Gruyter, Hardbound, 208 pages, ISBN 978-3-11-063068-8
Celluloid: Tacita Dean, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Rosa Barba, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder
Celluloid presents the work and ideas of Tacita Dean, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Rosa Barba, Sandra Gibson & Luis Recoder – four influential contemporary artists and duos who, in defiance of the digital mainstream, have chosen to work with analogue film material. Using 16mm or 35mm film, these artists create extraordinary layered film installations and sculptures that explore the characteristics of celluloid and the accompanying apparatus. They celebrate the unsurpassable power of the projected image, celluloid’s tactile and visual richness and color nuances, and the machinery that constitutes the cinematic experience.
2016, nai010 publishers, Paperback, 128 pages, ISBN 978-94-6208-320-2