Balancing on shifting ground: Migratory aesthetics and recuperation of presence in Ori Gersht’s video installation On Reflection

Q2 Social Sciences

Crossings Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI:10.1386/cjmc_00001_1

Hava Aldouby

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Abstract

This article looks at On Reflection, a video installation by the London-based artist Ori Gersht, in light of the artist’s transcultural or ‘travelling’ position between the United Kingdom, where Gersht has been residing and practising art since 1989, and his native country of Israel. Through close analysis of a single video installation by a British/Israeli ‘radicant’, to adopt Nicolas Bourriaud’s suggestive nomenclature, the article asks how the global migratory condition is affecting contemporary art and aesthetic experience. Focusing on sensory and motor aspects of viewers’ engagement with the installation, the article proposes an approach to the political through the prism of aisthêsis, or sensory engagement. It further suggests that On Reflection evinces a cautious effort to augment observers’ sense of bodily presence, which, however, does not outlast the brief duration of the gallery visit. The multidisciplinary approach offered here combines close attention to aesthetics, in Jill Bennett’s sense of ‘what art does’, with insights from phenomenological film theory and from cognitive neuroscience. It is argued that this is a productive critical gateway through which to investigate the migratory turn in global art.

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在移动的地面上保持平衡:奥里·格什特录像装置作品《反思》中的迁徙美学与在场的恢复

这篇文章着眼于伦敦艺术家Ori Gersht的视频装置作品《反思》，考虑到这位艺术家在英国和他的祖国以色列之间的跨文化或“旅行”地位。Gersht自1989年以来一直居住在英国并从事艺术工作。本文通过对一位英国/以色列“激进分子”的单个视频装置的仔细分析，采用尼古拉斯·布里亚德的暗示性命名法，询问全球移民状况如何影响当代艺术和审美体验。文章聚焦于观众参与装置的感官和运动方面，提出了一种通过aisthêsis或感官参与的棱镜来实现政治的方法。它进一步表明，《反思》表现出了一种谨慎的努力，以增强观察者的身体存在感，然而，这种存在感不会持续到画廊参观的短暂时间。这里提供的多学科方法将对美学的密切关注与现象学电影理论和认知神经科学的见解相结合，这是吉尔·贝内特对“艺术的作用”的理解。有人认为，这是一个富有成效的关键门户，通过它可以调查全球艺术的移民转变。

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Crossings Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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期刊介绍： Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture situates itself at the interface of Migration Studies and Cultural Studies. The terminology and key concepts in use in discourses on migration have yet to be sufficiently theorized or understood from theoretical perspectives linked to cultural studies, although migration is intrinsically linked to questions of culture. The course of cultures at both local and global levels is crucially affected by migratory movements. In turn, culture itself is turned migrant. This journal''s scope will be global, with a predominant focus on migration and culture from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present-day. Apart from the inclusion of refereed articles, Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture will include a section of reviews of films, music, photography, exhibitions or books on migration-related topics, interviews with cultural practitioners who focus on migration-related topics, and oral histories of migrant cultural experiences.