A Journey That Wasn't: Pierre Huyghe's Graphic Film

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Edgar Allan Poe Review Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.5325/edgallpoerev.22.1.0167

M. Hines

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Abstract:This article considers the influence of Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket on contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe's 2005 video installation A Journey That Wasn't, a documentation of the artist's journey to the Antarctic and its subsequent reenactment as a performance in New York City's Central Park. Whereas cinema has been attracted to the graphicality of Poe's writing, his ability to create compelling images in words, A Journey distinguishes itself from that tradition. This article employs a close reading of Poe's definition of graphicality in order to expand the critical interpretation of Poe's neologism and relate it to contemporary debates about the nature of representation in art's documentary turn and artistic research, both genres that emerged in the mid-1990s and to which Huyghe's project relates. It argues that graphicality is a theory of representation specifically positioned against objectivity as the sole means of producing shared knowledge. It demonstrates graphicality's relevance for A Journey, which is concerned with contemporary debates surrounding art and film's relationship to science and knowledge production.

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一个不存在的旅程:皮埃尔·于格的平面电影

摘要:本文探讨埃德加·爱伦·坡1838年的小说《阿瑟·戈登·皮姆的楠塔开特》对当代艺术家皮埃尔·于格2005年的录像装置《不存在的旅程》的影响，该装置记录了艺术家的南极之旅，并将其作为表演在纽约中央公园重演。坡的作品生动形象吸引了电影界，他在文字中创造出引人入胜的形象，而《旅程》则与这一传统截然不同。本文对爱伦·坡对图形性的定义进行了细致的解读，以扩展对爱伦·坡的新词的批判性解读，并将其与当代关于艺术纪录片转向和艺术研究中再现本质的争论联系起来，这两种类型都出现在20世纪90年代中期，而Huyghe的项目也与之相关。它认为，图形性是一种专门针对客观性的表征理论，客观性是产生共享知识的唯一手段。它展示了图形化与《旅程》的相关性，它关注的是围绕艺术和电影与科学和知识生产的关系的当代辩论。

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