{"title":"The allegorical re-presentation of colonial cinema in Sammy Baloji’s Pungulume (2016)","authors":"Sanne Fleur Sinnige","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00104_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00104_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses artist Sammy Baloji’s video installation Pungulume (2016) with a focus on its recycling of film clips extracted from an archival colonial film from 1912. Inspired by art historian Georges Didi-Huberman’s anachronic approach to art history, and through a sketch of the history and present-day social and political context in the Congolese Katanga region, this essay contends that these archival clips speak primarily about the present and contain a topical significance. As the author demonstrates, this topical significance can solely be assessed when the viewer is knowledgeable about current political and social debates taking place in the former Katanga province. Additionally, this present-day relevance of the archival film clips also exists in terms of the video installation’s reception – the archival film clips reflect dynamics occurring in the spaces in which the video installation was conceived and continues to be exhibited. Through this reading that ultimately causes the ‘re-presentation’ of the anachronic archival film clips (while acknowledging its indebtment to Congolese popular painting), the author recalls the necessity of considering the historical production context in scholarly analyses of artworks – even when artworks reuse archival documents that stem, for example, from colonial cinema.","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135776378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Xenogenesis, The Otolith Group, curated by Annie Fletcher","authors":"Michael Holly","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00111_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00111_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Xenogenesis , The Otolith Group, curated by Annie Fletcher Reviewed by Michael Holly, University of Sussex Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland, 7 July 2022-12 February 2023","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135776382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negotiating the feminist group: Lizzie Borden’s Regrouping (1976)","authors":"Lily Evans-Hill","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00095_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00095_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers Regrouping, a ‘failed’ film by Lizzie Borden, to think about the dynamics of feminist group-work in the Women’s Liberation Movement. I argue that the film, both in its subject and in the film project, explores conflict in sisterhood through its experimental collaborative approach as well as in its filmic qualities. Using literature surrounding feminist organizational practices, I explore group behaviours present in the film project through the tensions between Borden’s portrait of feminist collective practice and the group’s representation and agency within the process. I also consider the need to reinstate Regrouping, largely unknown and withdrawn from circulation, as an important feminist document that works through the complex negotiations of feminist collaboration that took place in the 1970s.","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82770742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Still Present! – 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Kader Attia in collaboration with Ana Teixeira Pinto, Đỗ Tường Linh, Marie Helene Pereira, Noam Segal and Rasha Salti","authors":"Maria Walsh","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00098_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00098_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Still Present! – 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Kader Attia in collaboration with Ana Teixeira Pinto, Đỗ Tường Linh, Marie Helene Pereira, Noam Segal and Rasha Salti\u0000 Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg and Pariser Platz; Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art; KW Institute for Contemporary Art; and Stasi Headquarters, Campus for Democracy, Berlin. 11 June–18 September 2022","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89155907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interview with Jasmina Cibic by Chris Clarke","authors":"C. Clarke, Jasmina Cibic","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00096_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00096_7","url":null,"abstract":"Jasmina Cibic’s artistic practice across film, performance and installation rigorously interrogates the aesthetics of politics. Her works are situated within grandiose architectural settings of national pride and power, from state assemblies to cultural monuments, while drawing on the historical events and individuals that determine shared conceptions of identity. In this interview, Cibic discusses ideas of soft power in relation to several recent projects, including the 2021 film The Gift, State of Illusion from 2018, and the Nada trilogy of 2016–17. In each of these projects, artistic production is examined in terms of its relationship to propaganda, ideology and identification, the ways in which culture is utilized and whom it is intended to serve.","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83788917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, Gil Z. Hochberg (2021)","authors":"Kaelen Wilson-Goldie","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00100_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00100_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, Gil Z. Hochberg (2021)\u0000 Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 208 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-1-47801-482-9, p/bk, $24.95","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88593626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kitty Anderson, Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn, Emma Dove, T. Fiske, Philippa Lovatt, D. Upton
{"title":"Reflections on โลก(ไร้)รูป (Im)material worlds: Tracing creative practice, histories and environmental contexts in artists’ moving image from Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom","authors":"Kitty Anderson, Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn, Emma Dove, T. Fiske, Philippa Lovatt, D. Upton","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00097_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00097_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75903974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jean Otth and video art networks: Exhibitions, festivals, open encounters – About the agency of a medium","authors":"F. Bovier","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00094_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00094_1","url":null,"abstract":"In the early 1970s, Jean Otth played an active role in the constitution and development of a video art scene in French-speaking Switzerland. The art critic and museum director René Berger described these pioneers in the use of a new medium as ‘musketeers of the invisible’. Based on the notion of agency theorised by Alfred Gell, we show in this article how Otth’s work, as well as his curatorial and pedagogical activities, allowed the development of a videosphere (to take up and displace the meaning of a term proposed by Gene Youngblood in 1970). We also propose an analysis of Otth’s early videos and installations, which are traversed by a phenomenological interrogation on the mechanisms of perception and a deconstruction of representation and its conventions. Finally, we integrate Otth’s reflections on television and video from his personal archives to reveal his creative intentions.","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84887016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment, Annie Dell’Aria (2021)","authors":"Jane Madsen","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00101_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00101_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review of: The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment, Annie Dell’Aria (2021)\u0000 Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 307 pp.,\u0000 ISBN 978-3-03065-906-6, h/bk, £89.99, p/bk, £59.99","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":"506 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74788902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}