A Blurred Boundary is still a Boundary
'A Blurred Boundary is still a Boundary' surveys five artists’ moving image works for changes in the aesthetic language of their films and videos since the advent of Web 2.0.
When artists’ film can sit amongst countless YouTube clips, or equally be of similar duration, at least, to either a film trailer or a feature-length commercial movie, how does this inherent blurring of boundaries in how their work is received affect the content of the work and how it is read?
The increasing availability of online image archives and blogs makes history easier to look up, than to remember. Writer Mark Fisher detects the symptoms of this constant archiving, unlimited playback and ‘resource bingeing’ in our diffused sense of history and temporality. He suggests that our networked status stops at production: ‘There is peer-to-peer distribution of culture, but little sign of peer-to-peer production.’
'A Blurred Boundary is still a Boundary' looks at how, if at all, artists attempt to overcome this perceived leveling of experience, and slowing down of the modes of production and reception of their moving image work, via techniques of language, aesthetics and loopholes in perception.
Presenting work by five contemporary artists alternately working in film and video, in the studio, with performance, found footage and diegetic recording, the programme suggests how these film-makers might acknowledge the boundary between watching videos on a laptop and in the cinema whilst confronting the predetermined rhetorics of both contexts. Here the flatness of the screen as a metaphor for the leveling of visual culture as anti-historical matter is challenged, by imagining instead the possibility for sincerity, intimacy or an aura, to be reclaimed within the artifice of the mediated or repeated image.
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