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Video encounters through a lichen-covered stick

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posted on 2020-07-27, 14:17 authored by Rebecca Birch
The doctoral dissertation project studies dialogical encounters in contemporary video art practice. It aims to understand how encounters between artists and subjects/ participants/ viewers generate and accumulate new materials, write new narratives, and create situations for new encounters. The project encompasses encounters that take place both in the process of filming, and during screening and performance events. It argues that both the instances of making and showing should be considered events of dialogical exchange where each participant brings their own lived experiences that join and generate something new, something unexpected.

The dialogism of Mikhail Bakhtin is a key touchstone within this project. The project argues that Bakhtin's articulation of the dialogic utterance within a work of fiction (Bakhtin 1981) opens up a new way of thinking about 'dialogical' art practice that is connected to the realm of the imagination. Whilst some theorists have considered Bakhtin's work in relation to the video installation (Haladyn 2014), and conversation in art works (Kester 2004), this project draws upon his thinking to reflect upon dialogical encounters through the whole process of video practice, the filming, storage, editing and the screening. Bakhtin's thinking about the interconnectedness of people, artworks and objects, through space and time, offers a structure for a new understanding of how video captures, stores, moves encounters forward, and re-activates remembered ones.

History

School

  • The Arts, English and Drama

Department

  • Arts

Publisher

Loughborough University

Rights holder

© Rebecca J. Birch

Publication date

2020

Notes

A doctoral thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.

Language

  • en

Supervisor(s)

Gillian Whiteley ; Johanna Hallsten

Qualification name

  • PhD

Qualification level

  • Doctoral

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