Elastic Realities - Documentary Practices between Cinema and Art

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2019.152831

Keywords:

documentary practices, documentary theory, decolonial discourse, cinema and art

Abstract

Recently, documentary practices, including those working with moving images, have known an unprecedented boom in the art field, which provoked criticism but also led to fruitful discussions between the two fields of artistic documentary practices and the more traditional documentary cinema. This article aims to contribute to this discussion by analyzing some pivotal arguments of the ongoing debate, mainly the question of documentary practices and their relation to reality, art and politics. For a better understanding of the current situation, the analysis of key moments in the history of documentary discourse is the basis for the discussion of contemporary documentary practices between cinema and art, considering seminal examples combining moving images with questions of performativity. 

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  • Cornelia Lund, HfK Bremen / fluctuating images, Berlin

    Cornelia Lund is an art and media theorist and curator living in Berlin. She holds a Ph.D. on “French Poetry Illustration” and has a long-standing academic career in research and teaching. Since 2004, she has been co-director of fluctuating images (www.fluctuating-images.de), an independent platform for media art and design. Her research is focused on documentary practices, audiovisual artistic practices, design theory, as well as de- and post-colonial theories. Cornelia Lund is the co-editor of Audio.Visual: On Visual Music and Related Media (2009), the online platform Post- Digital Culture (http://post-digital-culture.org/), The Audiovisual Breakthrough (2015; http://www.ephemeral-expanded.net/audiovisualbreakthrough/) and Lund Audiovisual Writings (2017; http://lundaudiovisualwritings.org/). Her work as a curator includes numerous screenings and exhibitions (e.g. Mapping Festival Geneva, Academy of the Arts Berlin, Index Festival New York, Hamburger Architektursommer). For more information, please see: http://www.fluctuating-images.de/cornelia-lund-en 

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Published

2019-05-12

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 35 (2019): Dossiê Membranas: intersecções entre arte, ciência e tecnologia

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Articles

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Lund, C. (2019). Elastic Realities - Documentary Practices between Cinema and Art. ARS, 17(35), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2019.152831