CALL for PAPERS

CAA, Atlanta, February 2005

Sculpting in time and space:
New approaches to sculpture and film

Prof. Ian Christie, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HX, UK
(ian.chrblueyonder.co.uk ) and Dr Jon Wood, Henry Moore Institute, 74 The
Headrow, Leeds, LS1 3AH, UK (jonwhenry-moore.ac.uk)

During much of the 20th century, film was often assumed to be a 'flat'
pictorial art, more often compared with painting and graphic media, than
with sculpture. There were always dissenting voices in these early years:
Andrey Tarkovsky would define his aesthetic with the striking metaphor of
'sculpting in time'. In the last few decades, however, film has come to
be more closely associated with sculpture, and in recent years, it has
largely been through gallery installations not only that the sculptural
aspect of film and video has been demonstrated, but also the extent to
which filmic representation enlarges our understanding of sculptural space.

This session proposes a more rigorous exploration of the relationship
between sculpture and film. It considers how film has interpreted - and
performed - historic sculpture; how film has been used as a 'documentary'
(and mobile) viewing method to facilitate the reading of abstract
sculpture; how modernist sculpture might be considered the outcome of an
interaction with filmic technique; and how narrative cinema might be
re-thought as fundamentally sculptural in its production of dynamic,
affective space.

Deadline: 14 may 2004

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Dr Jon Wood
Henry Moore Institute
74 The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AH