Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

LW: There is Nothing to See So We Look

















It's a picture of Eric Rondepierre, it's actually a screenshot (taken with a camera), he stopped the film he was watching just when there was no image anymore, when there's a defect (?) in the film. He calls it a dead angle of the movie system/the movie device (?).

What we see it's a lack/a gap (?), the image missing between two others. It's the trace of what's coming next. The visible is here a waiting. Our eyes, our minds are waiting. There's nothing to see so the audience looks in its imagination, it travels; there's no end in our desire because there's no object to focus on. The dark like the infinite.

He put the invisible in the heart of his photography work, that's what I find amazing.
A timewarp, he cut what was supposed to make sense. There's nothing to see anymore, just dark, so we look into us.
He manages it to produce sense for our looks about something which can't be seen by the eye.
There's nothing to see, so we look.

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