Sentences with phrase «medium over narrative»

Not exact matches

From the magic lantern - style innovation of his sculpture installation Six Men Getting Sick to the fixed camera placements of The Alphabet to the rudimentary narrative of The Grandmother (whose heavy's freakishly accentuated jawline transforms his countenance into that of a snarling villain in the «Perils of Pauline» mode) to, finally, the total aesthetic compromise of the shot - on - video The Amputee, the first few entries contained on «The Short Films of David Lynch» imply that there is only one destiny for the medium, whether its evolution is spread out over a century or concentrated in the time it takes for an artist to develop a conscience.

is an impressive narrative experience that challenges players to construct their own story; it may be short but it's definitely a case of quality over quantity and offers an exciting glimpse into the future of storytelling through interactive mediums.

Over the past four decades, contemporary artists have continuously challenged the medium utilized and process involved in works of art; narratives are broken, reinterpreted, and recreated.

The earnest «reflexivity» of the narration, which constantly draws attention to its modes of discourse; the smug female voice - over artist, who bizarrely mispronounces the numerous French words; the use of another medium — in this case dance — to create a kind of abstract demonstration of the film's content — these things all hark weirdly back to the «materialist» theory that influenced art school teaching in the Nineties, and further back to the frequently soul - destroying «deconstructed narrative» cinema of the late Seventies and early Eighties.

Just as Burroughs and Gysin had deconstructed narrative structure through their cut - ups, Hawkins continually reconstructs himself as an artist with a practice that is remarkably unified within constant yet fluid shifts over time and among genres, techniques, and mediums.

Featuring a major new sound and video installation and a large - scale drawing project by Anri Sala, the exhibition Take Over addresses central themes in Anri Sala's oeuvre, exploring the relationships between music and narrative, architecture and film and interleaving qualities of different media in both complex and intuitive ways to produce works in which one medium takes on the qualities of another.

Free of external narrative and made tangible purely through the power of the medium, Bound Over to Keep the Faith is emblematic of one of the most distinctive practices in contemporary figurative painting.

The artist, who as well as working with painting and installation uses writing and photography as a medium, introduces the show with a short piece of prose that follows the rather existential musings of an unknown protagonist over death in the future, five years from now, in a discombobulated recounting of narrative: «Point is: Relativity can not be proven in the court of loss.