[Nettime-nl] ARGOS lecture // CINEMA IN TRANSIT // Jean-Christophe Royoux // 09.11.2007

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ARGOS, Centre for Art & Media in Brussels, presents:

CINEMA IN TRANSIT Lecture
Fri 09.11.2007 // 20:30 // free
Jean-Christophe Royoux
"De l'écran unique aux dispositifs d'images : pourquoi (au moins)  
deux plutôt que un ? Pourquoi le multiple ?"

Starting from the example of Time Square, Jean-Christophe Royoux will  
show how multi-projection is one of the exemplary forms of the  
exhibition paradigm, which has been for a very long time, as was  
shown by numerous authors, poets, philosophers and architects since  
the middle of the 19th century, the paradigm of the modern city. Only  
since 2006 this has become the most widely spread way of life for a  
majority of people here on earth. The experience of multi-projection  
is quite simply a highly concentrated experience of the world we live  
in. Once this urban genealogy is recontextualized and put into  
perspective, Royoux will focus on the pivotal question, recurrent,  
typical of any image installation, of any type of exhibition cinema -  
the question about association, about the nature of a relationship  
between one and the other, which in fact amounts to the question of  
what common means, and what community is all about. In that sense the  
"at least two" of multi-projection is echoed, as was expertly shown  
by Jean-Luc Godard in Numéro Deux, in the typical contemporary  
concern of knowing the circumstances under which we can coexist.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, art historian, critic and curator  
Jean-Christophe Royoux (FR, 1961) explores the in-between areas  
between cinema and the visual arts. This has resulted in numerous  
essays and artist monographs, on artists such as Marcel Broodthaers,  
Stan Douglas, Pierre Huyghe and Tacita Dean, as well as exhibitions,  
such as Multipistes (2005, Argos), focusing on a number of young  
French artists presenting post-cinematographic forms in their work,  
deconstructions or alterations of the familiar notions of projection  
and identification. Royoux sees this “Cinéma d’Exposition” mainly as  
a catalyst for new narrative modalities, which make it possible to  
define the work of art as an intermediary between the author and the  
viewer, a structure for activating reading and experience of the  
processes of thought and memory.

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