ADSVMVS ABSVMVS: Lecture by Rachel Moore, with Genevieve Yue.
Drawing on Hollis Frampton’s allusive writings on what he referred to as ‘the camera arts’, Rachel Moore will give a talk that addresses his 1982 series of photographs, ADSVMVS ABSVMVS. Following the lecture, Moore will be joined for an in conversation event with Genevieve Yue.
Like his written theoretical work, Frampton’s plastic creations present us with thought puzzles. In writing, he produces parables, dialogues, lectures, formulae, illustrative anecdotes and citations (often of questionable veracity) to make a kind of thought montage. Connections have to be made, words looked up. His photographic work also invariably asks us to work between thought and image, story and picture, with no small amount of mental strain, and like his writing, rewards us with erudition, reverie and wit.
BIOGRAPHIES
Rachel Moore teaches Film and Photography theory in Goldsmiths’ Department of Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies. Her approach leans heavily on the work of the College of Sociology’s sacred in everyday life, and the Frankfurt School’s notion of the radical historical materialist’s task of ‘reawakening’. These interests were initially explored in her book Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic (Duke, 2000). She conducted a study of screens in public places and the concept of Boredom for which she co-edited the volume Public Space, Media Space (Palgrave MacMillan 2013); an investigation of films of ‘contact’ across time and space conducted during her Guggenheim Fellowship entitled ‘In the Film Archive of Natural History’. She has published articles on such filmmakers as Jean Epstein, James Benning, Kenneth Anger and Patrick Keiller, as well as a monograph on Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia) (MIT/Afterall, 2006). With Anke Hennig, she has just completed Salt and Sugar: Mikhail Kalatozov’s Cinema of Excess.
Genevieve Yue is an assistant professor of Culture and Media and director of the Screen Studies program at the New School. She is also a film critic and programmer of experimental film, and she serves as the chair of the programming committee on the Flaherty Board of Trustees. Her book Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality is forthcoming on Fordham University Press.
Drawing on Hollis Frampton’s allusive writings on what he referred to as ‘the camera arts’, Rachel Moore will give a talk that addresses his 1982 series of photographs, ADSVMVS ABSVMVS. Following the lecture, Moore will be joined for an in conversation event with Genevieve Yue.
Like his written theoretical work, Frampton’s plastic creations present us with thought puzzles. In writing, he produces parables, dialogues, lectures, formulae, illustrative anecdotes and citations (often of questionable veracity) to make a kind of thought montage. Connections have to be made, words looked up. His photographic work also invariably asks us to work between thought and image, story and picture, with no small amount of mental strain, and like his writing, rewards us with erudition, reverie and wit.
BIOGRAPHIES
Rachel Moore teaches Film and Photography theory in Goldsmiths’ Department of Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies. Her approach leans heavily on the work of the College of Sociology’s sacred in everyday life, and the Frankfurt School’s notion of the radical historical materialist’s task of ‘reawakening’. These interests were initially explored in her book Savage Theory: Cinema as Modern Magic (Duke, 2000). She conducted a study of screens in public places and the concept of Boredom for which she co-edited the volume Public Space, Media Space (Palgrave MacMillan 2013); an investigation of films of ‘contact’ across time and space conducted during her Guggenheim Fellowship entitled ‘In the Film Archive of Natural History’. She has published articles on such filmmakers as Jean Epstein, James Benning, Kenneth Anger and Patrick Keiller, as well as a monograph on Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia) (MIT/Afterall, 2006). With Anke Hennig, she has just completed Salt and Sugar: Mikhail Kalatozov’s Cinema of Excess.
Genevieve Yue is an assistant professor of Culture and Media and director of the Screen Studies program at the New School. She is also a film critic and programmer of experimental film, and she serves as the chair of the programming committee on the Flaherty Board of Trustees. Her book Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality is forthcoming on Fordham University Press.
Read Less...
