Radio Pictures, Blank Transmissions
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F22%3A10451699" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/22:10451699 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kb7bwo--6R" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=kb7bwo--6R</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25896377-00102001" target="_blank" >10.1163/25896377-00102001</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Radio Pictures, Blank Transmissions
Original language description
A key aspect of avant-garde practice is the critique of the relation between medium and genre. Following Cage's chance-procedural experiments, Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell explored a radical repurposing of medium as technology, transforming TV and radio from sites of broadcast performance to sources of indeterminate electronic sound and image. This in turn fed into a reconception of the verbo-visuo dichotomy as text-effect, or cinemato/graphy, and a parallel conceptualisation of text as sites of transmission. While new media tends towards instantaneous full-immersion virtual reality, mimetic technologies remain haunted by what does not transmit-between sound/image, speech/writing, and in the work of erasure, silence, blankness and noise (all of which acquire the status of aesthetic information). In this relation I propose to examine a piece nominally cast as "cinema": Derek Jarman's Blue (1993), a 79-minute poetic meditation in the voices of Jarman, John Quentin, Nigel Terry and Tilda Swinton over a monochrome blue screen (inspired by Yves Klein's Symphonie Monotone and the tonal quality of IKB). The production of Blue, in the form ostensibly of both a "transmission error" and a "radio picture," speaks to the idea of invisible cinema. In doing so, Blue harks back to Guy Debord's anti-cinematic pronouncement 'there's no more cinema, cinema's dead': a blank cinema broadcasting from beyond the grave.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60205 - Literary theory
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000734" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000734: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions of the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Avant-Garde Studies
ISSN
2589-6369
e-ISSN
2589-6377
Volume of the periodical
1
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
167-178
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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