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Emergence: The Generation Of Material Spaces In Anthony Mccall's "Line Describing A Cone", Su Ballard
Emergence: The Generation Of Material Spaces In Anthony Mccall's "Line Describing A Cone", Su Ballard
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This paper begins from a belief that all media are material, and that in their specificity time-based media can introduce us to different kinds of relationships and experiences across material surfaces and forces within gallery spaces. To this end, it will demonstrate how a 16mm film installation within a gallery space presents materiality as emergent. The paper focuses on an artwork that draws on installation's cinematic legacy Line Describing a Cone by Anthony McCall (1973). Line Describing a Cone is currently undergoing a renaissance of sorts possibly because it invokes a particularly affective interactive experience that echoes many works being …