Passing. Immersive video and painting installation exploring LGBTQ perspectives.
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-CW3
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Lacuna Gallery, London
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- September
- Year of first exhibition
- 2020
- URL
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http://artlacuna.org/Passing
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Passing pushes Webster and Efrat’ earlier collaboration in Pansy towards a more immersive installational experience, further expanding the field of possibilities within the genre. The intention was to push the boundaries of traditional oil painting on canvas into an experiential, installational and digital context, while also retaining fundamental properties of traditional painting practices, such as narrative and symbolic approaches. The creative process in Passing was to take painting, with its multiple potentials and materialities, out of a binary correspondence to lens-based media. New alternatives to thinking, looking and feeling a subjective connection to painting were opened-up as a space to reconsider painting within the realm of ‘dreaming’ and affective experience. This approach connects painting with emergent thinking surrounding subjectivity, materiality, and affect. Taking Jane Bennet’s thinking on the ‘vitalism of material’ as a premise, this installation creates a space in which paintings have a vitality intrinsic to their materiality in which they have an independent agency and life force. This questions whether paintings are to be ‘viewed’, which is essentially a distancing and passive action, or ‘encountered’, through an acknowledgement of the paintings’ independent vitality and in apprehension of ‘immanent experience’. Passing connects the paintings to the material world of the viewer and renders the paintings re-sung, sensations, in the subjective, experience of the beholder. Each part of this Passing installation vibrates with its own vitality which ‘resonates’ with us when we encounter them; layers of color held together in oil and seen with projected video color, all responding and resonating internally within in the matter of the image/object and out into the world around, though, for example, threads, timber and found images, all of which are imbued with individual affective properties. Dissemination. Exhibition: Lacuna Gallery, Clapham Junction, London September – October 2020
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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