Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/
- Submitting institution
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Middlesex University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1019
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
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- Month
- February
- Year
- 2016
- URL
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/22776/
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- ‘Desire Lines /Tarot & Chess/’ is a multifaceted narrative film project that integrates ‘cinematographic’ paintings and sculptural reliefs used as props during the production and acting as conceptual clarifications. The film portrays universal patterns of human behaviour through the prism of literary expressions articulated in Italo Calvino’s’ ‘The Castle of Crossed Destinies’ (1973). This is currently the only adaptation for the screen of Calvino’s book. In the book stories are told through the sequential placement of tarot cards that generate contextualised imagery. The interpretations of the cards allude to classic tales such as Faust, Oedipus, and Shakespearean narratives including ‘Hamlet’, ‘Macbeth’ and ‘King Lear’. The film’s storyline and characters simultaneously convey the narrative in a linear fashion, as well as in a more abrupt way, thus interpreting scenes that happen across time and place in an absurd harmony. This is highlighted further by the universality of the themes explored in the film. In my works patterns of fictional and non-fictional literary references frequently operate a deconstruction of the narrative element of an image or object, and comment on theoretical discourses within contemporary art and cultural production.
The project was commissioned by Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp and produced by Platform 0090 and FLACC with the additional support of SAHA, Istanbul, and Middlesex University, London. The film was premiered in 2016 at Extra City Kunsthal, and then exhibited in solo exhibitions at Rampa Gallery (2016), and BüroSarigedik - Bilsart, Istanbul (2017). Moreover, the film was selected for the Artists’ Film International 2020 under the theme of ‘Language’, and presented worldwide at Istanbul Modern Museum, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, GAMeC, Bergamo, and Fundación PRÓA, Buenos Aires. Other partners of the project include Project 88, Mumbai, KMW Art Centre, Beijing and Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas among others.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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