Rosa Barba

This publication engages with a futuristic progressive vision on the condition of cinema. By questioning and analyzing cinema's past and present industry with respect to various forms of staging from the perspective of artistic practice and research, a new space beyond is formulated. The author takes on a journey to reveal an imaginary-astronomical-political trope on and through what can be called the cinema of the present.

ROSA BARBA (*1972, Agrigent, Italien) ist eine viel beachtete filmisch arbeitende Künstlerin. Sie wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem renommierten Calder Prize. Ihr Werk wurde unter anderem im Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, der Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt und dem MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA ausgestellt.

Cover Title Colophon Table of contents Introduction Chapter 1: Speculation on Astronomy and Cinema Overexposure Henrietta Swan Leavitt: The "Cinematic" Discovery of Cepheids-The Flicker of the Stars-A Digression The Color Out of Space, 2015 On Darkness-Cinematic and Telescopic Observations White Museum (2010-): Reordering Cinematic Space Instruments In and Out Chapter 2: The Immaterial Medium that Articulates Space: The Camera as a Drawing Instrument Camera-as-Instrument Drawings Drawing to Trace the Physicality of Time Expanded Spatial Multiplicity / La Durée / Internal Thought / Accessing Memory Landscape as Document Flicker and Algorithm Landscape as Ruins History Is Like a Sculpture: Islands as Monuments of Transformation Chapter 3: Collective Performance as Embarkation: Activating the Subconscious Flicker as Leap Involuntary Memory Non-actors as Documents Fact and Fiction in the Public Chapter 4: Materiality and Machine: Looping and Fragmenting to Create a New Auditorium The New Machine The Autonomy of the Material What do I mean by the activity of "play"? Hyperspace-Referring to Another Hyperspace-A New Auditorium Conclusion Bibliography Works