Ecstatic Worlds: Media, Utopias, Ecologies by Janine Marchessault
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Overview: Postwar artists and architects have used photography, film, and other media to imagine and record the world as a wonder of collaborative entanglement — to translate the world for the world. In this book, Janine Marchessault examines a series of utopian media events that opened up and expanded the cosmos, creating ecstatic collective experiences for spectators and participants.
Marchessault shows that Edward Steichen’s 1955 “Family of Man” photography exhibition, for example, and Jacques Cousteau’s 1956 underwater film Le Monde du silence ( The Silent World) both gave viewers a sense of the Earth as a shared ecology. The Festival of Britain (1951) — in particular its Telekinema (a combination of 3D film and television) and its Live Architecture exhibition — along with Expo 67’s cinema experiments and media city created an awareness of multiple worlds. Toronto’s alternative microcinema CineCycle, Agnes Varda’s 2000 film Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, and Buckminster Fuller’s World Game (geoscope), representing ecologies of images and resources, encouraged planetary thinking. The transspecies communication platform, the Dolphin Embassy, devised by the Ant Farm architecture collaborative, extends this planetary perspective toward other species; and Finnish artist Erkki Kurenniemi’s “Death of the Planet” projects a postanthropocentric future.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Mass Media
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