Douglas Gordon and Cinematic Audiovisuality in the Age of Television: Experiencing the Experience of Cinema

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Focusing on the work of Douglas Gordon, this article explores some of the ways in which contemporary arts practice engages with cinema in a televisual age. Whenever one media technology loses its dominance, is eclipsed or replaced by another, we witness a moment during which the passing technology becomes fetishized - a moment at which the status of its images and sounds and even their perceived qualities begin to change. Within the context of contemporary arts practice, the images of a once popular form of cinema have thus begun to take on the aura of the art object, read and experienced in new ways.Understandably, much of the critical reaction to Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno's Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait has focused on its status as a film about football, and as a portrait of one of the sport's stars. The film might, however, also be read as a meditation on cinematic affect and cinematic materiality, and in this respect sits comfortably with Gordon's ongoing creative engagement with cinema, evidenced in works such as 24 Hour Psycho. While much of Gordon's video work has engaged with the cinematic image through the re-articulation of Hollywood films, in this article I examine the ways in which Zidane creates a dialectic between cinema and television that serves to foreground cinematic materiality and cinematic experience. Reconnecting Zidane with Gordon's earlier work, my aim here is to consider how cinematic experience and the materiality that serves as the foundation of that experience might in themselves be understood to constitute a fundamental element of Gordon's artworks.View full textDownload full textKeywordsaudiovisuality, cinema, cinematic, Douglas Gordon, materiality, spectatorship, television, ZidaneRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; var addthis_config = {"data_track_addressbar":true,"ui_click":true}; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14714787.2012.641780