TY - JOUR
T1 - Expanded Cinema, Recycled Cinema; A Ping-Pong Volley between VALIE EXPORT and Agnès Varda
AU - Scheible, Jeff
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/4/1
Y1 - 2022/4/1
N2 - VALIE EXPORT and Agnès Varda both made moving-image installations about ping pong (EXPORT's 1968 Ping Pong and Varda's 2006 "Ping Pong, Tong, et Camping"), a subject each returned to on multiple occasions in subsequent works across different media forms. Apprehending ping pong as a cinematic thing and gesture, this essay considers how EXPORTand Varda, each in her own way, unsettle and expand the rules of the game in ways shaped by their distinct, and distinctly feminist, politics. This essay explores these works and the artists' repeated returns to ping pong by staging a "volley,"alternating between different scenes and iterations across Europe and the US, from the 1960s to the 2010s. Additional works discussed include EXPORT's 1980s television documentary on avant-garde film, The Armed Eye, and Varda's final two documentaries, Faces Places (2017) and Varda by Agnès (2019).
AB - VALIE EXPORT and Agnès Varda both made moving-image installations about ping pong (EXPORT's 1968 Ping Pong and Varda's 2006 "Ping Pong, Tong, et Camping"), a subject each returned to on multiple occasions in subsequent works across different media forms. Apprehending ping pong as a cinematic thing and gesture, this essay considers how EXPORTand Varda, each in her own way, unsettle and expand the rules of the game in ways shaped by their distinct, and distinctly feminist, politics. This essay explores these works and the artists' repeated returns to ping pong by staging a "volley,"alternating between different scenes and iterations across Europe and the US, from the 1960s to the 2010s. Additional works discussed include EXPORT's 1980s television documentary on avant-garde film, The Armed Eye, and Varda's final two documentaries, Faces Places (2017) and Varda by Agnès (2019).
KW - Agnes Varda
KW - documentary
KW - expanded cinema
KW - moving-image installations
KW - ping pong
KW - plastic
KW - VALIE EXPORT
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85131195328&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1525/fmh.2022.8.2.180
DO - 10.1525/fmh.2022.8.2.180
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85131195328
SN - 2373-7492
VL - 8
SP - 180
EP - 207
JO - Feminist Media Histories
JF - Feminist Media Histories
IS - 2
ER -