"The Theatricality of the Emulsion!"

This article reexamines the career of Roger Jacoby (1945–1985), an abstract painter and gay liberation activist who became renowned for processing film in his darkened bathtub and for films that featured his partner, Ondine, the Andy Warhol Superstar. Through a consideration of film shorts made in the 1970s and 1980s, the article argues that Jacoby’s principal innovation was the exploration of hand-processing, which resulted in films that resembled abstract expressionist paintings in motion. Additionally, it considers hand-processing as an overlooked, albeit powerful, vehicle for expressing non-normative sexuality in American avant-garde film. It situates Jacoby alongside gay filmmakers Kenneth Anger, Gregory Markopoulos, and Jack Smith, and considers how hand-processed media can generate a “corporealized” spectator and disrupt patterns of filmic illusionism and heterosexist protocols of sexual/gender representation.

A Conversation with Annette Michelson

Film scholar Edward Dimendberg spoke to Annette Michelson in July 2014 for a series of interviews sponsored by the Getty Research Institute. In their conversation, which is published for the first time here, Michelson discusses her first encounters with North American avant-garde film, the early days of Anthology Film Archives, and such figures as Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Peter Kubelka, Yvonne Rainer, Hollis Frampton, Michael Snow, Stan Brakhage, Hans Richter, Harry Smith, Jack Smith, Marcel Duchamp, Joyce Wieland, Agnès Varda, Richard Serra, and Marguerite Duras, among others.

Labirinto Concei(Tex)tual em Cosmococas: Fluxus e Jack Smith

<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><em>Esse artigo busca aproximar os conceitos e as práticas presentes no quase-cinema "Cosmococas - programa in progress", de Hélio Oiticica e Neville D’Almeida, com algumas referências do contexto artístico e cinematográfico novaiorquino em que foi produzida. As experimentações audiovisuais e de instalação dos anos 1960/1970, como os eventos cinemáticos underground do grupo Fluxus e do cineasta Jack Smith, impulsionaram a produção de Hélio Oiticica, permitindo traçar afinidades entre eles. Uma vez que as "Cosmococas" possuem outras referências, formando uma constelação de conhecimentos plurais e atemporais, as relações aqui traçadas não tem interesse em elaborar um jogo de “causa e efeito”, mas em articular um aprofundamento da noção de quase-cinemas. Finalmente, para efetividade da discussão, haverá uma descrição das obras que compõem "Cosmococas" em seus aspectos formais e estéticos, a partir dos textos de Oiticica escritos na década de 1970.</em></span></p>

The Sound of Queer Experimental Film

This chapter characterises the music and sound of queer experimental film. It starts out with a historical revision of some social, cinematographic and musical developments that impinged on the evolution of queer experimental film. It then theorises about the possibility of a queer sound and music. And it subsequently characterises three modalities of aural queerness: camp, noisiness and dissonance. These modes share an epistemic uncertainty about the location and the very matter of what counts as queer, so that queerness has to be explored as an open question or a potential frame of reference; as a possibility that is communicated by sound just as much as by the image. The chapter takes as examples of these modes both historical filmmakers, such as Jack Smith, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol and Barbara Hammer, and more recent ones, such as Hans Scheirl, David Domingo, Jennifer Reeves, Luther Price and William E. Jones.

Genderfuck and the Boyfriend Look

This chapter describes the many ways in which secondhand exchange served the gay liberation movement and helped create a broader scope of sexual identities and related imagery, through not only political activism, but by cultural routes such as glam rock, punk, underground art and film, and avant-garde performance art. Some secondhand dressers such as activist José Sarria used secondhand exchange to both financially support gay rights and to oppose homophobic public perceptions. Others, like underground filmmaker Jack Smith and Hibiscus of the psychedelic drag troupe The Cockettes, cited anticommercial motives for seeking alternative economies and for presenting "queer" appearances. Both men and women—like the Bowery-browsing punk icon Patti Smith—displayed cross-gendered appearance, yet public reception of "genderfuck" suggested that men in women’s clothing were assumed to be more politically radical than women in men’s attire. Regardless of these inconsistencies, by the end of the 1970s, a queer, "trash" self-presentation had entered the country’s visual lexicon, and was specifically associated with popular musicians and artists.

A arte transmídia de instalação nas décadas de 1960/1970 e na contemporaneidade (André Parente e Kátia Maciel)

A arte no contexto da transmídia, ao se contaminar por recursos de diversos meios, tais como o cinema, o vídeo e as novas tecnologias audiovisuais, ultrapassa fronteiras, abre passagens e desloca espaços e temporalidades sugerindo a participação do público. A partir de uma proposição comparativa e temporal, este estudo pretende traçar possibilidades dialógicas dos conceitos e práticas da arte de instalação transmidiática de vanguarda que tiveram início na década de 1960 e se prolongaram por toda a década de 1970 – sobretudo os do grupo Fluxus, de Jack Smith, do Cinema expandido, das manifestações ambientais de alguns artistas brasileiros (a exemplo de Hélio Oiticica) e da atualidade, com enfoque em dois artistas brasileiros: André Parente e Kátia Maciel.Palavras-chave: arte transmídia, instalação, audiovisual