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 'The founding aspects of cinematic quality is located not in the recognition of an artistic sensibility or intentionally beyond the screen, as it were, but in the particular relationship supported or constituted by the spectatorial look, between projected image and viewer.' (Paul Willemen 1994) 'The collective hypnosis into which the cinema audience is plunged by light and shade is very like a spiritualist séance.' (Jean Cocteau 1946) 'The physical confinemant of the dark box-like room (of a movie house) indirectly conditions the mind Time is compressed or stopped inside the movie house, and this in turn provides the viewer with an entropic condition. To spend time in a movie house is to make 'a hole' in ones life. (Robert Smithson 'Entropy and the New Monuments' Artforum 1966) Digital cinema will soon enable the lightning, real-time delivery of films and the screening of entertainment from live boxing matches and concerts to Big Brother and Eastenders. With this in mind Evolution's first commission has set the challenge for an artist to research and digitally capture the hidden atmosphere and mechanics of the Headrows Odeon cinema before its closure in late October. Exploring the digital-analogue relationship underpinning cinema's past and future, the commission aims to crystallise the complex relationship between the blissful and hypnotic state of the audience, the residual space of the venue and the imposing lunar glow of the screen. For more information call Lumen on 0113 2469850 |
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