NYMA:
Moving Pictures
Thoughts on “Lost Generation”
The argument this video creates, while possible in text alone, is so much better suited to the realm of video. It’s text and sound in action. It exists without a frame to guide us: We don’t know where we are going as we first encounter the the video. It is a primary example of how text, sound, and movement work together to create and build an argument. Indeed, if we had a frame to guide us, the argument would lose much of the power derived from its surprise ending. Occasionally we want to be surprised by the argument as surprises, which can make us uncomfortable, allow us to focus not on our own counter-arguments but to be swept up in the presentation, offering us a space to play the believing game when so often we have been trained to doubt. Those moments of surprise can lead to moments of spontaneous connection, linking our responses to the speaker’s notions.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
“What I value most is the freshness, even boldness, of some of the writing moves I made” (Wendy Bishop, 2003, p. 574)
