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B r e a t h i n g in Apichatpong

Author: Donatella Valente (Birkbeck College, University of London)

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Abstract

By drawing on installation artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and on feminist theorist and media artist Trinh T. Minh-ha, Donatella Valente’s video essay ‘B r e a t h i n g  in  Apichatpong’ reflects on the technical abilities of the video camera to ‘breathe’, which is to write and reshape space, and create a woman’s ‘fourth dimension’ where she locates a new realm of awareness and activity. Through her ‘seeing and being’ in the digital domain, poised between stillness and speed, woman thus outlines a new video aesthetic. 

Her video essay is on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6INCp2jq2M

Keywords: feminist video, breathing, video aesthetic

How to Cite:

Valente, D., (2018) “B r e a t h i n g in Apichatpong”, Dandelion: Postgraduate Arts Journal and Research Network 9(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/ddl.693

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Published on
2018-10-01

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