The Transgressively Cinematic 'Watery Projects' by Olafur Eliasson (2014 - ) - Blueprint by Anthony McCall's 'Solid Light Film' Series (1973 - 1975)

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Vegter, Vita (2020)

The Transgressively Cinematic 'Watery Projects' by Olafur Eliasson (2014 - ) - Blueprint by Anthony McCall's 'Solid Light Film' Series (1973 - 1975)

Master thesis | Media Studies (MA)

My thesis experimentally submits Olafur Eliasson’s — what I dub — watery projects frame ongoing motion or changeability similarly to the cinematic image, particularly the selected projects Big Bang Fountain (2014), Still River (2016) and Fog Assembly (2016), yet transgress the customary image. I ask how to transgressively read the projects by their cinematic potential, or, how to analyze how constructed watery splashes, melting ice cubes or evaporating foggy clouds amplify the viewer’s sense about temporality, and space and self-existence. I set my experiment against a cinematic backdrop constructed by multiple considerations and analyses on Anthony McCall’s ‘solid light film’ series (1973 - 1975). My thesis experimentally demonstrates the cinematic potential productively inquires into the selected watery projects.

cinematic medium-specificity

viewer

Anthony McCall

solid light film series

experiment