Against affirmation. Negation as a cognitive strategy in an art film
Karolina Sikorska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
Using the category of negation, the article analyzes the art fi lms of Maya Deren and Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler exhibited at The Inner Lives (Of Time) in the National Gallery in Prague (5.10.2016 – 19.02.2017, in the Trade Fair Palace). Negation is discussed as a cognitive strategy, which echoes the theoretical concepts of Theodor W. Adorno and Hal Foster. Elements such as the subjective treatment of time, the suspension of logical implications, or poetic-oneiric visions, have been analyzed so as to demonstrate how their meanings help to question the socio-cultural reality.
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