“Rhythms of Montage”

Conventionally within montage theory, attention is placed on the shots that are put together and the effects of that operation. Whether it be successive linear progression, parallel construction, dialectical opposition, or rhythmic interval composition; theorists have tended to focus on the overall resulting image sequence of the montage procedure. Montage is a building process that is based on leaving things out with the goal of presenting a whole or totality. Guided by different strategies of montage, I will examine three avantgarde media works that theorize the ellipsis or what has been left out and why. In each of these cases, I will demonstrate how shifts in technology and exhibition platforms have worked in tandem to rethink montage and restore what has temporally and spatially been left out by the cut and its attendant suture.

This event is free and open to the public.