Inside the Image – Reading 'RINGER'

Tuesday 8 October, 6PM
Buxton Contemporary Art Gallery
Corner Southbank Boulevard &, Dodds St, Southbank VIC 3006

Cate Consandine’s current video installation, RINGER (10 May – 13 October, Buxton Contemporary), puts the body of the viewer into a physiological and ambulatory interaction with the image. Its three screens encircle the viewer, inviting them into the work, carrying them to the limit of the visual. In this seminar – part interview, part practicum, part theoretical reflection – Michelle Menzies will lead a discussion with Cris Escobar and Cate Consandine that will reflect on the format of the installation and the way it raises fundamental questions about medium, temporality and embodiment.

Michelle Menzies is a scholar and curator of film history and aesthetics. She is a Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her current book project situates Henri Bergson’s visual thought within the framework of mediation and aesthetics.

Cate Consandine works across a wide range of formal and discursive mediums including sculpture and spatial practice, film and performance. She has exhibited locally and internationally, meditating upon the peripheral dimensions of the female gaze, her work seeks to locate experience between stillness and movement, or the place where desire is posited—the edge of movement—and particularly fixes on the liminal body; a body on edge in the landscape.

Cristóbal Escobar is Lecturer in Screen Studies at The University of Melbourne and Film Programmer at the Festival Internacional de Documentales de Santiago. His publications include The Intensive-Image in Deleuze’s Film-Philosophy (Edinburgh UP 2023), an edited collection on Cine Cartográfico (La Fuga Ediciones 2017), and a forthcoming second volume with Barbara Creed on Film and the Nonhuman (University of Exeter Press).

Contact: Joe Hughes