Journal
Flávio de Carvalho
Inti Guerrero looks at the Brazilian architect Flávio de Carvalho's designs for a modern man of the tropics: a transgendered New Look that grew out of his interest in crowd psychology and studies of efficiency.
Online
Experimental TV's Long Revolution
Colin Perry looks back at Channel 4's groundbreaking programming of the 1980s, and in particular Stuart Marshall's Bright Eyes, one of the first documentaries to confront the AIDS crisis.
Books
Michael Snow: Wavelength
Michael Snow's Wavelength (1966) is a masterful study of perception: the camera slowly zooms from one end of a loft space to its far wall, accompanied by the sound of a rising sine wave. Elizabeth Legge here analyses the film and the intellectual dramas to which it has played host.
Journal
Performing Histories: Why the Point Is Not to Make a Point…
Looking at Babette Mangolte's filming of key performance pieces of the 1970s, and at her own films and installation work, Barbara Clausen considers the relationship between performance and documentation forty years on.
Online
Looking into the Deep
Is the past 'far away'? Melissa Gronlund reflects on the 56th Oberhausen Short Film Festival's recent programme of films from pre-World War I Europe.
Books
Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880–1983
Darboven's Cultural History 1880-1983 is an encyclopedic installation weaving together autobiographical documents and iconic figures. Dan Adler explores the complexities of the work, making comparisons with Aby Warburg, Jasper Johns and Gerhard Richter.
