Exploring expanded cinema through Jeffrey Shaw's Legible City
The concept of expanding cinema emerged in 1960s an 1970s, when artists of the generation attempted to revolutionize the cinema experience. Their challenged the fact that most of the films only provides passive entertainment, as they add elements to their films in order to activate the audience to engage different activities as they watching. This opened a movement which artists challenges the existing narrative and format of the cinema. Borrowing from the Lettrist Movement of mid-20th century, artists break down and restructure cinema in to varieties of inter-media perceptual experience. While discarding majority of the traditional narratives, expanded cinemas presents audience with contents from entirely different creative perspectives, as artist can engage the audience at their liberty. Take Jeffrey Shaw' Legible City (1989) as an example. When viewing this artwork, one of audience was invited to ride on a bicycle set up for the installation. This bicycle then controlled the ...