India Since the 90s, The Vanishing Point – Moving Images After Video

Rashmi Sawhney

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Tulika Books
13 January 2023

Electronic, holographic & video art; Films, movies & cinema; Popular culture

The fading out of celluloid cinema, and the arrival of video and the digital image, mark a tectonic shift in our understanding of representation as an aesthetic and political act. As the cinematic image, defined by its indexical relationship to external reality, yields to images comprised of zeros, ones and pixels, the ethical contract between world and image opens up a new range of possibilities and problems. At this juncture, from what appears as the vanishing point, history folds into memory, the spectral performs as the material, and copies cannot be distinguished from the original. This volume casts a retrospective glance from this vantage point, tracing acts of resistance and defiance over the last three decades within the realm of the moving image. Visual and textual work by artists, theorists, historians, curators, and filmmakers from India is presented through mutual interruptions and alignments, enabling new readings of our recent past and signalling possibilities for our immediate futures.

By: Rashmi Sawhney
Imprint: Tulika Books
Dimensions: Height: 247mm, Width: 188mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 942g
ISBN: 9788194717584
ISBN 10: 8194717582
Pages: 412
Publication Date: 13 January 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rashmi Sawhney is associate professor of film and cultural studies at Christ University, Bangalore. She writes on cinema and the visual arts and is co-founder, with Lucia Imaz King, of VisionMix. Her curatorial projects include Future Orbits and Video Vortex XI, both as collaterals of the 2017 Kochi Muziris Biennale, and Loss and Transience, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, 2021.

Reviews for India Since the 90s, The Vanishing Point – Moving Images After Video

Lucidly written with examples and illustrations, The Vanishing Point: Moving Images after Video is a textually and visually stimulating read, addressing a complex history of the medium and presents a wide and considered fabric of the world of the moving image practice in India today. -- Prateek Raja * The Book Review *