Spatial dynamics of moving images: Expanded cinema in Turkiye

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2024-9-04

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Sicimli, Cansu

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The disciplines of architecture and cinema are inextricably linked and influence each other, mainly when architecture functions as an enclosure for cinema. The architectural aspects of the space always have been a significant element of the experience of the film. Around the 1950s and 1960s, artists and filmmakers challenged cinema’s spatiality. Even though cinema was conventionally displayed in the movie theatre, new milieus such as museums, art galleries, and open-air have become possible sites for projecting moving images. Artists have produced ‘expanded cinema’ artworks that utilize different formats, such as film, video, or multimedia works, to be displayed beyond the movie theatre. These experimental artworks incorporated multiple elements such as moving images, light, sound, live performances, spectator participation, and various technologies to deliver immersive and multisensory experiences. Thus, many forms of dialogue emerged between the artworks, space, and spectators. They challenged the conventions of film and art spectatorship and created different relations to time and space. Within the current literature, architecture itself is not the focus of the studies regarding expanded cinema. Additionally, there is insufficient research on how moving images were embraced by the artists in Turkiye and how the spaces adapt themselves to exhibit cinema. Therefore, this thesis aims to analyze the spatial dynamics of the expanded cinema artworks created or exhibited in Turkiye. Selected works were analyzed, either based on the author’s own experiences and observations during visits to the spaces and artworks or through representations (photographs, videos, virtual tours, explanations of the artists or art critics) if the works were no longer on display. The main focus of the thesis is how these artworks engage with the spectators and the spaces they inhabit.

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Expanded Cinema, Moving Images, Art Spectatorship, Space, Spatial Dynamics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111535

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis