Bodies with Objects in Space through Screens: Casual Virtuality and the Self-Mediation of Laura Paolini's Constraining Aesthetics. Issue 2 (1st December 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zdebik, Jakub
• Is Part Of: Screen bodies. Volume 6:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 87
• Page End: 105
• Publication Date: 2021-12-01
• Subjects: allegory -- Craig Owens -- documentation -- Fredric Jameson -- Laura Paolini -- pandemic aesthetics -- screen mediation -- Walter Benjamin; Human body in motion pictures -- Periodicals; Human body in mass media -- Periodicals; Human body -- Erotic aspects -- Periodicals; Human body -- Erotic aspects; Human body in mass media; Human body in motion pictures; Periodicals; 791.436
• DOI: 10.3167/screen.2021.060207
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2374-7552

Abstract

Abstract: Constraining aesthetics are central to Laura Paolini's artistic corpus, involving the relationship of her body to everyday objects in confined spaces during the time of the pandemic. Paolini creates a self-reflexive simulacrum of artistic experience of body, objects, and space through the interface of digital screens. This article seeks to elaborate how the elements of body, objects, and space in performance, video, and installation art are part of a screenic embodiment when read through the concepts of habit (Walter Benjamin), proprioception (Brian Massumi), allegory (Craig Owens), mediation (Fredric Jameson), and documentation (Amelia Jones).