Artpress Publishes Second Volume of Video Art Interviews

The second volume of a three-part series of interviews tracing the history of video art through artpress magazine has been released. Titled 'L’art vidéo 2. Entre cinéma et installation,' it covers the period from 1990 to 2000, marked by a cinematic turn in video art. The book explores how artists moved from calling their work 'video' to describing it as 'another cinema' or 'exhibition cinema.' It features discussions with artists such as Douglas Gordon and Pierre Huyghe, who began by deconstructing existing films, while others freely adopted cinematic characteristics. The volume also examines the spatialization of video into installations, with artists like Eija-Liisa Ahtila and Doug Aitken using multiple screens for narrative, temporal, sensory, and cognitive purposes, giving the viewer the role of editor. The book is part of a series that compiles interviews originally published in artpress.