Medium-specificity and sociality in expanded cinema re-enactment

In this short paper, I introduce the work of the artist

group Teaching and Learning Cinema, which reenacts

Expanded Cinema artworks from the 1960s

and 70s. I make a connection between sociality

(which binds together artists in collectives and

screening "clubs") and the issue of mediumspecificity.

Re-enacting Expanded Cinema, I suggest,

gently probes at the intersection of mediumspecificity

and sociality. This practice asks questions

about the material qualities of film, video and

performance, and the particular relations these

media carry across time and culture.