Preliminary communication
The Issue of Perspective and Gaze in Dalibor Martinis’ Video Installation The View to Another View
Lana Skender
orcid.org/0000-0002-6666-1325
; Academy of Arts Osijek, Osijek, Croatia
Abstract
Dalibor Martinis’ video installation The View to Another View is examined from the position of the theory of the gaze and through disciplining the gaze with perspective, as well as through the disorientation of the observer by making him aware of the numerous different gazes. By taking into account Lacan’s psychological theory of the gaze and Merleau-Ponty’s philosophical theory of perception and the experience of space, the relationship between the eye, gaze and sight, as well as the ways in which a perspective creates a conflict between those elements, is examined. The perspectives are analyzed in the context of relativist theories which criticize the ideas of an innocent eye, and approach seeing and observing as semantically complex and socially determined actions. By leading the observer through three views which are defined spatially and historically, the author unveils the role of different contexts in understanding the masterpiece in the present.
Keywords
eye; perspective; space; scopic regime; theory of the gaze; observing
Hrčak ID:
194674
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Publication date:
1.7.2017.
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