Curating the Moving Image

The author establishes from the start the relatedness of curatorial practice to artists’ research activity and its outputs into the public and private contexts. This memoir commences in the last half of the twentieth century with a summation of the fundamentals of world cinema and the narrative tradition, from Soviet cinema to Hollywood, through to the European “new wave” and, with the arrival of affordable motion-picture technologies, the interventions from isolated international artists proposing fresh ways to expand the notion of cinema. The recent arrival of the digital projector offered many more options than the film projector or the cathode ray tube for the display of the moving image, often on many screens simultaneously, as is evidenced in the work of Lucas’s partner and collaborator, the celebrated Black British artist Isaac Julian. The emphasis of the narrative is on extended descriptions of the international events and exhibitions, such as Documenta...