Intermedial Cityscapes: Re-imagining Gay London in Scott Lyman’s Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (2014)
This essay focuses on the video installation Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library, by American artist Scott Lyman, first exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, as part of the Bloomberg “New Contemporaries” 2015 exhibition. The viewer entered...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:polysemes_6095 https://doi.org/10.4000/polysemes.6095 urn:doi:10.4000/polysemes.6095 en https://journals.openedition.org/polysemes/6095 2019-12-22T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/j6a2 All rights reserved Intermedial Cityscapes: Re-imagining Gay London in Scott Lyman’s Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (2014) Polysèmes SAIT info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2496-4212 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0999-4203 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/polysemes Giudicelli, Xavier London continuity cinema camp queer cityscape video installation dissident sexualities soundscape fragmentation Londres continuité cinéma camp queer installation vidéo sexualités dissidentes paysage urbain paysage sonore fragmentation This essay focuses on the video installation Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library, by American artist Scott Lyman, first exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, as part of the Bloomberg “New Contemporaries” 2015 exhibition. The viewer entered a site-specific, pale pink, neoclassical “folly”—an enclosed, intimate space for no more than two visitors at a time—, in which a 26-minute film offering a fragmentary vision of Alan Hollinghurst’s 1988 début novel was played on a loop. This essay analyses the way in which Lyman’s video installation re-imagines the London of 1983 and the relationship between urban space and dissident sexualities explored in Alan Hollinghurst’s 1988 novel. It argues that beyond an aesthetics of discontinuity, based on abrupt, incongruous contrasts, Lyman’s piece—thus mirroring Hollinghurst’s novel—weaves an intricate web of relationships between past and present, notably through its soundtrack and the motif of dancing: Lyman’s cityscape is turned into a soundscape, reconfiguring the gay London mapped by Hollinghurst. This essay finally contends that Lyman’s piece, in a playful and queer mode, blurs the lines between the inside and the outside, the intimate and the monumental, the individual and the collective, questioning our own position or “situational identity” as viewers and London flâneurs. Cet article a pour objet l’installation vidéo de l’artiste américain Scott Lyman, Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library, présentée pour la première fois à l’Institute of Contemporary Art de Londres, dans le cadre de l’exposition « Bloomberg New Contemporaries » de 2015. Le spectateur pénétrait dans une « folie » néo-classique rose pâle conçue spécifiquement pour l’exposition – un espace clos et intime pour seulement deux spectateurs en même temps –, dans laquelle était diffusé en boucle un film de 26 minutes offrant une vision fragmentaire du premier roman d’Alan Hollinghurst (1988). Cet article analyse la manière dont l’œuvre de Lyman réinvente le Londres de 1983 et la relation entre espace urbain et sexualités dissidentes qu’explore le roman d’Alan Hollinghurst. Ce travail montre qu’au-delà d’une esthétique de la discontinuité, fondée sur des contrastes abrupts et incongrus, l’œuvre de Lyman – reflétant de la sorte le roman de Hollinghurst – tisse un réseau complexe de relations entre le passé et le présent, en particulier à travers sa bande-son et le motif de la danse : le paysage urbain se fait paysage sonore, reconstruction imaginaire du Londres gay cartographié par Hollinghurst. Cet article souligne enfin que l’œuvre de Lyman s’amuse, sur un mode queer, à brouiller les frontières entre l’intérieur et l’extérieur, l’intime et le monumental, l’individuel et le collectif et interroge notre propre position et « identité situationnelle » de spectateur et de flâneur londonien. |
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This essay focuses on the video installation Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library, by American artist Scott Lyman, first exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, as part of the Bloomberg “New Contemporaries” 2015 exhibition. The viewer entered a site-specific, pale pink, neoclassical “folly”—an enclosed, intimate space for no more than two visitors at a time—, in which a 26-minute film offering a fragmentary vision of Alan Hollinghurst’s 1988 début novel was played on a loop. This essay analyses the way in which Lyman’s video installation re-imagines the London of 1983 and the relationship between urban space and dissident sexualities explored in Alan Hollinghurst’s 1988 novel. It argues that beyond an aesthetics of discontinuity, based on abrupt, incongruous contrasts, Lyman’s piece—thus mirroring Hollinghurst’s novel—weaves an intricate web of relationships between past and present, notably through its soundtrack and the motif of dancing: Lyman’s cityscape is turned into a soundscape, reconfiguring the gay London mapped by Hollinghurst. This essay finally contends that Lyman’s piece, in a playful and queer mode, blurs the lines between the inside and the outside, the intimate and the monumental, the individual and the collective, questioning our own position or “situational identity” as viewers and London flâneurs. |
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Giudicelli, Xavier |
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Intermedial Cityscapes: Re-imagining Gay London in Scott Lyman’s Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (2014) |
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Intermedial Cityscapes: Re-imagining Gay London in Scott Lyman’s Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (2014) |
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Intermedial Cityscapes: Re-imagining Gay London in Scott Lyman’s Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (2014) |
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Intermedial Cityscapes: Re-imagining Gay London in Scott Lyman’s Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (2014) |
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Intermedial Cityscapes: Re-imagining Gay London in Scott Lyman’s Folly/Monument; Excerpts from Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library (2014) |
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intermedial cityscapes: re-imagining gay london in scott lyman’s folly/monument; excerpts from alan hollinghurst’s the swimming-pool library (2014) |
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