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​The APRIL issue of Journal of Visual Culture is out!  (Vol. 17, No. 1, APRIL 2018)
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Our first issue of 2018 presents a series of reflections that tangle different ideas in the fields of Visual Culture, politics, philosophy, art and science. The topics considered in these articles start as specific inquiries, but rapidly develop telluric consequences: they move from visual representations to larger considerations of economic development; reimagine metaphors that radically transform our visual and philosophical perceptions of the world; or discuss how exhibition making experiments produce previously unforeseen disciplinary allegiances:

  • Hentyl Yapp examines the presence of women on color dancing on film and television to rethink relationality, and contend with how different communities relate to one another through shared sensations, precarity, or commons.
  • Emily Candela, Sean Cubitt, Barnaby Dicker, Benedict Drew join Esther Leslie in conversation about Leslie's book, Liquid Crystals: The Science and Art of a Fluid Form (2016), a dialectic of liquidity and crystallization, of flow and refraction, key to the advent of screen-based media, and to how we perceive, image and imagine the world.
  • Reacting to the terrorist-related murders that took place in England in the spring and summer of 2017, Marquard Smith engages with the idea of observance (observe, care, follow, obey) in relation to memorialisation, remembrance, and commemoration culture.
  • Caterina Albano considers this early use of the analogy of the exhibition as an experiment and reflects on its redefinition at the turn of the 20th century, minding the repercussions of the correspondence between cultural and scientific paradigms in the exhibition format.
  • and finally, Anna White Nockelby examines two early-2000s films: En Construcción (Work in Progress, 2001) by the Catalan filmmaker José Luis Guerín, and Pedro Costa’s No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda’s
    Room, 2000), to explore how these films contest the representation of unified cityscapes, exposing the fractures underlying economic development. 

Contents
Hentyl Yapp
"Feeling Down(town Julie Brown): Sensing Up and Expiring Relationality"

The Liquid Crystals Roundtable, with Emily Candela, Sean Cubitt, Barnaby Dicker, Benedict Drew, Esther Leslie

Marquard Smith
"Observance, Notes Towards Decipherability"

Caterina Albano
"The exhibition as an experiment: an analogy and its implications"

Ana White Nockelby
"Textured Cuts: The Demolition Cinema of Pedro Costa and José Luis Guerín"

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