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Of Haunted Spaces The films of Ella Raidel
Cinema, Heterotopias, and China's Hyperurbanization
by Ella Raidel
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Book Presentation:
An investigation into the creation of heterotopias through the films of Ella Raidel.
Cities today are becoming what Michel Foucault has termed heterotopias, as assemblies of ruins, globalized business districts, ghost towns, and reconstructed historic districts come together in a single place. Nowhere is this more visible recently than in China and areas under China's developmental influence. For example, Chinese investments in Africa are heterotopias because they contain the idea of accumulating different times, cultures, and countries within one place, just as a theme park contains all these different place experiences in a bounded zone outside of its own time and culture.
Ella Raidel has explored these phenomena through film and cinematic virtual reality. In her films urbanism and architecture, theory, politics, social change, and image production are intertextually presented, and open a discursive space for investigation and commentary. In this artist’s book, she reviews and reflects on the last two decades of her award-winning work. Of Haunted Spaces will be of interest to art and film practitioners, as well as students of architecture, film, urbanization, and infrastructure, especially those who see cinema as a way of exploring these subjects.
About the Author:
Ella Raidel is a filmmaker and visual artist. She is assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Ute Meta Bauer is an international curator, professor of contemporary art, and founding director of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.
Press Reviews:
"The book on Ella Raidel's long-term research is, like her work itself, a kaleidoscopic journey of discovery into global shifts, exhaustions and borders." ― Camera Austria
"Raidel’s portrayal of China’s urbanization—contrasting the marvelous images of glassy skyscrapers, super-infrastructures, high-speed rails, and busy seaports that the Chinese state promotes to represent the nation—can provide useful hints for those curious about China. The films, together with this companion book, function as a creative form of critical commentaries that visualize the lingering social and cultural consequences of China’s legendary era of urban growth and global ascent." ― Chinese Studies International
See the publisher website: National University of Singapore Press
See the complete filmography of Ella Raidel on the website: IMDB ...
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