Mark Aerial Waller

Research project: Flipped Hierarchies: Exploring Narrative Metalepsis As A Radical Critical Tool Through Artists' Moving Image Practice

Abstract

My practice-based research aims to critically examine the concept and processes of metalepsis, a condition experienced by audiences through a particular encounter with the uncanny.

Narrative metalepsis occurs when a story's narrator intrudes into the narrative universe, or the inverse. 

Metalepsis is the central theme of an emerging field of research termed ‘Boundary Language' (Kunze, 1998-present) a visual study promoting experiment in critical theory, through interdisciplinary study of topology, architecture and psychoanalysis. My own research seeks to employ this methodology as a means to test ways that radically shift the subjectivity of a spectator of moving image to profoundly reconceptualise the experience of difference.

I shall set up a series of experimental moving image works that radically flip the subjectivity of the audience. The works will test how a spectator may be radically positioned in relation to the screen, author and auditorium, to confront oneself as Other.