{"id":426,"date":"2021-06-14T11:43:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/?p=426"},"modified":"2025-04-09T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:32:54","slug":"johanna-gosse-wednesday-march-4th-2015-1130-100-pm-in-lecture-hall-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/johanna-gosse-wednesday-march-4th-2015-1130-100-pm-in-lecture-hall-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Johanna Gosse: Wednesday, March 4th, 2015, 11:30-1:00 pm in Lecture Hall 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2021\/06\/Johanna-Gosse-bombhead.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-427\" width=\"284\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2021\/06\/Johanna-Gosse-bombhead.jpg 487w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/269\/2021\/06\/Johanna-Gosse-bombhead-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><figcaption>Bruce Conner, BOMBHEAD, 1989, Courtesy of The Conner Family Trust, San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Artist Lecture Series - Johanna Gosse\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LkkaS-61yv4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cBruce Conner\u2019s Atomic Sublime Cinema\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>San Francisco-based artist Bruce Conner made his first experimental film,&nbsp;A MOVIE, in 1958, at the height of national anxiety about the atomic threat. Over the following decades, his films continued to address the cultural and political fallout of the Cold War.&nbsp;This talk examines Conner\u2019s filmic output over two and a half decades, from his&nbsp;pioneering works of \u201cfound footage\u201d montage, to his participation in psychedelic expanded cinema performance,&nbsp;to his more intimate portraits of female friends and later interest in music video. It argues that these works are expressions of the \u201catomic sublime,\u201d an aesthetic that captures the paradoxical experience of \u201cterrible beauty\u201d that is generated by witnessing an atomic explosion. By attending closely to the historical and&nbsp;cultural context of Conner\u2019s apocalyptic cinema, this talk proposes a reconsideration of postwar American art\u2019s engagement with the aesthetics of \u201cthe sublime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johannagosse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Johanna Gosse&nbsp;<\/a>is an art historian specializing in the&nbsp;postwar American avant-garde, with an emphasis on experimental film and media&nbsp;practices. She earned her PhD in the History of Art from Bryn Mawr College in 2014 with a dissertation on the experimental films of San Francisco-based artist Bruce Conner. Her writing has appeared in journals such as&nbsp;<em>Camera Obscura<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>MIRAJ: Moving Image Review &amp; Art Journal<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Radical History Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Journal of Black Mountain College Studies<\/em>, various exhibition catalogues, and&nbsp;<em>Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art<\/em>, an edited collection forthcoming from the University of California Press in 2015. You can read more about past work and current projects at:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johannagosse.com\/\">www.johannagosse.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBruce Conner\u2019s Atomic Sublime Cinema\u201d San Francisco-based artist Bruce Conner made his first experimental film,&nbsp;A MOVIE, in 1958, at the height of national anxiety about the atomic threat. Over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[67,8],"tags":[3,49,53,18,72,10,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1316,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/artlectureseries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}