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Take, if you will, Madame Scudery’s eponymous 17th century French map of an imaginary land, a ‘Carte du tendre’ (a map of tender). Everything is a racking of vision at close-range, because my hand is better than any cartographic illusion. For some, this might come to represent a form of psycho-geography which the art historian Giuliana Bruno writes of in her book ‘Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film’. Here, Bruno explores where knowledge is embedded in the senses and vision is implicated in sensory experience. Her psycho-geographical analyses reflect a kind of lived experience of space that is antithetical to the penetrating, scopophilic gaze of Charles Bauderlaire’s flâneur: Curiosity came to signify a particular desire to know, which, for a period, was encouraged constantly to move, expanding in different directions. Such cognitive desire implies a mobilization that is drift. It is not only implicated in the sensation of wonder . . . but located in the experience of wander
This course will explore exciting ways in which to think about walking in the 21st century and the art of navigation through the films of Joanna Hogg, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Michelle Williams Gamaker and many more.
Davina Quinlivan is Senior Lecturer in Film at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University. She writes on the intersections between film and philosophy, especially feminist thought and film experience. She is author of The Place of Breath in Cinema (EUP, 2012), Filming the Body in Crisis: Trauma, Healing and Hopefulness (Palgrave, 2015), Joanna Hogg: Female Expression and the New British Art Cinema (EUP, forthcoming), The Inner Cinema of Deborah Levy (forthcoming) and BFI Film Classics volume on The Spirit of the Beehive (Bloomsbury, 2022). She has recently set up a network of feminist scholars whose focus will be on Venice.