Enchanted encounters: moving images, public art and an ethical sense of place

Abstract

This article examines site-specific moving images, particularly public artworks that engage windows and monuments as cinematic screens. Employing the concept of enchantment and Doreen Massey’s notion of a ‘global sense of place’, this article analyses how the physical experience of moving image media in public places can enrich and complicate our understanding of place. Artworks by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ofri Cnaani, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Tony Oursler are explored, in addition to recent protest projections and critical and theoretical investigations of place and enchantment.

Keywords

• public art
• moving image
• video art
• expanded cinema
• Krzysztof Wodiczko
• Lynn Hershman Leeson