Multi-screen collage could produce overwhelming then tender emotional effects

Evidence

The number of actors on the screen at any time, the constant haunting images of mass suffering; a peace demonstration from Guns coincided with one of the shake-ups in The Brig while The Mothers of Invention poured out their agonies over the sound system. A weird, fragmented, but pervasive image of multiple horror and perception flooded the auditorium. But the whole thing had evaporated in minutes, to be replaced by a ballet of loving sympathy and tenderness. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 966

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in what material conditions made this density of invention possible — here the improvisational collision of film, theater, and music in one space. — connects to: Collage fragments force a double reading against origin and new totality. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 348; Mediatised collage aesthetics can immunize provocation against censure — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1171