It considered moving image installation and sound works where the embodied beholder is already prescribed as an implicit presence, anticipated by the work.
Contrary to the uncritical immersive tendencies of film and surround sound technologies, the event highlighted new approaches to spectatorship: modes of engagement whereby a tension is realised between projecting onto the artwork and experiencing a sense of expulsion, exclusion or even repulsion.
It addressed the role of technology and / or configurational properties in structuring this projective / expulsive relation.
Chaired by Aura Satz and Dr Ken Wilder.
Projection / Expulsion was presented by the Spaces and Narrations research group at Chelsea College of Arts.