Retromediation Revisited, Material and Film Aesthetics, and Tacita Dean

So, I kinda-sorta ended up trying to answer my own question that I suggested a few weeks ago regarding the possibility of there being something I called ‘retromediation.’

I ended up defining retromediation as the intentional return to an earlier or old(er) form of media for the very material qualities of production that such a medium possesses. 

In so doing I hit upon the work of Tacita Dean who happens to have been the latest artists to be invited to install her work in the grand Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern here in London. While the physical jump from my classroom door to the work of Tacita Dean was only a few feet, I’m hoping that the conceptual one I took was a little bit greater. If a muddled academic mix of media and art theory with a healthy dose of neologisms are your thing then please read on. 

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