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The Conundrum of Medium Specificity: How can the Engagement with a Postmodern Juxtaposition of Media also Promote Medium Specificity?

Drawing from the author’s practice-based research into the juxtaposition of painting, photography and video, the paper argues that medium specificity has not lost its relevance, but needs to be addressed within a postmodern context of media juxtaposition. Amongst various theoretical positions reflecting on the role of the medium, Galvano Della Volpe’s ‘semantic difference’ deals with the translatability between media. The discussion is elucidated through case studies of artists working across media involving dialectics of index and icon, and also through an appraisal of the author’s exhibition installations where each medium contributes to a differentiated appreciation of the time-space relation.