Conditions of music: contemporary audio-visual spatial performance

In contemporary moving image culture expanded cinema is a far from uncontested term. A number of practices beyond those concerned with the physical specificity of film might reasonably lay claim to it, from those involving multi-screen installation, to online video, to telematic performance, and so on. There is however also a constellation of currently active UK-based artists whose work can be characterised as descending directly, by affiliation or by orientation, from the practice that went by the name of expanded cinema around the 1970s, and which has developed from a film-specific practice aiming to activate the space of reception.