Right before the first boom: The lost stereoscopy of Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada

Abstract

Where does failure sit within the history of research creation and its contemporary elaboration? While the ‘object’, the ‘work’, and even the ‘accident’ have been explored and critiqued as significant concepts for producing an archive of practice­led research, less attention has been paid to the importance of things, practices, collaborations that have come undone might play in this history. This panel examines four historical examples of projects whose realization has been interrupted and never resumed.