An artist-led platform reimagining cinema by displacing films from their expected contexts and unfixing the audience’s role. Since 2001, The Wayward Canon has worked across moving image, performance and para-cinematic practice to open up new ways of seeing — where spectators become participants, and cinema becomes a site of transformation.
The work develops a critical discourse around cinematic form — interrogating how films, images and histories are reshaped through their encounter with others. It draws on concepts of displacement, para-cinematic intervention and narrative metalepsis, where boundaries between author, screen and spectator become permeable.
By testing the instability of these relations, The Wayward Canon explores how subjectivity itself can shift — inviting audiences to occupy simultaneous positions, both inside and outside the frame, and to encounter cinema as an active, dynamic field of interpretation.