Folio 023 Hito Steyerl. Circu lac ionismo Circulationism With work that intermixes analysis and parody, Hito Steyerl has explored the political possibilities of contemporary art from a self-critical perspective. Based in equal parts on research and personal experience, her works always throw the complex relationship between critique and social power into relief by exploring the relationships between artistic culture, the militaryindustrial complex, the institutions of finance capital, political insurgence and guerrilla warfare, as well as the stories and legends of critical theory. Like few other artists, Steyerl has known how to interrogate the place of cultural production as a space that is no longer veiled by the autonomy of aesthetics, but rather, for better or for worse, implicated in the entire framework of the world today. Hito Steyerl (Munich, Germany, 1966). Her films and essays take the digital image as a point of departure for entering a world in which a politics of dazzle manifests as collective desire. This is to say that when war, genocide, capital flows, digital detritus, and class warfare always take place partially within images, we are no longer dealing with the virtual but with a confusing and possibly alien concreteness that we are only beginning to understand. Today the image world, Steyerl reminds us, is far from flat. Paradoxically, it may be in its most trashy and hollowed out spots that we can locate its ethics. Because this is where forms run free and the altogether unseen and unrecognized toy with political projects at the speed of light. It is where spectacle and poverty merge, then split, then dance. Other publications: Hito Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, Sternberg Press, 2013 Hito Steyerl & Maria Lind, The Green Room, Sternberg Press, 2008 Michael Buhrs, Ricochet #3: Hito Steyerl, Kerberg Verlag, 2010 Hito Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, ed. Futuros Próximos, 2014 Artist: Hito Steyerl Authors: Hito Steyerl, Brian Kuan Wood Editors: muac-unam Editorial Coordinator: Ekaterina Alvarez Romero Language: Spanish and English First edition, 2014 Extension: 71 pages Format: 8.66 in x 6.3 in MSRP: $9.30 USD ISBN: 978-607-02-5754-4 Target: University community, academics and interested public in contemporary art. 83 MUAC UNAM Foreign Rights 2015
UNAM Foreign Rights 2015
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