Stuff it
the video essay in the digital age
1st Edition
Published on 29. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
166 pages
978-3-211-20318-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Stuff it" is a profusely illustrated collection of texts by video artists and cultural theorists who illuminate the video essay in its role as crossover and communicator between art, theory and critical practice in all its variations: from monologues of disembodiment to cartographies of diaspora experiences and transnational conditions, from the essay as the organization of complex social shifts to its technological mutation and increasing digitalization.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Vienna
Austria
Target group
College/higher education
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
Popular/general
Illustrations
102
155 s/w Abbildungen, 102 farbige Abbildungen
155 illus.
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-211-20318-7 (9783211203187)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
URSULA BIEMANN teaches at the Ecole Supériore des Beaux-Arts Genéve in Geneva and at the School of Contemporary Art, Zurich.
Ursula Biemann, educated in New York at SVA and the Whitney ISP and now based in Zurich, makes video essays charting the effects of globalisation and new technology on women in a changed world order. Her work has been shown in major festivals and art spaces around the world including the 2002 New York Documentary Festival at the Museum of Modern Art New York, the 2001 Havanna Biennale, and the Biennale of Contemporary European Art 2000 in Lubjana. In addition to her video practice Biemann has worked as both a curator and collaborating artist on a number of large-scale international exhibitions. She curated Kültür at the 1997 Istanbul Biennale, examining migrancy, urban politics and Istanbul's plans to become a global city and "Geography and the Politics of Mobility" at the Generali Foundation in Vienna in 2003. Ursula Biemann currently teaches at the CCC Program at ESBA in Geneva and researches at the HGKZ, the School of Contemporary Art, Zurich
Ursula Biemann, educated in New York at SVA and the Whitney ISP and now based in Zurich, makes video essays charting the effects of globalisation and new technology on women in a changed world order. Her work has been shown in major festivals and art spaces around the world including the 2002 New York Documentary Festival at the Museum of Modern Art New York, the 2001 Havanna Biennale, and the Biennale of Contemporary European Art 2000 in Lubjana. In addition to her video practice Biemann has worked as both a curator and collaborating artist on a number of large-scale international exhibitions. She curated Kültür at the 1997 Istanbul Biennale, examining migrancy, urban politics and Istanbul's plans to become a global city and "Geography and the Politics of Mobility" at the Generali Foundation in Vienna in 2003. Ursula Biemann currently teaches at the CCC Program at ESBA in Geneva and researches at the HGKZ, the School of Contemporary Art, Zurich
Content
Ursula Biemann, The Video Essay in the Digital Age.- Nora Alter, Memory Essays.- Jan Verwoert, Double Viewing: The Significance of the "Pictorial Turn" to the Critical Use of Visual Media in Video Art.- Walid Ra'ad, Civilizationally, we do not dig holes to bury ourselves.- Hito Steyerl, The Empty Center.- Eric Cazdyn, Sky's the Limit.- Rinaldo Walcott, "but I don't want to talk about that": Postcolonial and Black Diaspora Histories in Video Art.- Steve Fagin, En la calle: From an Interview on Tropicola.- Tran T. Kim-Trang, The Blindness Series: A Decade's Endeavor.- Ursula Biemann, Performing Borders: The Transnational Video.- Jörg Huber, Video Essayism: On the Theory-Practice of the Transitional.- Christa Blümlinger, Harun Farocki. The Art of the Possible.- Allan James Thomas, Harun Farocki's Images of the World and the Inscription of War.- Maurizio Lazzarato / Angela Melitopoulos, Digital Montage and Weaving: An Ecology of the Brain for Machine Subjectivities.- Paul Willemsen, Monologues of Disembodiment: Figures of Discourse in Steve Reinke's Video Work.- Johan Grimonprez, dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.- Rea Tajiri, History and Memory.- Walid Ra'ad, The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs.- Richard Fung, Sea in the Blood.- Linda Wallace, Lovehotel.- Ursula Biemann, Writing Desire.- Mathilde ter Heinje, For a Better World.- Irit Batsry, These Are Not My Images (neither there nor here).- Eva Meyer / Eran Schaerf, Europe From Afar.- Birgit Hein, Baby I Will Make You Sweat.- Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Border Stasis.-
Selected Videography.- Selected Bibliography.- Authors
Selected Videography.- Selected Bibliography.- Authors