Hito Steyerl: Circulacionismo. Circulationism (2014) [English/Spanish]

“Using video installations and reflection in essays, Hito Steyerl presents a critical apparatus for analyzing the way in which the images produced by television, cinema and contemporary art are inscribed in a visual and economic regime. These are produced, circulated, distributed and consumed in a framework of audiovisual capitalism and form part of different institutional mechanisms of the art world, including the museum. From this perspective, the images are converted into a vehicle of social relations with an ambivalent status insofar as they are both commodity and means of political statement. A second problem raised by the artist is the truth condition of images. Her work repeatedly makes use of appropriated or poor-quality images, together with documentary-type elements, with the aim of questioning the relationship between documentary, reality and representation.”

This book contains Steyerl’s essays “Too much world: Is the Internet dead?” and “Theodore W. Adorno. Timeline”, and the essay “Weather for Liquidity” by Brian Kuan Wood.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hito Steyerl: Circulationism held from 27 September 2014 – 1 March 2015 at MUAC in Mexico City which brought together three of her recent works: Adorno’s Grey (2012), Museum as Battlefield (2012) and Liquidity Inc. (2014).

Publisher Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, 2014
Folio MUAC series, 23
ISBN 6070257545, 9786070257544
71 pages

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L’Internationale, Rado Ištok (eds.): Decolonising Archives (2016)

This publication “aims to show how archives bear testimony to what was, even more so than collections. Archives present documents that allow one to understand what happened and in which order. Today Internet technology, combined with rapid moves made on the geopolitical chessboard, make archives a contested site of affirmation, recognition and denial. As such, it is of great importance to be aware of processes of colonialisation and decolonisation taking place as new technology can both be used to affirm existing hegemonic colonial relationships or break them open.”

Publisher L’Internationale Online, 2016
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License
111 pages

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Maya Tonuta (ed.): A Solid Injury to the Knees (2016)

A book of essays, short stories and speculations on depression’s percolation into politics, its fraught relationship to productivity and its potential for resistance.

With contributions by Florian Cramer, Travis Jeppesen, Nina Power, Joshua Simon, Maya Tounta, and Marina Vishmidt.

More about the exhibition project: DoubleBind.eu.

Publisher Rupert, Vilnius, 2016
ISBN 9786099558721
137 pages
via FC, via Double Bind

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