Hito Steyerl
Born |
September 17, 1966 Munich, West Germany (today Germany) |
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Lives in | Berlin, Germany |
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Hito Steyerl (1966, Munich) works as a filmmaker, philosopher, and cultural critic. She roots her investigative practice in the proliferation of digital images and the large-scale implications of such circumstances. Steyerl’s work takes the form of essays, lectures, installations, video, and photography.
Considering such topics as the ways in which money enters and influences the art world, post-structural philosophy, free ports, and military propaganda, Steyerl’s practice is both acutely political and timely. In addition to teaching, she co-founded the Research Center for Proxy Politics, together with Vera Tollmann and Boaz Levin. Operating from 2014 through 2017, the organisation hosted lectures and discussions on various topics, including the potential for resistance within a networked society and the role of art in emergency situations.
Steyerl's works were shown at the 3rd Berlin Biennale (2004), Manifesta 5 (2004), documenta 12 (2007), the Shanghai Biennale (2008) and in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015.
She studied in Tokyo, Munich, and Vienna before moving to Berlin, where she lives and works today. (2017)
Films, installations[edit]
- Deutschland und das Ich, 1994, 42 min.
- Land des Lächelns / Land of Smiles, 1996, 2 min.
- Babenhausen, 1997, 4 min.
- Die leere Mitte / The Empty Center, 1998, 62 min.
- Normalität 1-10 / Normality 1–10, 1999, 32 min.
- Europas Traum / Europe’s Dream, 2001, 80 min.
- Euroscapes, 2003. Shown at 3rd Berlin Biennale, 2004.
- November, 2004, 25 min. [1]. Shown at Manifesta 5 in San Sebastian.
- Journal #1—An Artist's Impression, 2007, 21 min.
- Red Alert, 2007. Shown at documenta 12.
- Lovely Andrea, 2007, 30 min. Shown at documenta 12.
- Do you speak Spamsoc, 2008.
- Red Alert 2, 2008.
- In/Dependence, 2008, 6 min.
- After the Crash, 2009, 7 min.
- The Building, 2009.
- In Free Fall, 2010, 32 min.
- Strike, 2010, 1 min.
- Abstract, 2012, 5 min.
- Adorno's Grey, 2012, 14 min.
- Guards, 2012, 20 min.
- How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013, 16 min.
- Is the Museum a Battlefield?, 2013, 36 min.
- Liquidity Inc., 2014, 30 min.
- Factory of the Sun, 2015, 23 min. Presented in the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015.
- The Tower, 2015, 8 min. 3-channel video installation, environment, HD video, color, sound. Shown at 9. Berlin Biennale 2016.
- ExtraSpaceCraft, 2016, 12'30". 3-channel video installation, environment, HD video, color, sound. Shown at 9. Berlin Biennale 2016.
- Hell Yeah We Fuck Die, 2016. Shown at the Sao Paolo Biennale, 2016.
- City of Broken Windows, 2018.
- with Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze, Miloš Trakilović Mission Accomplished: BELANCIEGE, 2019.
- This Is the Future, 2019.
- SocialSim, 2020.
- Animal Spirits, 2022. Commissioned for Steyerl's solo exhibition at MMCA Seoul.
Lectures (video)[edit]
- On Documenting (Truth and Politics), Undercurrents series, BAK, Utrecht, Nov 2005, 43 min.
- In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment, 2nd Former West Congress, Istanbul Technical University, Nov 2010, 39 min.
- I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production, Former West Research Congresses, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 18 Mar 2013, 29 min.
- How Not to Be Seen, The Photographic Universe II, Parsons the New School for Design, New York, Apr 2013. [2]
- Is the Museum a Battlefield?, 13th Istanbul Biennial, 2013, 36 min.
- The Terror of Total Dasein, Former West meeting, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Oct 2015, 46 min.
- Why Games? Can People in the Art World Think?, LOOP Festival, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 2016, 77 min.
- Bubble Vision, STAMPS School of Art & Design, 2018, 44 min.
- The Language of Broken Glass, Opening Days of The New Alphabet program, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Jan 2019, 26 min. [3]
Monographs, catalogues[edit]
- editor, with Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? Postkoloniale Kritik und Migration, Münster: Unrast, 2003, 296 pp; repr., 2012. TOC. [4] (German)
- Die Farbe der Wahrheit. Dokumentarismen im Kunstfeld, Vienna: Turia + Kant (republicart 8), 2008, 157 pp. [5] [6] (German)
- Jinsil ui saek [진실의 색: 미술 분야의 다큐멘터리즘], Seoul: Workroom (워크룸 프레스), 2019, 254 pp. (Korean)
- editor, with Maria Lind, The Green Room: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1, Berlin: Sternberg, and Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art/Bard College, 2008, 231 pp. Introduction. [7] Exh. catalogue. (English)
- Hito Steyerl, ed. & intro. Marius Babias, Cologne: Walther König, 2010, 196 pp. Texts by T.J. Demos and Bert Rebhandl. Exh. held at n.b.k. Berlin, 29 Aug-18 Oct 2009. [8] (German)/(English)
- Hito Steyerl: Seven Seconds from the Exhibition, intro. Tone Hansen, Høvikodden: Henie Onstad Art Centre, 2010, 93 pp. Essays by Pablo Lafuente, Hito Steyerl, and Maria Muhle. Exh. held 20 May-15 Aug 2010. [9] (English)
- Ricochet #3. Hito Steyerl, ed. Michael Buhrs, Munich: Museum Villa Stuck, 2010, 48 pp. Text by Michael Buhrs, interview with Steyerl. Exh. held 22 Jul-26 Sep 2010. [10] (German)/(English)
- The Wretched of the Screen, intro. Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Berlin: Sternberg (e-flux journal), 2012, 198 pp. (English)
- Los condenados de la pantalla, trans. Marcelo Expósito, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2014, 204 pp. (Spanish)
- Sŭk'ŭrin ŭi ch'ubangjadŭl [히토 슈타이얼, 〈스크린의 추방자들〉], Seoul: Workroom, 2016, 296 pp; rev.ed., 2018, 328 pp. [11] [12] (Korean)
- Χίτο Στέγιερλ, Της οθόνης οι κολασμένες, trans. Κριστιάνα Κυρίτση and Στέφανος Ρέγκας, Athens: Topovoros, 2018, 128 pp. Publisher. (Greek)
- Hito Steyerl, Chicago: Art Institute Chicago, 2013, [10] pp. Exh. brochure; exh. held 1 Nov 2012-27 Jan 2013. (English)
- Circulacionismo. Circulationism, Mexico, DF: MUAC, 2014, 71 pp. (Spanish)/(English)
- Hito Steyerl, New York: Artists Space, 2015. Online anthology of 15 essays published in transversal and e-flux. Exh. held 8 Mar-24 May 2015. (English)
- Left To Our Own Devices, Berlin: KOW, 2015, 14 pp. Exh. booklet. Text by Alexander Koch. Exh. held at KOW, 17 Sep-5 Dec 2015. (English)/(German)
- Duty-Free Art, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2015, 173 pp. Exh. held 11 Nov 2015-21 Mar 2016. (Spanish)/(English)
- Jenseits der Repräsentation / Beyond Representation. Essays 1999-2009, ed. Marius Babias, Cologne: Walther König (n.b.k. Diskurs 4), 2016, 272 pp. With contributions by Thomas Elsässer, Simon Sheik. TOC. [13] (English)/(German)
- Dincolo de reprezentare: eseuri, 1999-2009, trans. Andrei Anastasescu, Cluj: IDEA Design & Print, 2017, 168 pp. Publisher. (Romanian)
- Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, London: Verso, 2017, 244 pp. (English)
- Duty Free Art : Kunst in Zeiten des globalen Bürgerkriegs, Zürich: Diaphanes, 2018, 256 pp. (German)
- Arte duty free: el arte en la era de la guerra civil planetaria, trans. Fernando Bruno, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2018, 286 pp. (Spanish)
- Duty free art: l'arte nell'epoca della guerra civile planetaria, trans. Nicoletta Poo, Milan: Johan & Levi, 2018, 209 pp. (Italian)
- Toldfri kunst: kunst i den verdensomspændende borgerkrigs tidsalder, trans. Peter Borum, Copenhagen: Information, 2020, 244 pp. Publisher. (Danish)
- De l'art en duty free: l'art à l'époque de la guerre civile planétaire, trans. Armelle Chrétien, Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2021, 304 pp. Publisher. (French)
- Myeonse misul [면세 미술: 지구 내전 시대의 미술], Seoul: Workroom (워크룸 프레스), 2021, 232 pp. (Korean)
- Dyūtī furī āto kasareru mono naki geijutsu: hoshi o ōu naisen jidai no āto [デューティーフリー・アート:課されるものなき芸術 : 星を覆う内戦時代のアート], Tokyo: Firumuātosha (フィルムアート社), 2021, 382 pp. (Japanese)
- Umění bez daně. Umění v éře planetární občanské války, trans. Vít Bohal, Prague: VVP AVU, 2023, 200 pp. Publisher. [14] (Czech)
- Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun, Copenhagen: Billedkunstskolernes Forlag, 2017, 59 pp. Exh. catalogue. (Danish)/(English)
- with Clemens Apprich, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, and Florian Cramer, Pattern Discrimination, Lüneburg: meson press & University of Minnesota Press, 2018, xii+123 pp. (English)
- Hito Steyerl: The City of Broken Windows, eds. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marianna Vecellio, Milan: Skira, 2019, 208 pp. Publisher. (Italian)
- Hito Steyerl: The City of Broken Windows, Milan: Skira, 2019, 208 pp. Publisher. (English)
- Rūam botkhwām khō̜ng Hito Chataiyœ̄n: praden chai chai khō̜ng yuk rūamsamai nai khwāmkīeodō̜ng khō̜ng #theknōlōyī #sinlapa læ # kānthahān [รวมบทความของฮิโตะ ชไตเยิร์ล : ประเด็นชั่ยๆ ของยุคร่วมสมัยในความเกี่ยวดองของ #เทคโนโลยี #ศิลปะ และ #การทหาร], trans. อธิป จิตตฤกษ์, เก่งกิจ กิติเรียงลาภ และพนา กันธา, and จุฑา สุวรรณมงคล, Krung Thēp: Sō̜i (ซอย), 2563 [2020], 363+[27] pp. Publisher. (Thai)
- Formations en mouvement: textes choisis, eds. & intro. Florian Ebner and Marcella Lista, trans. Armelle Chrétien, Christophe Jouanlanne, and Nicole Viaud, Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, and Leipzig: Spector Books, 2021, 340 pp. Publisher. (French)
- Hito Steyerl: This Is the Future, ed. Adelina Vlas, Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, and Munich: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2019, 196 pp. Essays by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brian Droitcour, Adelina Vlas. Exh. held 24 Oct 2019-23 Feb 2020. (English)
- Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive, eds. Florian Ebner, Susanne Gaensheimer, Doris Krystof, and Marcella Lista, Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Paris: Centre Pompidou, and Leipzig: Spector Books, 2020, 281+230 pp. Exh. held at Kunstsammlung NRW, 26 Sep 2020-10 Jan 2021, and Centre Pompidou, Paris, 3 Feb-7 Jun 2021. Publisher. Publisher. (German)/(English)
- Hito Steyerl: I Will Survive: Espaces physiques et virtuels, Leipzig: Spector Books, 2021, 281+230 pp. Publisher. (French)/(English)
Book chapters, articles[edit]
- 2000s
- "The (W)hole of Babel. Magische Geografien des Globalen", Springerin 1, 1999; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 73-79. (German)
- "The (W)hole of Babel: Magic Geographies of the Global", in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 197-203. (English)
- "Lacrimosa. »Dark Matters« – Shaheen Meralis Tableaus rassistischer Verhältnisse", Springerin 1, 2000. (German)
- "Kultur und Verbrechen", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Oct 2000; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 84-88. (German)
- "Culture and Crime", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Oct 2000; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 208-211; repr., e-flux Notes, May 2022. (English)
- "Multikulti, Lenin Style. Auf Messers Schneide: Inter-Nationalismus", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jan 2001. (German)
- "Expo 2000: A Bourgeois Utopia", in Gallery (Dante) Marino Cettina: Future Perspectives, eds. Marina Grzinic, et al., Umag, 2001; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 212-221. (English)
- "Expo 2000: eine bürgerliche Utopie", in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 89-99. (German)
- "Haunting Humanism", in Wie wird man fremd?, ed. Jour fixe initiative Berlin, Freiburg: Unrast, 2001, pp 153-171.
- "Ones and Zeros", in First Story: Women Building New Narratives for the Twenty-First Century, vol. 2, ed. Ute Meta Bauer, Cologne: Walther König, 2002. (English)
- "Reise und Rasse", in Im Handgepäck Rassismus: Beiträge zu Tourismus und Kultur, eds. Martina Backes, Tina Goethe, Stephan Günther, and Rosaly Magg, Freiburg: Informationszentrum Dritte Welt, 2002, pp 19-42. (German)
- "Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? Postkoloniale Kritik", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2002; repr. in Globalisierung / Hierarchisierung: Zur Konstruktion und Funktion kultureller Dominanzen, eds. Beatrice von Bismarck and Irene Below, Marburg: Jonas, 2004, pp 39-44; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 80-83. [15] (German)
- "Can the Subaltern speak German? Postcolonial Critique", trans. Aileen Derieg, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2002; repr. in Musen und Mythen 10, ed. Sigrid Haase, Berlin: University of the Arts, 2003, pp 121-129; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 204-207. [16] (English)
- "Can the Subaltern speak German? Critique post-coloniale", trans. Francisco Padilla, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2002. [17] (French)
- "Can the Subaltern speak German? Postkolonijalna kritika", trans. Boris Buden, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2002. (Croatian)
- "Die Artikulation des Protestes", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Sep 2002; repr. in Transversal. Kunst und Globalisierungskritik, ed. Gerald Raunig, Vienna: Turia+Kant (republicart), 2003, pp 19-28; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 25-31. [18] (German)
- "The Articulation of Protest", trans. Aileen Derieg, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Sep 2002; repr. in Tester, eds. Fundación Rodríguez and Arteleku, San Sebastian: Arteleku, 2004, pp 34-41; repr. in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 154-159. (English)
- "La articulación de la protesta", trans. Marcelo Expósito, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, [Sep 2002]; repr. in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "L'articulation de la contestation", trans. Julie Bingen, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Sep 2002. (French)
- "Artikulacija protesta", trans. Boris Buden, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Sep 2002. (Croatian)
- "Protestonun Eklemlenmesi", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Sep 2002. (Turkish)
- "Protestaren artikulazida", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, [Sep 2002]. (Basque)
- "مفصلبندیِ اعتراض", trans. Iman Ganji, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, [Sep 2002]. (Persian)
- "Protestens artikulation", trans. Anders Karlin, Walden 9/10, 2018, pp. 115-123. (Swedish)
- "Postkolonialismus und Biopolitik", in Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? Postkoloniale Kritik und Migration, eds. Hito Steyerl and Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez, Münster: Unrast, 2003, pp 38-55. (German)
- "Framing Globalities", in Gouvernementalität, eds. Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez and Marianne Pieper, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 2003, pp 32-37.
- "Politik der Wahrheit. Dokumentarismen im Kunstfeld", Springerin 3, 2003. (German)
- "Politics of Truth: Documentarism in the Art Field", trans. Aileen Derieg, Springerin 3, 2003. (English)
- "Dokumentarismus als Politik der Wahrheit", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2003; repr. in Bildräume und Raumbilder. Repräsentationskritik in Film und Aktivismus, ed. Gerald Raunig, Vienna: Turia + Kant (republicart), 2004; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 57-63. [19] (German)
- "Documentarism as Politics of Truth", trans. Aileen Derieg, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2003; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 181-187. (English)
- "Le documentarisme en tant que politique de la vérité", trans. Yasemin Vaudable, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2003. (French)
- "Dokumentarism som sanningspolitik", trans. Nina Katarina Karlsson, Ord & Bild 5: "Dokument, Dokumentär, Dokumentation", 2010, pp 26-32. [20] (Swedish)
- "Das Babelfights-Syndrom. Kinoki Lumal", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2003. (German)
- "The Empty Center", in In Stuff It: The Video Essay in the Digital Age, ed. Ursula Biemann, Zurich: Voldemeer, and Vienna: Springer, 2003, pp 46-54. (English)
- "Gaps and Potentials: The Exhibition "Heimat Kunst": Migrant Culture as an Allegory of the Global Market", New German Critique 92: "Multicultural Germany: Art, Performance and Media", Spring-Summer 2004, pp 159-168. [21] (English)
- "Dokumentarismus und Dokumentalität", in Die Visualität der Theorie vs. Die Theorie der Visualität, eds. Nina Möntmann and Dorothee Richter, Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2004, pp 141-160. (German)
- "The Violence of Images: Documentarism and Documentality", in Concerning War: A Critical Reader, eds. Maria Hlavajova and Jill Winder, Utrecht: BAK, and Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2006; 2nd ed. as Concerning War: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, 2010. [22] [23] [24] (English)
- "Dokumentation och dokumentalitet", trans. Daniel Holdenmark and Michael Ranta, in Konst, makt och politik, ed. Simon Sheikh, Stockholm: Raster, 2007, pp 214-237. (Swedish)
- "Euroscapes", in 3 Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, ed. Ute Meta Bauer, Cologne: Walter König, 2004, pp 22-27.
- "Fiktion Europa", in Das Neue Europa, eds. Marius Babias and Dan Perjovshi, Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2005, pp 65-73. (German)
- "Mimesis und Anpassung", in Filmriss, ed. Willi Bischof. Münster: Unrast, 2005, pp 29-38. (German)
- "White Cube and Black Box", in Mythen, Masken und Subjekte. Kritische Weißseinsforschung in Deutschland, eds. Susan Arndt, Maureen Maisha Eggers, Grada Kilomba, and Peggy Piesche, Münster: Unrast, 2005, pp 135-144. (German)
- "The Institution of Critique", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jan 2006; repr. in Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique, eds. Gerald Raunig and Gene Ray, London: MayFly Books, 2009, pp 13-19; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 223-227. (English)
- "Die Institution der Kritik", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jan 2006; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 101-106. (German)
- "La institución de la crítica", trans. Marcelo Expósito, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jan 2006. (Spanish)
- "Instituţia criticii", trans. Andreea Lazăr, IDEA arts+society 28, Bucharest, pp 12-15. (Romanian)
- "Die Sprache der Dinge", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jun 2006; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 64-71. (German)
- "The Language of Things", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jun 2006; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 188-195, ARG. (English)
- "El lenguaje de las cosas", trans. Marcelo Expósito, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jun 2006. (Spanish)
- "Le langage des choses", trans. Pierre Rusch, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jun 2006. (French)
- "Mind Wide Shut. Art in the Age of Fear", transform, Vienna: eipcp, 18 Jan 2007. (English)
- "Den Verstand fest verschlossen. Kunst im Zeitalter der Angst", trans. Tom Waibel, transform, Vienna: eipcp, 18 Jan 2007. (German)
- "Die Gegenwart der Subalternen", intro. in Gayatri Spivak, Can the Subaltern speak? Postkolonialität und subalterne Artikulation, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2007, pp 5-15; repr., Translate, Vienna: eipcp, 9 Dec 2007. Excerpt. [25]
- "The Subalterns’ Present", trans. Aileen Derieg, Translate, 9 Dec 2007. (English)
- "Documentary Uncertainty", A Prior Magazine 15, Jun 2007. (English)
- "The Empire of Senses: Police as art and the crisis of representation", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jun 2007; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 173-179. (English)
- "Das Reich der Sinne. Polizei-Kunst und die Krise der Repräsentation ", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jun 2007; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 47-55. (German)
- "El imperio de los sentidos", trans. Marta Malo de Molina, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jun 2007. (Spanish)
- "Politics of the Archive: Translations in Film", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Mar 2008; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 160-166. (English)
- "Politik des Archivs. Übersetzungen im Film", trans. Birgit Mennel and Tom Waibel, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Mar 2008; repr. in Borders, Nations, Translations. Übersetzung in einer globalisierten Welt, eds. translate & eipcp, Vienna: Turia+Kant, 2008; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 32-39. (German)
- "資料庫的政治. 電影領域內的翻譯", trans. Felix Loi, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Mar 2008. (Chinese)
- "Können Zeugen sprechen? Zur Philosophie des Interviews", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2008. (German)
- "Can Witnesses Speak? On the Philosophy of the Interview", trans. Aileen Derieg, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2008. (English)
- "¿Pueden hablar los testigos? Acerca de la filosofía de la entrevista", trans. Gudrun Rath, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, May 2008. (Spanish)
- "Truth Unmade: Productivism and Factography", transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Mar 2009. (English)
- "Ungeschaffene Wahrheit. Produktivismus und Faktographie", trans. Birgit Mennel, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Mar 2009. (English)
- "La verdad deshecha. Productivismo y factografía", trans. Marcelo Expósito, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Mar 2009. (English)
- "Notes about Spamsoc", Pages 7, Mar 2009, pp 59-67; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 167-172. [26] (English)
- "Bemerkungen über Spamsoc", in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 40-46. (German)
- "Is a Museum a Factory?", e-flux 7, New York: e-flux, Jun 2009; repr. in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 228-237. (English)
- "¿Es el museo una fábrica?", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "Ist das Museum eine Fabrik", in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 107-115. (German)
- "In Defense of the Poor Image", e-flux 10, New York: e-flux, Nov 2009; repr. in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012, pp 31-45; repr. in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 147-153. An earlier version was improvised in a response given at the conference Essayfilm: Ästhetik und Aktualität in Lüneburg organised by Thomas Tode and Sven Kramer in 2007. (English)
- Chinese trans., [2011]. (Chinese)
- "En defensa de la imagen pobre", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "V bran revne podobe", trans. Miha Šuštar, ŠUM 3, Ljubljana: Društvo Galerija Boks, Oct 2014, pp 251-261, HTML. (Slovenian)
- "In Verteidigung des armen Bildes", in Steyerl, Beyond Representation, 2016, pp 17-24. (German)
- U obranu loše slike, eds. Ana Hušman, Ivana Meštrov, and Dubravka Sekulić, trans. Marko Maras, Zagreb: Knjižnice grada Zagreba, Art radionica Lazareti, Studio Pangolin, 2020, 21 pp. Publisher. (Croatian)
- 2010s
- "Aesthetics of Resistance? Artistic Research as Discipline and Conflict", maHKUzine 8, Utrecht, Winter 2010, pp 31-37; repr., transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Mar 2011; repr. as "Aesthetics of Resistance?", in Intellectual Birdhouse: Artistic Practice as Research, eds. Florian Dombois, Ute Meta Bauer, Claudia Mareis, and Michael Schwab, London: Koenig Books, 2012, pp 55-62. (English)
- "Ästhetik des Widerstands? Künstlerische Forschung als Disziplin und Konflikt", trans. Birgit Mennel, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Mar 2011. (German)
- "¿Una estética de la resistencia? La investigación artística como disciplina y conflicto", trans. Marta Malo de Molina, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Mar 2011. (Spanish)
- "A Thing Like You and Me", in Hito Steyerl: Seven Seconds from the Exhibition, 2010; repr. in e-flux 15, New York: e-flux, Apr 2010; repr. in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012. (English)
- "Una cosa como tú y yo", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy", e-flux 21, New York: e-flux, Dec 2010; repr. in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012; repr., comm. Ying Sze Pek, in Why Art Criticism? A Reader, eds. Beate Söntgen and Julia Voss, Hatje Cantz, 2021. [27] (English)
- "Políticas del arte: el arte contemporáneo y la transición a la posdemocracia", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "Right in Our Face", e-flux 22, New York: e-flux, Jan 2011. (English)
- "In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment", in On Horizons: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art, eds. Maria Hlavajova, Simon Sheikh, and Jill Winder, Rotterdam: Post Editions, and Utrecht: BAK, 2011; rev. as "In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective", e-flux 24, New York: e-flux, Apr 2011; repr. in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012. Commissioned by Simon Sheikh for the 2nd Former West Research Congress in Istanbul, which took place 4-6 Nov 2010. [28] (English)
- "En caída libre. Un experimento mental sobre la perspectiva vertical", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "En chute libre: une tentative de réflexion sur la perspective verticale", Inframince 15: "L’image n’est pas le territoire: données, points de vue et cartographie", eds. Caroline Bernard and Nicolas Giraud, Arles: École nationale supérieure de la photographie, 2020. [29] (French)
- "Let's Talk About Fascism", in Details, ed. What, How & for Whom/WHW, Bergen: Bergen Kunsthall, 2011, pp 15-19. (English)
- "Digital Debris: Spam and Scam", October 138: "Digital Art", ed. David Joselit, Fall 2011, pp 70-80. The first part of a trilogy about spam. (English)
- "Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman", October 138: "Digital Art", ed. David Joselit, Fall 2011, pp 57-69. The second part of a trilogy about spam. (English)
- "Art as Occupation: Claims for an Autonomy of Life", e-flux 30, New York: e-flux, Dec 2011; repr. in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012; rev. as "Art as Occupation: What Happens to Knowledge?", in Art as a Thinking Process: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production, eds. Mara Ambrožič and Angela Vettese, Berlin: Sternberg Press, and Venice: Università Iuav di Venezia, 2013. (English)
- "El arte como ocupación: demandas para una autonomía de la vida", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "The Spam of the Earth: Withdrawal from Representation", e-flux 32, New York: e-flux, Feb 2012; repr. in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012, pp 160-175. The essay originated as a presentation at the Human Snapshot conference, organized by Tirdad Zolghadr and Tom Keenan at the Luma Foundation in Arles, 2-4 Jul 2011; it is the third part of a trilogy about spam. (English)
- "Los spam de la Tierra: desertar de la representación", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "Missing People: Entanglement, Superposition, and Exhumation as Sites of Indeterminacy", e-flux 38, New York: e-flux, Oct 2012; repr. in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012, pp 138-159. (English)
- "Desaparecidos: entrelazamiento, superposición y exhumación como lugares de indeterminación", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "Freedom from Everything: Freelancers and Mercenaries", in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012, pp 121-137; repr., e-flux 41, New York: e-flux, Jan 2013. Commissioned by Hendrik Folkerts for the lecture series Facing Forward co-organised by Stedelijk Museum, University of Amsterdam, de Appel arts centre, W139, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, and Metropolis M. (English)
- "Liberarse de todo: trabajo "freelance" y mercenario", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "Cut! Reproduction and Recombination", in Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen, 2012, pp 176-190. (English)
- "¡Corten! Reproducción y recombinación", trans. Marcelo Expósito, in Steyerl, Los condenados de la pantalla, 2014. (Spanish)
- "International Disco Latin", e-flux 45, New York: e-flux, May 2013. (English)
- "Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead?", e-flux 49, New York: e-flux, Nov 2013; repr. in Steyerl, Circulacionismo. Circulationism, 2014, pp 28-39. (English)
- "Demasiado mundo: ¿murió el internet?", trans. Jaime Soler Frost, in Steyerl, Circulacionismo. Circulationism, 2014, pp 14-27. (Spanish)
- "Um excesso de mundo: a internet está morta?", trans. Amanda Pietroluongo and Beatriz Pimenta Velloso, Revista Poiésis 23:40, Rio de Janeiro: UFF, Jul 2022, pp 216-229. (Brazilian Portuguese)
- "Theodor W. Adorno. Timeline", in Steyerl, Circulacionismo. Circulationism, 2014, pp 52-63. (English)
- "Theodor W. Adorno. Línea del tiempo", trans. Jaime Soler Frost, in Steyerl, Circulacionismo. Circulationism, 2014, pp 40-51. (Spanish)
- "Kobanê Is Not Falling", e-flux, 10 Oct 2014; repr. in New World Academy Reader, 5: Stateless Democracy, eds. Renée In der Maur and Jonas Staal, et al., Utrecht: BAK, 2015, pp 223-227. (English)
- "Beginnings", e-flux 59, New York: e-flux, Nov 2014. (English)
- "Proxy Politics: Signal and Noise", e-flux 60, New York: e-flux, Dec 2014. (English)
- "Duty-Free Art", e-flux 63, New York: e-flux, Mar 2015. (English)
- "Duty-Free Art", in Steyerl, Duty-Free Art, 2015, pp 111-133. (Spanish)
- "A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War", e-flux 70, New York: e-flux, Feb 2016. (English)
- "A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition", e-flux 72, New York: e-flux, Apr 2016. (English)
- "If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms", e-flux 76, New York: e-flux, Oct 2016. (English)
- "How To Kill People: A Problem of Design", e-flux Architecture, New York: e-flux, Dec 2016. (English)
- "On Games", New Left Review 103, Jan/Feb 2017. [30] (English)
- "Ripping reality: blinde Flecken und beschädigte Daten in 3D", in Sichtbar machen. Politiken des Dokumentarfilms, eds. Elisabeth Büttner, Vrääth Öhner, and Lena Stölzl, Facultas, 2017. Publisher. (German)
- Coco Fusco, and Supercommunity, "Remembering Okwui Enwezor", e-flux 98, Feb 2019. (English)
- 2020s
- "Die dokumentarische Unschärferelation: was ist Dokumentarismus?", in Nähe auf Distanz. Eigendynamik und mobilisierende Kraft politischer Bilder im Internet, eds. Isabelle Busch, Uwe Fleckner and Judith Waldmann, De Gruyter, 2020, pp 101-110. [31] (German)
- with Department of Decentralization, and GPT-3, "Twenty-One Art Worlds: A Game Map", e-flux 121, Oct 2021. (English)
- "Mean Images", New Left Review 140-141, Mar-Jun 2023, PDF. Toot. (English)
- "Common Sensing?", New Left Review 144, Nov/Dec 2023. [32] (English)
Conversations, interviews[edit]
- "Mission Imbpossible: Jon Solomon im Gespräch mit Hito Steyerl über das Projekt „DeriVeD“", trans. Birgit Mennel and Tom Waibel, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jun 2008. (German)
- "Mission Imbpossible: Intervista di Hito Steyerl a Jon Solomon sul progetto da lei realizzato “DeriVeD”, trans. Viviana Costabile, transversal, Vienna: eipcp, Jun 2008. (Italian)
- with Harun Farocki, A Magical Imitation of Reality, ed. Joanna Fiduccia, Kaleidoscope Press, 2011, 30 pp, Log. (English)
- with Marvin Jordan, "Hito Steyerl: Politics of Post-Representation", DIS Magazine, Jun 2014. (English)
- "'If People Want to Oppress You They Make You Say I'. Hito Steyerl in Conversation with Angelica Fenner and Robin Curtis", in The Autobiographical Turn in Germanophone Documentary and Autobiographical Film, eds. Robin Curtis and Angelica Fenner, Rochester: Camden House Press, 2014, pp. 37-51. (English)
- Amelia Groom, "Interview with Hito Steyerl", Discipline 4, 2015.
- "Techniques of the Observer. Hito Steyerl and Laura Poitras in Conversation", Artforum, May 2015. [33] (English)
- "Art, a Test Site: Hito Steyerl in conversation with João Fernandes", in Steyerl, Duty-Free Art, 2015, pp 157-170. (English)
- "El arte, un lugar de ensayo. Hito Steyler en conversación con João Fernandes", in Steyerl, Duty-Free Art, 2015, pp 23-40. (Spanish)
- "What Is Contemporary? A Conversation with Hito Steyerl", Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles, Feb 2016, 58 min. Video.
- "Hito Steyerl. „Die Realität hat sich erweitert, und ich folge ihr“. Ein Gespräch von Katja Kwastek", Kunstforum 242: "Postdigital", 2016, pp 122-131. Excerpt. (German)
- with Anton Vidokle, "Cosmic Catwalk and the Production of Time", e-flux 82, New York: e-flux, May 2017. (English)
- "Simulated Subjects: Glass Bead in conversation with Ian Cheng and Hito Steyerl", Glass Bead 2, 2017. (English)
- "Sujets Simulés: Glass Bead en conversation avec Ian Cheng et Hito Steyerl", Glass Bead 2, 2017. (French)
- with Rojava Film Commune, "The Color of Women: An Interview with YPJ Commanders Dilovan Kobani, Nirvana, Ruken, and Zerin", e-flux 86, New York: e-flux, Nov 2017. (English)
- with Önder Çakar and Rojava Film Commune, "'I don’t have time!'", e-flux 86, New York: e-flux, Nov 2017. (English)
- "Hito Steyerl: How To Build a Sustainable Art World. In Conversation with Despina Zefkili", Ocula, 18 Oct 2019. (English)
- "黑特 · 史德耶尔:如何搭建一个可持续的艺术界", Ocula, 5 Nov 2019. (Chinese)
- Harun Farocki & Hito Steyerl: Life Captured Still, 2020, 8 min. Video.
- Artist Talk with Hito Steyerl, LightWork, Oct 2021, 58 min. Video.
- Kate Brown, "Hito Steyerl on Why the Metaverse Has Already Failed", Artnet News, Mar 2023, 40 min. Podcast. [34]
- Anuradha Vikram, "Internet. “Bias Is Not a Bug. It's a Feature”: An Interview with Hito Steyerl on Representation in the Digital Age", in A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework, eds. Jane Chin Davidson and Amelia Jones, John Wiley & Sons, Oct 2023. [35] [36]
- Ulrike Knöfel, "Starkünstlerin Hito Steyerl über Antisemitismus in der Kulturszene. »Einige halten die Hamas für eine Befreiungsbewegung«, 27 Oct 2023. [37] (German)
On Hito Steyerl[edit]
- T.J. Demos, "Traveling Images: The Art of Hito Steyerl", Artforum 46:10, Summer 2008, pp 408-413, 473; repr. as "Hito Steyerl's Traveling Images", in Demos, The Migrant Image: The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis, Duke University Press, 2013, pp 74-94. [38] (English)
- Kerstin Stakemeier, "Plane Destructive: the Recent Films of Hito Steyerl", Mute, 23 Feb 2011. (English)
- Paolo Magagnoli, "Capitalism as Creative Destruction", Third Text 27:125, Nov 2013, pp 723-734. (English)
- Too Much World: The Films of Hito Steyerl, ed. Nick Aikens, Berlin: Sternberg Press, Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, and Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 2014, 274 pp, ARG. Exh. held at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 12 Apr-22 Jun 2014; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 13 Dec 2014-21 Mar 2015. (English)
- McKenzie Wark, "On Hito Steyerl", Public Seminar, 5 Apr 2015. (English)
- Catherine A. Steinmann, Visceral Exposure: Melanie Gilligan, Hito Steyerl, and the Biopolitics of Visibility, University of British Columbia, 2015. PhD dissertation. (English)
- Soo Hwan Kim, "Sergei Tretyakov Revisited: The Cases of Walter Benjamin and Hito Steyerl", e-flux 104, New York: e-flux, Nov 2019. (English)
- Text\Werk. Lektüren zu Hito Steyerl, eds. Lilian Haberer, Philipp Hohmann, Anna Polze, Julia Reich, and Jolanda Wessel, Berlin: Hatje Cantz, Jul 2022, 255 pp. Publisher. (German)
Links[edit]
- Research Center for Proxy Politics
- Lensbased Blog
- Mastodon, [39]
- Online companion to Steyerl's first mid-career retrospective, too much world, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2014. [40]
- Actual Reality OS / Power Plants OS, Serpentine Galleries, London, 2019. [41]
- Profile on UdK Berlin
- http://www.andrewkreps.com/artists/the-work-of-hito-steyerl