Hito Steyerl

Name: The Wretched of the Screen
ISBN: 9781934105825

Director

1966-01-01

Books by Hito Steyerl

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I don't want to make films that are so specialized that they're only accessible to people with prior knowledge or histories or references.
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I think art's role is to investigate the way things are comprehended - the lenses through which people see. In conflict, these lenses tend to be very standardised, very stereotypical.
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To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs, parallel pop-up histories and growing income inequalities. Let's add asymmetric warfare, real-estate speculation, tax evasion, money laundering and deregulated financial markets.
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