ed. by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg ; with texts by Ariella Azoulay, Sylvère Lotringer, Ben Rivers ...[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Ariella Azoulay, Sylvère Lotringer, Ben Rivers, ...[et al.
- Editor(s)
- Erika Balsom, Hila Peleg
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. ; Berlin : The MIT Press ; Haus der Kulturender Welt, 2016
- Scope
- 328 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780262529068
This book collects writings by artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, to investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary. Contemporary art turned away from the medium and toward the world, using photography and the moving image to take up global perspectives. Documentary filmmakers, meanwhile, began to work in the gallery context. The contributors consider the hybridization of art and film, and the “documentary turn” of contemporary art. They discuss digital technology and the “crisis of faith” caused by manipulation and generation of images, and the fading of the progressive social mandate that has historically characterized documentary. They consider invisible data and visible evidence; problems of archiving; and surveillance and biometric control, forms of documentation that call for “informatic opacity” as a means of evasion.
- Keywords
- aesthetics - critical aesthetics , archives , film - documentary film , photography - documentary photography
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 4: Archieven ; Re-enactment ; Geschiedenis
- Remarks
- Incl. notes and Biographies.
