Oliver Ressler
The global 500
hrg. Oliver Marchart

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Editor(s)

Oliver Marchart

Publication

Wien : edition selene, 1999

Scope

107 Pages, illustrated, 19 cm.

ISBN

3852661080

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Starting point of the project “The global 500” is research done on the websites and the annual reports of the 500 largest transnational companies. The installation and corresponding video are based on a selection of these corporate statements representing different strategies and discourses of economic globalization. In the video (SD, 76 min., 1999) these hegemonic globalization theses are discussed, analyzed and criticized by representatives of unions and NGOs, theorists and an economists.

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Person as subject

Oliver Ressler

Keywords

video , critical aesthetics , installation , economy

Location

Cabinet 7 - 1: Kunstenaars