Duty Free Art Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
Duty Gratuitous Art
Fine art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
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256 pages / February 2019 / 9781786632449
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How can i think of art institutions in an age defined by planetary ceremonious war, growing inequality, and proprietary digital technology? The boundaries of such institutions have grown fuzzy. They extend from a region where the audition is pumped for tweets to a future of "neurocurating," in which paintings surveil their audition via facial recognition and heart tracking to assess their popularity and to scan for suspicious activity.
In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we tin appreciate, or even make fine art, in the present age.
What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world'south almost valuable artworks are used as currency in a global futures marketplace detached from productive work? Can we distinguish betwixt information, false news, and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring subjects every bit diverse as video games, WikiLeaks files, the proliferation of freeports, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of fine art production.
"Steyerl refuses to nail downwardly a single thought, or insist on a indicate of view. Instead, nosotros get fine art as an act of moral thinking-in-progress. In a very of-the-moment, digital-age manner, the logic of that thinking is fractured, the nature of morality suspect. Merely a belief in the necessity of thinking, restlessly, politically, never is in doubt."
"The highest duty of theory and fine art is to grasp and articulate their own fourth dimension. In our time Hito Steyerl fulfills this duty equally nobody else. Her investigations of the fate of images and words in the age of their global circulation are always focused and precise—but also adventurous, unexpected and fascinating."
"Hito Steyerl's nuanced essays dissect the buckshot of digital information streams. And equally her own art work engages all those digital filters and proxies that scramble and reassemble and generate racket, she as well rehearses another way of thinking or recognizing or laughing."
"Faced with a earth lacking the stable ground necessary to base of operations proper metaphysical claims or foundational political myths, one populated by questionable images, institutions and identities, Steyerl'due south practice—her example—retains a clear message: agency is still possible; ane tin notwithstanding act, if simply to needle and pick at representations in order to expose the weather of manipulation, exploitation and touch underlying their appearance."
"Steyerl'south fine art is extremely rich, dense and rewarding … With Steyerl, y'all tin't always tell fact from fabulation, where the jokes end and seriousness begins, what is truth and what is a lie. A pleasure in art can unhinge u.s. in everyday life, where we are undone by falsehoods at every turn."
"Offers a powerful defence force of contemporary art's capacity to disrupt (rather than reinforce) systems of unequal distribution —of wealth, violence, power. This collection of essays is sometimes funny, frequently moving."
"Folio by folio, line by line, and phrase by phrase, Duty Free Fine art is a existent and disquieting treasure."
"Steyerl emerges as a critic in the tradition of Georg Simmel and Sigfried Kracauer, thinkers whom she credits with analyzing the surfaces of modernity non as superficial epiphenomena or "mere appearances" but equally its condensation and substance."
"[Steyerl] gleefully surfs everything from military three-D imaging and printing to big data and corporate surveillance to computer gaming, finding in disparate events and phenomena the fingerprints of a neoliberal media order in which the onetime modernist notion of autonomy at present refers to machines that communicate in codes."
"Brace yourselves. Steyerl blasts away at the cultural structures that underlie the art globe … [and] rattles all aesthetic complacency."
"Steyerl moves from granular questions of code and data to more than nebulous paradoxes and incongruities, critically interrogating the art world she uneasily inhabits in relation to contradictions in technology, politics and visual civilisation at large."
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