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19/5/2010

Hito Steyerl

Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden

Film as essayistic collage is central to of the filmmaker and writer's works. She combines own recordings with scenes from Hollywood movies and documentary material in various works, operating within different rhythms and time intervals. Her films criticize an understanding of the documentary image as a bearer of history and authenticity and as an object of empathy and identification. In a time where imagery travels, is being reinterpreted, used and distributed more quickly than ever before, the image as document has lost its apparent authority as a witness. Steyerl also works with the historical avant-garde as a starting point, reformulating it to create new works, something which responds to the Art Centre's focus on the traditions of modernism and the avant-garde. The experimental film and the documentary's move into the art institution also challenge the art institution as such to discuss its own practices of exhibition.

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