Hito Steyerl: Adorno's Grey - Samir Gandesha and Jaleh Mansoor

source: Simon Fraser University 2014年1月6日
October 16, 2013 - Audain Gallery: Grey on Grey Lecture Series
Hito Steyerl's installation Adorno's Grey (2012) features a single channel video set at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt where Theodor W. Adorno famously taught. It shows two conservators scraping the walls of a lecture hall, looking for the legendary grey that Adorno had his classroom painted in order to promote concentration. The "Busenattentat" (Breast Attack) incident that occurred during his 1969 lecture series, "Introduction to Dialectical Thinking", is narrated and interpreted over the forensic performance. Parallel to the excavation, Steyerl uncovers a constellation of artifacts from the histories of student protests, nude protests and monochrome painting. In her practice, Steyerl employs riddles, puns and word play as tools for ideological critique. In Adorno's Grey, she exercises the dialectical properties of grey within philosophy, aesthetics, pedagogy and politics.

Steyerl is a Berlin based filmmaker and author in the area of essayist documentary film/video, media art and video installation. She teaches New Media Art at University of the Arts, Berlin and her work has been included in the Venice Biennale (2013), Taipei Biennial (2010), dOCUMENTA (12) (2007) and Manifesta 5 (2004), among others.
Curated by Melanie O'Brian with Amy Kazymerchyk in collaboration with the School for the Contemporary Arts' Audain Visual Artist in Residence Program.
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Hito Steyerl & Franco "Bifo" Berardi. In conversation. 2015

source: European Graduate School    2016年3月10日
http://www.egs.edu/ Hito Steyerl & Franco Berardi. In conversation. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS. Saas-Fee Switzerland. 2015.
Hito Steyerl is a German filmmaker, visual artist, writer, and innovator of the essay documentary. Her principal topics of interest are media, technology, and the global circulation of images. Steyerl holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a professor of New Media Art at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Franco "Bifo" Berardi is an Italian Marxist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism. Berardi has written over two dozen published books, as well as a more extensive number of essays and speeches.