German in the UK

Hito Steyerl Exhibition

Thursday 4th November, 2010 to Sunday 19th December, 2010

Location: Chisenhale Gallery, London - Click for map

Chisenhale Gallery presents Hito Steyerl’s first major solo exhibition in London.
It incorporates a series of works 'After the Crash, Before the Crash and Crash' which employs the setting and characters of an aeroplane junkyard in the Californian desert to tell the story of the current economic climate.
The space of the junkyard allows various ‘crash’ narratives to unfold, with the stories of actual crashes and the remnants and afterlife of these machines becoming metaphors for economic decline.

A prolific writer, filmmaker, theorist and teacher, Steyerl’s research and interests cover topics as diverse as cultural globalisation, feminism, culture, migration and racism. Her films are a montage of politics and pop, Hollywood and independent film, interviews and voice-over commentaries, which present provocative filmic analyses of the present.

Hito Steyerl (b. 1966) is based in Berlin. The exhibition is supported by IFA (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and Creative Scotland, Chisenhale Exhibitions Partner 2010: Outset Contemporary Art Fund.

TALKS & EVENTS
Wednesday 17 November, 7pm Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism (2009, Zero Books) and lecturer at Goldsmiths and University of East London, presents a talk in which he asks the question: ‘Can anything genuinely new emerge in a political landscape that is clogged with ideological junk?’

Saturday 27 November, 2pm A panel discussion focusing on the notion of the ‘biography of the object’ with Hito Steyerl, Peter Osborne, Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, and Eyal Weizman, Director of Centre of Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, chaired by Melissa Gronlund, Managing Editor, Afterall.

Thursday 2 December, 7pm A screening of videos by Hito Steyerl and others selected by the artist.

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