After Cinema
Storytelling in Contemporary Media Art
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Beschreibung / Abstract
An informative, inspiring, richly illustrated book on contemporary moving-image art. This book sets out to use the latest technologies to short-circuit the universally understandable language of the mass media and to make art once again a critical mirror of its time. Around sixty artists from more than twenty countries are presented in eight chapters, that address social, political, and scientific themes (racism, climate change, capitalism, eccentricity, sex, zeitgeist, and fashionable and frightening technologies) in a way that is playful and innovative.
HEINZ PETER SCHWERFEL (*1954) lives in Paris. He works as a journalist, filmmaker and curator, and is the author of books on artists (Georg Baselitz, Jannis Kounellis) and non-fiction books such as Kunst-Skandale and Kino und Kunst. As a filmmaker, he produced films about Christian Boltanski, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Christoph Marthaler, Annette Messager, Bruce Nauman, Cees Nooteboom, and many others, as well as TV series for the art channel ARTE (Design, Live Art). In addition, he curated exhibitions of work by Shirin Neshat, Julian Rosefeldt, and Loukia Alavanou (Greek pavilion, 2022 Venice Biennale).
Beschreibung / Abstract
An informative, inspiring, richly illustrated book on contemporary moving-image art. This book sets out to use the latest technologies to short-circuit the universally understandable language of the mass media and to make art once again a critical mirror of its time. Around sixty artists from more than twenty countries are presented in eight chapters, that address social, political, and scientific themes (racism, climate change, capitalism, eccentricity, sex, zeitgeist, and fashionable and frightening technologies) in a way that is playful and innovative.
HEINZ PETER SCHWERFEL (*1954) lives in Paris. He works as a journalist, filmmaker and curator, and is the author of books on artists (Georg Baselitz, Jannis Kounellis) and non-fiction books such as Kunst-Skandale and Kino und Kunst. As a filmmaker, he produced films about Christian Boltanski, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Christoph Marthaler, Annette Messager, Bruce Nauman, Cees Nooteboom, and many others, as well as TV series for the art channel ARTE (Design, Live Art). In addition, he curated exhibitions of work by Shirin Neshat, Julian Rosefeldt, and Loukia Alavanou (Greek pavilion, 2022 Venice Biennale).
Beschreibung
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Titlepage
- Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1: A NEW DREAM FACTORY
- “Yes, we can”
- The Supernatural
- Forbidden Beauty
- A Flood of Images and Social Critique
- CHAPTER 2: FILM AS ART
- Overpowering Aesthetics
- Sultry Feelings
- True Stories
- Return to the Wild
- Inside and Outside
- CHAPTER 3: POST-TRUTH: DOCUMENTARY FILM AS FICTION
- Archaeology of Damaged Countries
- Archives for Tomorrow
- A Flood of Images
- Individual Narratives
- Staged Reality
- Visual Shock Therapy
- CHAPTER 4: POLITICS WITHOUT MORALIZING
- The Artist as Seismograph
- Activism and Ethnography
- Blackness
- Community and the Individual
- A New Homeland
- An Old Homeland, New Rules
- CHAPTER 5: IMMERSION: A JOURNEY INTO THE COLLECTIVE SUBCONSCIOUS
- Physical Decay
- Mass Media
- Death Does Not Have the Last Word
- The Work of Art as a Collective Digital Experience
- The Supernatural and the Subconscious
- Intoxication and Memory
- CHAPTER 6: MEDIATED ECCENTRICITY
- More Living Dead . . .
- Playfulness
- Social Surrealism
- The Art of the Mermaid
- Utopia and Dystopia
- CHAPTER 7: ANIMATED REALITY
- Beauty and Perfection
- Hidden Images in Movement
- The Apocalypse as Entertainment
- Old Technology, New Art
- Danse Macabre
- Deep Learning
- CHAPTER 8: HOLLYWOOD AS RAW MATERIAL
- Meta-Cinema
- The Movie Star
- The Dream of Hollywood
- List of Reproductions
- Index
- Colophon