{"id":4626,"date":"2012-09-30T21:08:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T03:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T05:25:19","slug":"october-4-hito-steyerl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2012\/09\/30\/october-4-hito-steyerl\/","title":{"rendered":"October 4- HITO STEYERL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Thursday, October 4, 6 p.m. | <\/strong><em>Introduced by Lisa Dorin, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4513\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4513\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2011\/01\/CATE_Steyerl_InFreeFall21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4513\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2011\/01\/CATE_Steyerl_InFreeFall21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from In Free Fall (Hito Steyerl, 2010). Courtesy the artist Wilifried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hito Steyerl\u2019s masterfully orchestrated video essays chart the lives of images,\u00a0objects, and places to arrive at provocative new conclusions about their meaning.This program features two of these works, <em>Lovely Andrea<\/em> (2007) and <em>In Free\u00a0Fall<\/em> (2010). Through interviews, appropriated footage, and her own personal Super-8 and photographic archive, she imaginatively explores the shifting social, political,and economic implications of her subjects.<\/p>\n<p><em>Presented in collaboration with the Art\u00a0Institute of Chicago&#8217;s Department of Contemporary Art, which presents &#8220;focus: Hito<br \/>\nSteyerl\u201d November 1 2012 -January 27, 2013. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>HITO STEYERL <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: left\">(b. 1966, Munich, Germany) is a video artist, filmmaker, theorist, author, and journalist. Her work has been featured at big exhibitions such as the 2004 Berlin Biennial, Manifesta 5, 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam, documenta 12, and the 2008 Shanghai Biennial. She holds a PhD in philosophy and works on the borderline between cinema and visual art, combining elements of experimental film, auteur cinema, documentary, and video art to undertake cutting post-colonial and feminist critiques of representation. She is a professor for media art at the University of Arts Berlin and has taught film and theory at (amongst other institutions) Goldsmiths College and Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, October 4, 6 p.m. | Introduced by Lisa Dorin, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago Hito Steyerl\u2019s masterfully orchestrated video essays chart the lives of images,\u00a0objects, and places to arrive at provocative new conclusions about their meaning.This program features two of these works, Lovely Andrea (2007) and In Free\u00a0Fall [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2012\/09\/30\/october-4-hito-steyerl\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from October 4- HITO STEYERL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":4512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[203,206,423,450,476],"class_list":["post-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17","tag-essay-film","tag-europe","tag-monographic-shows","tag-non-fiction","tag-political"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}