Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Patterson, Zabet | Uroskie, Andrew V
Date
2016-12-01
Keywords
contemporary, documentary, duty-free, Hito Steyerl, Rancière, video art | Art history -- Art criticism | contemporary, documentary, duty-free, Hito Steyerl, Rancière, video art
Department
Department of Art History and Criticism
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76738
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
How does contemporary art engage the contemporary, exactly? Artist Hito Steyerl actively engages this question in her recent works. One might notice upon visiting a Hito Steyerl exhibition that her video works often include recordings of lectures she has given to live audiences in art spaces. Because Steyerl is engaged in this pedagogical practice as an artist, can it be considered contemporary art? Steyerl’s written, lectured, and visual works engage the contemporary moment prodigiously, and cannot be eschewed in an analysis of the perpetually evolving nature of contemporary art. With the use of critical, theoretical and formal analytical tools, this study seeks to examine Steyerl’s most recent pedagogical work, titled: “Duty-Free Art†— and how it functions in the greater schema of the contemporary. | 31 pages
Recommended Citation
Sigismondi, Rachel Carina, "Hito Steyerl's "Duty-Free Art" as Politics and Pedagogy" (2016). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2619.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2619