Reality and Documentation: An artist talk between Rosa Barba, Aernout Mik and Hito Steyerl

Throughout the last years the role of documentarisms in contemporary art was frequently and widely discussed. At its centre, there was always the question of the capacities of documentarisms to represent reality, the question in how far those documentarisms necessarily deviate from reality. In an artist talk between Rosa Barba, Aernout Mik and Hito Steyerl those
documentarisms will be discussed as a means of artistic praxis. All three artists base their work on documentary forms and researches but at the same time their ways of dealing with those means differ largely.

The talk is set up on the occasion of the opening of Aernout Mik's solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer. Until the 20th of December Rosa Barba's (*1972, Sicily, IT) film „Outwardly from Earth Center" will be on view at carlier | gebauer. Works of Hito Steyerl (*1966, Munich) will be displayed from the beginning of December in the exhibition „Dispersion" at the ICA London. Sternberg Press just published „The Green Room – Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art", which Steyerl edited with Maria Lind.

The talk will take place in the gallery, Markgrafenstr. 67, Berlin.
10.01.2009, 2-4 p.m.

carlier | gebauer
Markgrafenstraße 67, D-10969 Berlin
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