Artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics,
anthropologists, theorists, and others, investigate one of the most
vital areas of cultural practice: documentary. Contemporary
engagements with documentary are multifaceted and complex, reaching
across disciplines to explore the intersections of politics and
aesthetics, representation and reality, truth and illusion.
Discarding the old notions of "fly on the wall" immediacy or
quasi-scientific aspirations to objectivity, critics now understand
documentary not as the neutral picturing of reality but as a way of
coming to terms with reality through images and narrative. This
book collects writings by artists, filmmakers, art historians,
poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, to
investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice:
documentary. Their investigations take many forms-essays, personal
memoirs, interviews, poetry. Contemporary art turned away from the
medium and toward the world, using photography and the moving image
to take up global perspectives. Documentary filmmakers, meanwhile,
began to work in the gallery context. The contributors consider the
hybridization of art and film, and the "documentary turn" of
contemporary art. They discuss digital technology and the "crisis
of faith" caused by manipulation and generation of images, and the
fading of the progressive social mandate that has historically
characterized documentary. They consider invisible data and visible
evidence; problems of archiving; and surveillance and biometric
control, forms of documentation that call for "informatic opacity"
as a means of evasion. Contributors Ariella Azoulay, Zach Blas,
Christa Blumlinger, Stella Bruzzi, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Kris
Fallon, Evgenia Giannouri, Ben Lerner, SylveIre Lotringer, Antonia
Majaca, Sohrab Mohebbi, Volker Pantenburg, Veireina Paravel,
Christopher Pinney, Ben Rivers, and Eyal Sivan Copublished with the
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
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