Image courtesy of the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York) and Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin)
Hito Steyerl
Liquidity Inc., 2014
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Serpentine North Gallery4 May 2019Free
Curator Amira Gad leads a tour of the Hito Steyerl exhibition. BSL interpretation is available on request for all our Saturday Talks.
Hito Steyerl’s new project for the Serpentine Galleries considers power and inequality in society, mapping unequal wealth distribution in the communities surrounding the Serpentine, which has been recorded as one of the most socially uneven areas in Europe. Visitors to the exhibition will see an augmented reality app designed to expand our social vision of some local communities to reveal what Steyerl calls Actual Reality, a series of guided neighbourhood ‘power walks’ and a new video installation created using artificial intelligence trained to predict the future.
Beginning with the premise that ‘’’power’’ is the necessary condition for any digital technology’, Steyerl considers the multiple meanings of the word, including electrical currents, the ecological powers of plants or natural elements and the complex networks of authority that shape our environments.
Hito Steyerl
Adorno's Grey, 2012
Single channel HD video projection, four angled screens, wall plot, photographs 14 minutes, 20 seconds
Installation view from the Van Abbemuseum, 2014
Image courtesy of the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York) and Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin)
Hito Steyerl
In Free Fall, 2010
Video HDV, 32', single channel, sound, color 33 minutes, 43 seconds
Image CC 4.0 Hito Steyerl
Image courtesy of the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York) and Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin)
Hito Steyerl
How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013 HD video, single screen in architectural environment 15 minutes, 52 seconds
Image CC 4.0 Hito Steyerl
Image courtesy of the Artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
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