The ICA is the first public institution to present a selected survey of new and recent work by Berlin-based artist and writer Hito Steyerl, recognising one of the most critically acclaimed artists working in the field of video today.

The exhibition will consist of five works. New work Liquidity Inc looks at a financial advisor called Jacob Wood who lost his job during the last financial crisis. How Not to Be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .Mov File is a 15 minute mock instructional film on the idea of becoming invisible in the digital world. Guards is a 20 minute film studying museum officers with a background as law enforcement officers or military personnel.

Two recorded lectures, Is the Museum a Battlefield and I Dreamed a Dream will also be screened. These works were filmed live lectures at the 13th Istanbul Biennial and Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin respectively.

Steyerl is a Berlin-based filmmaker and writer. Her work focuses on contemporary issues such as feminism, militarisation as well as the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and knowledge brought on by digital technologies. Steyerl currently teaches at the New Media Art at University of the Arts in Berlin. She studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Tokyo, the University of Television and Film in Munich, and obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Her work has been included in several exhibitions such as dOCUMENTA 12, Taipei Biennial 2010, and 7th Shanghai Biennial. She has published widely, including websites e-flux and eipcp, and has recently published The Wretched of the Screen (2012) with Sternberg Press.

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Related images

  • 1. 3. & 5. How Not To Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational .Mov File. Hito Steyerl, 2013, HD video file, single screen, 14min
  • 2. 4. & 6. Hito Steyerl, Still from Liquidity Inc., 2014, Courtesy the artist