Hito Steyerl: Duty Free Art – Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

Publication Year: 2019
Pages: 256 pages
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN 13: 9781786632449
Dimensions:  20 × 12,7 cm
Language: English

In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age. What can we do when arms manufacturers sponsor museums, and some of the world's most valuable artworks are used as a fictional currency in a global futures market that has nothing to do with the work itself? Can we distinguish between creativity and the digital white noise that bombards our everyday lives? Exploring artefacts as diverse as video games, Wikileaks files, the proliferation of spam, and political actions, she exposes the paradoxes within globalization, political economies, visual culture, and the status of art production.