Episode 103 – Indefensible Poor Image and Prestige TV
We revisit Hito Steyerl’s “In Defense of Poor Image” to make a point about naiveté of the American left during the Obama administration. The web was a frontier, meaning conditions have always been ripe for dissemination of far right disinformation as well as highly polished neoliberalism. It’s a positive development that left popular discourse is able to identify properties like Hillbilly Elegy and Trial of the Chicago 7, as purposeful distortions of American injustice and poverty. How can our messaging compete with billion dollar media and political campaigns dedicated to convincing the masses that societal problems are their personal failings? If you like the podcast and want more, please consider supporting us: https://www.patreon.com/artandlabor. Follow us on twitter and instagram. You can contact Art & Labor at artandlaborpodcast@gmail.com. Please reach out to join the discord for Lucia’s school “Constructing the Real” Please write us a review on Apple podcasts or whatever other platforms!!
Previous episode on Hito with links to both essays mentioned: http://www.artandlaborpodcast.com/podcast/episode-6-a-drunken-intro-to-hito-steyerl/
Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik (1992) very illuminating parallels on propaganda: https://youtu.be/SwoWS1vh3JQ
Obama the “Funny or Die” president: https://twitter.com/jackallisonLOL/status/1329797192203177988
Matt Christman on Respectable Television: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/05/how-tv-became-respectable-without-getting-better
Osita Nuevo on Obama Memoirs: https://newrepublic.com/article/160285/obama-promised-land-trump-biden
International Amazon worker action: https://www.vice.com/en/article/epdvzp/amazon-workers-to-stage-coordinated-black-friday-protests-in-12-countries
Episode 39 – Paris Burns, Hito Returns
Hop in our hot air balloon we’re touring the world baby! This episode we’re joined by curator and PhD student Emilie M. Reed (@netgal_emi) to discuss the new Hito Steyerl show at Serpentine S***ler Gallery in London. We also do a little recap of Žižek vs Peterson spectacle. Finally, we head to Paris to discuss the absurd responses to the recent hellfire at Notre Dame by the Catholic church, French government, and gigantic multinational corporations. If you like the podcast and want more, please consider supporting us: https://www.patreon.com/artandlabor or https://d.rip/artandlabor.
this shit sucks: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/skbaer/notre-dame-fire-rebuild-pinault-donation-french-billionaire
em’s dispatch: https://emreed.net/speculationzone.html
turns out it was suppose to be bad: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/apr/10/hito-steyerl-review-serpentine-sackler-gallery-london
Episode 25 – International Solidarity
TWENTY-KNIFE-TEEN IS HERE AND WE’RE IN A SOMBER MOOD! This episode we try to wrap our heads around a couple different international protest movements including the YPG International Academy, Hito Steyerl’s 2004 film “November”, and the Gilets Jaunes. We discuss The United States, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the proliferation of neoliberal imperialism. Support us and get our premium snackcast here: https://d.rip/artandlabor
The New International EP01: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfRXooOcFoo
Hito Steyerl on November: http://transit.berkeley.edu/2005/steyerl/
The film itself: https://vimeo.com/88484604
Hito and Rojava Film Commune: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/86/160968/the-color-of-women-an-interview-with-ypj-commanders-dilovan-kobani-nirvana-ruken-and-zerin/
Duty-Free Art: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/63/60894/duty-free-art/
Episode 11 – HOW NOT TO BE SEEN
A Fucking Didactic Educational AUDIO File! We basically spin a weird collage about surveillance and privacy (a lost cause). A lot of time traveling this episode. We go back in time 5-7 years when folks were rushing Youtube with How To videos like it was the dang gold rush. We receive a prescient transmission from Jack Smith about the commodification of counterculture and the hyper capitalization art fairs were about to cause. We also heed lessons from David Wojnarowicz. Thank you queer history. Folks on the margins are often destroyed by the state, listen to them, and give them space.
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How Not to Be Seen:
https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651
How to Basic:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR4s1DE9J4DHzZYXMltSMAg
How to Internet:
https://youtu.be/3r_6aYXHxuQ
How to Disappear in America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_gIRdS4XPk
Shows closing next month:
http://artistsspace.org/exhibitions/jack-smith
https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/DavidWojnarowicz
Books:
Surveillance Cinema by Catherine Zimmer:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15r3z88
& Strategic Reality Dictionary: Deep Infopolitics and Cultural Intelligence
Book by Konrad Becker
Episode 10 – Post Cold War Art and the CIA
The department of defense, the CIA, and the FBI have all had a hand in influencing art, culture, and academia. We discuss the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Marvel movies, Rockefeller, modernism, futurist fascism, and Mexican muralism. Are you bummed about MFAs and institutional partnerships with banks? Us too buddy. If you like us please consider donating for bonus writing, memes, and art: https://d.rip/art-and-labor
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Politics of Art: Contemporary Art and the Transition to Post-Democracy https://www.e-flux.com/journal/21/67696/politics-of-art-contemporary-art-and-the-transition-to-post-democracy/
How Iowa Flattened Literature (With CIA help, writers were enlisted to battle both Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing lingers) https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Iowa-Flattened-Literature/144531
The CIA’s abstract art collection: https://hyperallergic.com/294142/a-visit-to-the-the-cias-secret-abstract-art-collection/
Movies funded by the state: https://twitter.com/BootsRiley/status/1025779683541934080
^backed up by this Freedom of Information Act: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hollywood-cia-washington-dc-films-fbi-24-intervening-close-relationship-a7918191.html
Marvel’s “cancelled” gun manufacturer sponsor: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x835p/northrop-grumman-paid-marvel-to-turn-the-military-contractor-into-a-superhero-avengers
The Pentagon and Hollywood: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/421064-pentagon-hollywood-propaganda-dod/
Episode 9 – The YouTube Shooter (The Internet vs Dasein)
Content warning right at the top, this episode we discuss guns, violence, and suicide. We read through the Hito Steyerl essays “Is the Internet Dead?” and “The Terror of Total Dasein: Economies of Presence in the Art Field” We get into the complicated life and death of Nasim Najafi Aghdam, algorithms, junktime, access, and therapy. If you like us please consider donating for bonus writing, memes, and art: https://d.rip/art-and-labor
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The Legacy of Nasim Najafi Aghdam: https://medium.com/@jonathansykes/the-legacy-of-nasim-aghdam-7b8a29db1926
Is the Internet Dead?: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/49/60004/too-much-world-is-the-internet-dead/
The Terror of Total Dasein: http://dismagazine.com/discussion/78352/the-terror-of-total-dasein-hito-steyerl/
Episode 7 – Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War
Art is being used to fund and perpetuate war. The stateless wealthy use the art market as a tool to extend and maintain the class divide. Learn all about it in this mostly serious and depressing episode. My cat lightens the mood at one point. I wonder if the next 20 episodes of the show will just be us discussing a different Hito Steyerl essay every week.
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A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/70/60543/a-tank-on-a-pedestal-museums-in-an-age-of-planetary-civil-war/
The Gray Market: https://news.artnet.com/market/art-agency-partners-gallery-advisory-1318400
Episode 6 – A Drunken Intro to Hito Steyerl
HITO STEYERL DANK MEME STASH! Hey ya’ll, we’ve got some FEELINGS this episode. Half this episode is venting about some strange/shitty art world jobs we’ve had. We also mention decolonization practice, Walter Benjamin, cultural Marxism, and Imperfect Cinema as a foundation for Steyerl’s In Defense of Poor Image. Accessibility is the key word of this ep. It’s extremely hot in New York City! It’s punishingly hard to focus. We drank a couple cold ones and left the AC on so this is a long ep with a little rumbling sound in the background. I’m not going to apologize, we needed that AC to pod.
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In Defense of Poor Image https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/
I Dreamed a Dream: Politics in the Age of Mass Art Production http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/dreamed-dream-politics-age-mass-art-production/
How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013 https://www.artforum.com/video/hito-steyerl-how-not-to-be-seen-a-fucking-didactic-educational-mov-file-2013-51651
For an imperfect cinema by Julio García Espinosa https://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC20folder/ImperfectCinema.html
Follow them: http://www.decolonizethisplace.org/
Ron Paul is a shithead https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ron-paul-blames-racist-tweet-on-staffer_us_5b3ada27e4b07b827cba060b
Fuck this stork https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/29/world/europe/ap-eu-poland-spendthrift-stork.html
I found this randomly while looking for images, I wanna read it: http://reallifemag.com/poor-meme-rich-meme/
