What is Contemporary? A Conversation with Hito Steyerl

On Sunday, February 21, 2016, Hito Steyerl joined MOCA Assistant Curator Lanka Tattersall in conversation on the occasion of her first-ever Los Angeles exhibition, Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun. The two discussed Steyerl’s process, problems of representation, protest movements, and the nature of time.
Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun runs at MOCA Grand Avenue February 21, 2016-September 8, 2016.

[@weirdlittlekid]

when she said "the film is really a mess," I was so relieved! It is a mess!
Obviously, the incoherence plays into the film's themes, and I enjoyed the film regardless of it's messiness. But that kind of unpretentious admission of failure is what makes Hito Steyerl such an interesting artist. The faults become features.

[@zezima5739]

God, Steyerl is a lovely woman. Her work inspires much of my recent videos. I am highly jealous she got to work with TSC too!

[@philiphammar]

She seems so humble!

[@miccimiccimicci]

I KNEW that "How Not to be Seen" was taken from Monty Python!

[@deskryptic]

This is awesome. Disjointed time. The value of invisibility. And the manipulation of visibility. Machines of light (Haraway). Meat space or is it meat space? Society as 5 sided chess board. No one know the rules.

[@AudioPervert1]

However, millions of people, a vast majority that, go with rules, wake up, work, eat, shit, sleep (Repeat)

[@AudioPervert1]

Hito Steyerl Amazing Discourse. Especially how she trashes the museums and the sick institutions behind them. Also her take on emerging VR and digital transformation slams at the bogus faith in technology - while facing mass extinction.

[@deskryptic]

OH... and superheroes!

[@placebo_yue]

You know what's not contemporary? single-channel video

[@nownezz]

all those terrible american accents

[@xox6311]

hahahaha