Resistance Literature: Duty Free Art
Art as money laundering, digital violence, making images under these conditions.
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.
We will discuss the book, available for purchase or from your library.
Coming up in the series, all Sundays at 11:30am:
December 20: Less Is More by Jason Hickel
January 24, 2027: The Path of Most Resistance by Ivan Marovic