The expression is derived from ethnographic film productions of the 1960s and ensuing investigations. As artists, filmmakers, and theoreticians have developed new languages to talk about their traditions, heritage, and identities, they have in turn "shot back" at the crude, stereotypical, and fictitious imagery of their respective cultures presented by mainstream media and scholarship.
At the same time the expression "shooting back" marks the shift from passive forms of representation to new modes of self-representation. On an artistic level this has been addressed through the conscious investigation of overlooked, erased, and precarious histories. In order to approach such “elusive” realities, artists deploy strategies of reconstruction, archiving, and (performative) actualization and often access an immaterial heritage that is committed to forms of knowledge and culture that are already inscribed into history.' (http://www.tba21.org/program/exhibitions/10/page_2?category=exhibitions)
This publication is produced in conjunction with the titled exhibition. Essays by critics and scholars, together with images and explanatory remarks by participating artists are available.
Onsite
English
video art,  performance art,  photography,  mixed media,  group exhibition
2007
127
3950206426
1
catalogue
Except from An Interview with Hashem El Madani
Sean Synder - Charles ESCHE
Les travailleurs n'ont pas de patrie - Mira KERATOVA
The Beauty of Exactitude. Talk about Ethnographic film between Ahmad Alasti and Michael Oppitz - Michael OPPITZ
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