Hito Steyerl - A case study of an up and coming Stakeholder in the Art Market. Hito Steyerl (b1966) Munich, is a filmmaker, philosopher, theorist and writer. Steyerl studied film at Tokyo’s Academy of Visual Arts and at the University of Television and Film in Munich. She also holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She is based in Berlin where she has been Professor for Experimental film and video, University of Arts Berlin since 2011. Some of her other lecturing positions have included Convenor of MA´s in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths College London and guest lecturer at KUVA Helsinki, School for Conceptual art; Royal Academy of Copenhagen. Steyerl’s work has been exhibited at Documenta, Manifesta, the Taipei Biennale, and the Shanghai Biennale, among other European and American institutions.
Hito Steyerl has been rapidly ascending the Power 100 Art Review list since her entry onto the list at number 69 in 2013. She has recently claimed the number one position on the Power 100 list for 2017, rallying from number 7 in 2016. Her position as …show more content…
Many issues were revealed within this film, feminism, militarization and the circulation of an image and how the purpose of this image can change meaning as it circulates. Her childhood friend Andrea Wolf was an activist who went underground and was working in the free women's army for the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) in Turkey when it was suspected that she was captured, tortured, killed and buried in a mass unmarked grave. Steyerl had managed to get a bad quality video from a Turkish television station of Andrea in Turkey talking about her training in the PKK, this features in the film. Andrea's image and her adopted Kurdish name Sehit Ronahi was used on protest posters and she became a martyr to the Kurdish cause and a symbol of the Kurdish struggle for freedom. (Figure
Hito Steyerl has been rapidly ascending the Power 100 Art Review list since her entry onto the list at number 69 in 2013. She has recently claimed the number one position on the Power 100 list for 2017, rallying from number 7 in 2016. Her position as …show more content…
Many issues were revealed within this film, feminism, militarization and the circulation of an image and how the purpose of this image can change meaning as it circulates. Her childhood friend Andrea Wolf was an activist who went underground and was working in the free women's army for the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) in Turkey when it was suspected that she was captured, tortured, killed and buried in a mass unmarked grave. Steyerl had managed to get a bad quality video from a Turkish television station of Andrea in Turkey talking about her training in the PKK, this features in the film. Andrea's image and her adopted Kurdish name Sehit Ronahi was used on protest posters and she became a martyr to the Kurdish cause and a symbol of the Kurdish struggle for freedom. (Figure