1st Edition
Labour in a Single Shot Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project
410 Pages
by
Routledge
410 Pages
by
Routledge
This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history’s first film, Workers Leaving the... Read more
Acknowledgements, 1. Foreword: Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit/Labour in a Single Shot (Detlef Gericke), 2. Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives - Editors' Introduction (Roy Grundmann, Peter J. Schwartz, and Gregory H. Williams), 3. Labour in a Single Shot - Antje Ehmann's Workshop and Exhibition Journals , 2011-2014 (Antje Ehmann), History, 4. Attitudes Towards Work : On the Historical Metamorphoses of Psychotechnology (Peter J. Schwartz), 5. One Shot, Two Mediums, Three Centuries (Roy Grundmann), 6. The Body and the Senses: Harun Farocki on Work and Play (Thomas Elsaesser), Poetics, 7. Ten Propositions (Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann), 8. Videopoetics of Labour in a Single Shot (José Gatti), 9. Knowing When to Be Wary of Images (David Barker), Embodiment, 10. Punching In/Punching Out: Labour, Care, and Leisure at Work and at Play (Jeannie Simms), 11. Labour's Mediating Objects: Tools, Tactility, and Embodiment (Gregory H. Williams), Networks, 12. Database Labour: Supply Chains, Logistics, and Flow (Thomas Stubblefield), 13. Artwork and Artefact: The Networked Conditions of Labour in a Single Shot (Gloria Sutton), 14. Reading the Web Catalogue: Labour in a Single Shot as Online Environment (Vinicius Navarro), Bibliography Index of Labour in a Single Shot workshop videos, General index
Biography
Roy Grundmann is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Boston University. Peter J. Schwartz is Associate Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and Film at Boston University. Gregory H. Williams is Associate Professor of Contemporary and Modern Art History at Boston University.
