Hito Steyerl

“This catalog accompanies the exhibition The City of Broken Windows at Castello di Rivoli, Turin (November 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019) and features previously unpublished essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Marianna Vecellio, as well as by the feminist art historian Griselda Pollock.

It also contains two new texts by the artist, The City of Broken Windows (2018) and The City of Unbroken Windows (2018), published here for the first time, and her important essay In Defense of the Poor Image (2009).

Richly complemented by an extensive selection of images from the exhibition, the book includes an exhaustive scholarly chronology of the artist’s exhibitions, screenings, and lectures as well as an anthology of critical essays and interviews from 1998 to the present. Texts by Anna Altman, Manuela Ammer, Julieta Aranda, Marius Babias, Camila Bechelany, Jochen Becker, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Fred Camper, Lauren Cornell, T. J. Demos, Thomas Elsaesser, Harun Farocki, João Fernandes, Alwin Franke, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Marvin Jordan, Ann Kaneko, Heinz Kersten, Adam Kleinman, Brian Kuan Wood, Pablo Lafuente, Gil Leung, Maria Lind, Sven Lütticken, Anja Osswald, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, Bert Rebhandl, Isabella Reicher, David Riff, Daniel Rourke, Berta Sichel, Roberta Smith, Kerstin Stakemeier, Anton Vidokle, and Reinhard W. Wolf.” 

- SKIRA