Harun Farocki. Against What? Against Whom?
19 November 2009 to 7 February 2010
This is the first UK exhibition of the two-screen and multi-screen works of revered German filmmaker Harun Farocki. The survey comprises of nine video installations, from his first two-screen project Interface in 1995 to Immersion, 2009, about the use of virtual reality in the treatment of traumatised US soldiers following the occupation of Iraq.
Since the sixties, Farocki (born in 1944, living in Berlin) has reinvented what can be described as the film essay. Beginning as an argument (often about the effects on the individual of capitalism, consumerism, technology or war) his films digress associatively and poetically, becoming open-ended rather than polemical. Farocki's films also reflect on the way in which our culture constructs photographic and moving images, and the uses to which these images are put.
In the mid-nineties, Farocki began making films for two, and occasionally more, screens. Above all, this enabled him to use images to comment on images. These films address the critical engagement of viewers at large in an art gallery.
The exhibition is curated by Alex Sainsbury. It is linked to 'Harun Farocki. 22 Films 1968–2009', a season of Farocki's single-screen films and events at Tate Modern, 13 November–6 December 2009, curated by Stuart Comer, Antje Ehmann and the Otolith Group.
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Harun Farocki
Comparison Via a Third, 2007
16 mm transferred to video, 2 screens
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, 2006
Video, 12 monitors
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, 2006
Video, 12 monitors
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
Transmission, 2007
Video, 1 screen
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
Eye/Machine III, 2003
Video, 2 screens
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts, 2000
Video, 2 screens
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Courtesy Generali Foundation, Vienna
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts, 2000
Video, 2 screens
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Courtesy Generali Foundation, Vienna
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki
Feasting or Flying, 2008
Video, 6 screens
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
Immersion, 2009
Video, 2 screens
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
On Construction of Griffith's Films, 2006
Video, 2 monitors
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
Interface, 1995
Video, 2 monitors
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith
Harun Farocki
Interface, 1995
Video, 2 monitors
Exhibition view, Raven Row
Photograph by Marcus J. Leith