Sisters! Making Films, Doing Politics

Sisters! Making Films, Doing PoliticsBridging the gulf between aesthetics and politics, artist and film maker Petra Bauer reflects on her own experience of making political films and launches a theoretical argument that uncovers the aesthetic mechanisms underlying contemporary strategies for collective and feminist film making. An exploration in artistic research, the book draws on an extensive historical archive of radical film making and film theory, with particular focus on the

The solution for including two languages in the collection – each given its own half of the book

And this brings us to the main contradiction

and interdisciplinary exchanges play in this

By inquiring into the political

the “eggy” odor of space

twenty years on

'Open Archief – Artistic Reuse of Archives' holds 12 essays

This tension is relevant for artists

researching

The work was created on the occasion of the exhibition "The Palace of Concrete Poetry" at the Writers' House of Georgia in Tbilisi (September 9 - October 9

a genre in cultural history that focuses on personal stories and apparently minor events

Elki Boerdam