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Critique in Practice: Renzo Martens' Episode III: Enjoy Poverty.

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Enjoy Poverty examine la valeur émotionnelle et économique de l'exportation la plus lucrative d'Afrique : la pauvreté filmée. À l'instar d'exportations africaines plus traditionnelles telles que l'or et le cacao, les fournisseurs de cette matière première n'en profitent pas, ou à peine. Dans ce contexte, l'artiste néerlandais Renzo Martens lance un programme émancipateur, au fin fond du Congo, qui vise à conscientiser les citoyens pauvres de leur capital principal : la pauvreté. Martens entreprend seul un périple épique de plusieurs années. Enjoy Poverty, qui conjugue le journalisme d'investigation, la satire et la conscience de soi à travers un regard profondément singulier, est ingénieusement provocateur, souvent ironique et désopilant, alors que le miroir qu'il nous tend est inévitablement attristant. Investigating the economic value of one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s most lucrative exports (namely, poverty), Renzo Martens’ provocative film Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008) remains a landmark intervention into debates about contemporary art’s relationship to exploitative economies. The contributors to this publication explore the film’s legacy and how it relates to the politics of representation, uses of the documentary form, art criticism, the deployment of humanitarian aid, the impact of extractive forms of globalized capital, and the neoliberal politics of decolonization. The unconventional representation of acute immiseration throughout Enjoy Poverty generated far-from-resolved disputes about how deprivation is portrayed in Western mainstream media and global cultural institutions. Using a range of approaches, this volume reconsiders that portrayal and how the film’s reception led Martens to found a long-term program, the Institute for Human Activities.


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Staging the archive : art and photography in the age of new media
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ISBN: 9781780233727 1780233728 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Reaktion Books

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"Staging the archive: art and photography in the age of new media is dedicated to art practices that mobilize the model of the archive, demonstrating the ways in which such archival artworks probe the possibilities of what art is and what it can do. Through a variety of media, methodologies and perspectives, the artists surveyed here also challenge the principles on which the notions of organization, evidence and documentation are built. The book shows how artists have, over recent decades, read the concept of the archive against the grain, questionning not only what the archive is and can be but what materials, images or ideas can be archived. Ernst van Alphen explores the work of artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Broodthaers, Christian Boltanski, Fiona Tan, and Sophie Calle, writers including Georges Perec and film-makers such as Alain Resnais and Péter Forgács. Staging the Archive reveals how modern and contemporary artists have used and contested the notion of the archive to establish new relationships to history, information, data.

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