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Artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary. Contemporary engagements with documentary are multifaceted and complex, reaching across disciplines to explore the intersections of politics and aesthetics, representation and reality, truth and illusion. Discarding the old notions of “fly on the wall” immediacy or quasi-scientific aspirations to objectivity, critics now understand documentary not as the neutral picturing of reality but as a way of coming to terms with reality through images and narrative. This book collects writings by artists, filmmakers, art historians, poets, literary critics, anthropologists, theorists, and others, to investigate one of the most vital areas of cultural practice: documentary. Their investigations take many forms—essays, personal memoirs, interviews, poetry. Contemporary art turned away from the medium and toward the world, using photography and the moving image to take up global perspectives. Documentary filmmakers, meanwhile, began to work in the gallery context. The contributors consider the hybridization of art and film, and the “documentary turn” of contemporary art. They discuss digital technology and the “crisis of faith” caused by manipulation and generation of images, and the fading of the progressive social mandate that has historically characterized documentary. They consider invisible data and visible evidence; problems of archiving; and surveillance and biometric control, forms of documentation that call for “informatic opacity” as a means of evasion.

reality --- Film --- documentaries [document genre] --- truth --- Journalism --- Photography --- perception --- biometrics --- Documentary films. --- Documentary mass media and the arts. --- Documentary photography. --- Dokumentarfilm. --- Dokumentarfotografie. --- Médias documentaires et arts --- Documentaires --- Photographie documentaire --- Documentary films --- kunst --- kunstheorie --- documentaire --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- fotografie --- film --- digitale media --- nieuwe media --- 7.01 --- documentaries [documents] --- Dokumentarfilm --- Médias documentaires et arts --- kunsttheorie --- Reportage --- Artiste, rôle --- Cinéma --- Artiste et société

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In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ways their works connect viewers to the lived experiences of political and economic crisis. Demos investigates the cinematic approaches Steve McQueen, the Otolith Group, and Hito Steyerl employ to blur the real and imaginary in their films confronting geopolitical conflicts between North and South. He analyzes how Emily Jacir and Ahlam Shibli use blurs, lacuna, and blind spots in their photographs, performances, and conceptual strategies to directly address the dire circumstances of dislocated Palestinian people. He discusses the disparate interventions of Walid Raad in Lebanon, Ursula Biemann in North Africa, and Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri in the United States, and traces how their works offer images of conflict as much as a conflict of images. Throughout Demos shows the ways these artists creatively propose new possibilities for a politics of equality, social justice, and historical consciousness from within the aesthetic domain.

Arts and globalization --- Culture and globalization --- Art and society --- Documentary mass media and the arts --- Emigration and immigration in art --- Arts et mondialisation --- Culture et mondialisation --- Art et société --- Médias documentaires et arts --- Emigration et immigration dans l'art --- Art et politique --- Art militant --- Migration --- Film militant --- Photographie documentaire --- Photographie de reportage --- Sociologie de l'art --- Art --- Émigration et immigration --- Arts and globalization. --- Culture and globalization. --- Art and society. --- Documentary mass media and the arts. --- Emigration and immigration in art. --- Aspect social --- Dans l'art --- 77.03 --- 77.01 --- 791.43 --- film --- documentaire --- globalisering --- neoliberalisme --- McQueen Steve --- The Otolith Group --- Steyerl Hito --- Jacir Emily --- Shibli Ahlam --- Raad Walid --- Biemann Ursula --- Anastas Ayreen --- Gabri René --- politiek --- film en politiek --- fotografie --- fotografie en politiek --- migratie --- Documentaire fotografie --- Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- Filmkunst. Films. Cinema --- 791.43 Filmkunst. Films. Cinema --- 77.01 Fotografie--Semiotiek van de fotografie. Theorie --- 77.03 Documentaire fotografie --- Art et société --- Médias documentaires et arts --- Globalization and culture --- Globalization --- Arts and documentary mass media --- Arts --- Globalization and the arts --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Social aspects --- Culture et mondialisation. --- Dans l'art. --- Aspect social. --- Émigration et immigration