TAKING MEASURES, 2023

Die Beiträge dieses englischsprachigen Sammelbandes, der aus einer Reihe von Dialogen zwischen Forscher*innen und Künstler*innen im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Form an der Universität Zürich hervorging, erkunden diese Möglichkeiten. An welchen Praktiken der Vermessung, der Produktion von Wissen und von Beweisen im Dienst der Forschung sind Film und Video beteiligt? Auf welche Weise kann künstlerische Praxis solche Verstrickungen nicht nur sichtbar machen, sondern auch hinterfragen und erproben? Wie können Technologien des Messens in der Kunst politisch genutzt und für den öffentlichen Sektor nutzbar gemacht werden? Solchen Fragen und ihren Implikationen wird hier in erhellenden Essays nachgegangen.

Fabienne Liptay ist Professorin für Film studies an der Universität Zürich, wo sie das Research Projekt Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format leitet.

Carla Gabrí und Laura Walde waren Mitglieder des Research Projekts Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format als PhD Studentinnen beim Department of Film Studies, Universität Zürich.

Herausgegeben von Fabienne Liptay, Carla Gabrí, Laura Walde

1. Ausgabe, 2023, Text in Englisch

Hardback, 320 Seiten, 144 Farb- und 31 s/w Illustrationen, 17 x 23 cm

Veröffentlicht von Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, der Universität Zürich, Seminar für Filmwissenschaft, und Scheidegger & Spiess.

ISBN 978-3-85881-888-1

TAKING MEASURES

The book’s title—Taking Measures—has a double meaning: as a reference to the practices of measurement and to the political potential of power and resistance. Throughout their history to today, film and video have served as measuring devices for scientific, economic, political, and other purposes, and have been employed in a variety of fields beyond art. In acknowledging these uses also lies the opportunity for art to test its own effectiveness in public space and to uncover potential for resistance in artistic action.

This book—which has evolved from a series of dialogues between artists and researchers as part of the research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format at the University of Zurich—addresses issues of measures and formats in both content and design. In which practices of measurement, of the production of knowledge and evidence in the interest of useful research, are film and video involved? In what way can artistic practice not only make these involvements visible but challenge and test them? How can technologies of measurement in art be used politically and be made operative for the public sector? How can formats themselves, as the measures of art, be exhibited? How can they be put in relation to exhibition spaces and their economies of valorization, and how can this relationship be assessed? These questions are explored in illuminating and richly illustrated essays.

Fabienne Liptay is a professor of film studies at the University of Zurich, where she directed the research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format.

Carla Gabrí and Laura Walde were members of the research project Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format as PhD students at the Department of Film Studies, University of Zurich.

Edited by Fabienne Liptay in cojunction with Carla Gabrí and Laura Walde

1st edition, 2023, Text in English

Hardback, 320 pages, 144 color and 31 b/w illustrations, 17 x 23 cm

Published by Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, University of Zurich, Department of Film Studies and Scheidegger & Spiess

ISBN 978-3-85881-888-1