A panel discussion focusing on the notion of the ‘biography of the object’ with Hito Steyerl, Peter Osborne and Eyal Weizman. The discussion was chaired by Melissa Gronlund.
- images should break away from the subject
- images should have lives of their own through velocity and movement
- intervals, gaps, ruptures and voids
- look at the disjunction between commodity as a subject of social form an not as an object
- look at production through destruction
- critique is enforcing the object
- think about the cinematography of the exhibition
- look at the relationship between the temporality of the image as an object and how it can make narratives temporary
- objects can only be thought of through a notion of a subject
- violence of history
- change the notion of history
- the notion of workers as a collective does not exist it is a political fantasy, highlight this rupture
