Labour in a Single Shot
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- Speakers
- Antje Ehmann
- Language
- English
Labour in a Single Shot is a video production workshop, ideated by Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann, on the subject of labour: paid and unpaid, material and immaterial, rich in tradition or altogether new. Through a series of workshops in 15 cities around the world, the project sought to produce videos of 1 to 2 minutes in length, framed only in a single shot. The task as set led straight to basic questions of cinematographic form and raised essential questions about the filmmaking process itself. Almost every form of labour is repetitive. How can one find a beginning and an end when capturing it? Should the camera be still or moving? How to film the choreography of a workflow in one single shot in the best and most interesting way? Yet the workshop’s results showed that a single shot of 1 or 2 minutes could already create a narrative, suspense or surprise.
Antje Ehmann
- Artist, Curator, Moderator, Speaker
1968, Gelsenkirchen
Antje Ehmann is a curator, author, and artist
Curatorial projects (selection):
Harun Farocki: Who is in Charge? (with Heloisa Espada), Instituto
Moreira Salles, Rio de Janeiro, IMS Sao Paulo, Brazil 2018 | Harun
Farocki. What ought to be done. Life and work, (with Eunhee Kim),
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South-Korea,
2018 | Harun Farocki Retrospective (with Marius Babias), Berlin 2017 |
By other Means (with Carles Guerra), NBK, Berlin 2017 | Harun Farocki.
Empathy (with Carles Guerra), Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona 2016
| Harun Farocki. What is at Stake (with Carles Guerra), Institut Valencia
d’Art Modern | Harun Farocki. 4 films from 1967-1997, Angels Gallery
Barcelona 2014
Artistic projects (selection): How shall I name what I am missing? (with
Jan Ralske), Forum Expanded 2015 | Labour in a Single Shot. A Project
together with Harun Farocki, 2011 – 2014, with Eva Stotz, since 2017 |
War Tropes, (with Harun Farocki), Gorki Theater, Berlin 2011 | Feasting
or Flying (with Harun Farocki), Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana 2009
Publications (selection):
Harun Farocki, What Ought to be Done? Work and Life (with Eunhee
Kim), Seoul 2018 | Harun Farocki, 10, 20, 30, 40. Fragment einer
Autobiographie (with Marius Babias), Berlin 2017 | Harun Farocki,
Another Kind of Empathy (with Carles Guerra), Cologne 2016 | Serious
Games. War – Media – Art (with Ralf Beil), Ostfildern 2011
Last update: November 11th, 2019
