Taking Measures - Usages of Formats in Film and Video Art migration and the frustration of failure

and the frustration of failure

Dries Van Noten and Yohji Yamamoto

as their ashes are scattered into its flow

speak for none of them

moreBetween 2017 and 2020

Taking Measures - Usages of Formats in Film and Video Art migration and the frustration of failureThe books titleTaking Measureshas 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