Publishing was central to Harun Farocki’s film practice. In this lecture, art historian, writer, and curator Tom Holert will reflect on the importance of writing and editing to Farocki's filmmaking. The evening will include a display of Filmkritik (the magazine Farocki co-edited between 1974–1983), the Harun Farocki Institut pamphlet series, and a screening of Filmbooks(1986), Farocki’s essay film on books about movies. The event will also mark the launch of About Narration, a new publication by Rab-Rab Press in collaboration with the Harun Farocki Institut.
Tom Holert works as an interdependent researcher in the fields of art history and cultural studies. He has taught at art schools and universities in Stuttgart, Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin and elsewhere. In 2015, he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut in Berlin. He has curated several thematic exhibitions (on educational architecture, interwar avant-garde art and theory, the genealogies of glamour and more) and publishes on subjects ranging from contemporary art to epistemic politics. His ca. 1972. Gewalt - Umwelt - Identität - Methode (2024) was awarded the prize of the Leipzig book fair. Currently, he is preparing an introduction to "art and politics".
