HARUN FAROCKI - NOTHING VENTURED / IN COMPARISON

Harun Farocki (1944) analyses interferences of economics and politics within the social space. Since the early 1990s, he has been creating videos and installations in which he analyses the politics of the image and its spatial dimensions. Nothing Ventured reveals some of the pressures post-industrial production companies are facing nowadays while innovating. Farocki documents a business talk between a production company and a venture-capital firm. The single negotiation runs across two days and concludes unexpectedly. In Comparison shows us various brick production sites, enabling the viewer to consider them in comparison and reminding him of the fact that bricks are the fundamentals of society: they store knowledge on social structures.

Nothing Ventured
2004, Video, 50’, colour, German Spoken, English Subtitles
In Comparison
2009, 16mm, 61’, colour, sound, English intertitles