The Greenroom – Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art #1

Foreword
Tom Eccles

Introduction
Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art
Maria Lind and Hito Steyerl

“Documentary”: Authority and Ambiguities
Olivier Lugon

The Plays of the Witnesses
Jean-Pierre Rehm

Kicking the Cat
On Jeroen de Rijke/Willem de Rooij and the Question of Truth
Jörg Heiser

Documentary/Vérité
Bio-Politics, Human Rights, and the Figure of “Truth” in Contemporary Art
Okwui Enwezor

Life Full of Holes
T. J. Demos

The Documentary
Ontology of Forms in Transforming Countries
Vít Havránek

Negatives of Europe
Video Essays and Collective Pedagogies
Carles Guerra

Facts of Aesthetics and Fictions of Journalism
The Logic of the Media in the Age of Globalization
Stefan Jonsson

Research and Display
Transformations of the Documentary Practice in Recent Art
Jan Verwoert

Struggle, Event, Media
Maurizio Lazzarato

A Language of Practice
Hito Steyerl