Sculpture Projects Münster 2017
Hito Steyerl, HellYeahFuckWeDie (2016)
Civil war pervades the art of today, but few artists tackle the subject with such a contemporary eye as Hito Steyerl. Robots Today, an eight-minute video, explores the imagined life of 13th-century scientist Al-Jazari, while images of the destroyed Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in Turkey, where he worked, are overlain with the voiceover of a child asking the iPhone software Siri about robots. Meanwhile, the current state of robotics technology is presented in the three-channel video installation HellYeahFuckWeDie, where our mechanical friends are pushed and shoved to test their balance. Steyler’s futuristic works are placed amid LBS bank’s collection of pieces by Zero artists such as Heinz Mack, Günther Uecker and Otto Piene. The works are back on public display for Sculpture Projects Münster.
