Publishing as Scaffolding Talks # 4: “Tom Holert on Harun Farocki as Publisher,” Sep. 29, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki

Publishing as Scaffolding Talks # 4
Tom Holert on Harun Farocki as Publisher
Monday, September 29, 6 p.m.
Museum of Impossible Forms
Aallonhalkoja 9 L1, Helsinki

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 1974–1984), 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 recent book by Rab-Rab Press published in collaboration with the Harun Farocki Institut.

Tom Holert 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.

This is the fourth Publishing as Scaffolding talk organised by Rab-Rab Press.
The talks are supported by the Kone Foundation.

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“Scaffolding is made of cheaper materials, is put up only temporarily, and is dismantled or, if made of wood, scrapped for firewood once the shell of the structure is complete.
Scaffolding around a building also facilitates communication between the builders, enabling them to share the work and see the results of their collective labour.”