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Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons presents Where Do We Migrate To?

The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design will present Where Do We Migrate To? (February 3–April 15, 2012), an exhibition exploring the diverging ways in which artists have addressed forms of migration, experiences of displacement, and questions of belonging. A public opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 2 from at 6:00 p.m. in the galleries. Where Do We Migrate To? features the work of nineteen internationally recognized artists and collectives, including Acconci Studio, Svetlana Boym, Blane De St.

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Papers

Harun Farocki Deep Play, 2007

Harun Farocki: Raising the Stakes of the Game

Brianne Cohen

German filmmaker Harun Farocki has tackled issues of deregulation both explicitly and metaphorically. In the past this has included, for instance, an overt, leftist critique of the financial market deregulation of the 1980s and its concomitant “casino capitalism.” More recently, Farocki has experimented with a type of Brechtian deregulation in video installation, relinquishing his career-long role as a Benjaminian “author as producer” in order to imbue collective viewers with more responsibility in the production of meaning. This essay interrogates Farocki’s globalized update on the “epic theater” in his piece Deep Play (2007), which works to transform spectators into ethnographic observer-participants.