To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs, parallel pop-up histories and growing income inequalities. Let's add asymmetric warfare, real-estate speculation, tax evasion, money laundering and deregulated financial markets.

Hito Steyerl

Inequality is pervasive but invisible. It's hard to see. You need a sort of tool to make it visible.

Hito Steyerl

Gaming has a certain form in which it is organized. It has different levels and a sense of participation. Achievement is very important. You are constantly judged in relation to earning points. I think that's a way many people have learned to understand the world.

Hito Steyerl

I don't think the Internet or a big digital corporation will manage to capture all of human relations. It's too boring. After a while, people want to talk to one another, one on one.

Hito Steyerl

I'm all for health and safety regulations. But the thing I don't understand is this: to put up a video, there's a ton of health and safety regulations, which are really irrational, to the point of not being able to show an artwork. Then, when it comes to real people, where is health and safety?

Hito Steyerl