The first English-language scholarly collection of articles on the German artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger.
This book collects international scholarship on the Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger. These articles engage with the full range of her works, from the early Berlin feature films of the 1970s and 1980s to ethnographic documentaries and art exhibitions, photography shows, installations, and artist books. The collection brings together feminist film theorists with art historians and cultural theorists, each with a distinctive and detailed perspective on the queer fabulist genres of Ottinger, now in her eighties.
Edited by:
Prof. Angela McRobbie
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 244mm,
Width: 170mm,
Weight: 723g
ISBN: 9781789389364
ISBN 10: 1789389364
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 11 June 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction Angela McRobbie PART ONE: The Wide Expanse of Work 1. Ulrike Ottinger in the Mirror of her Movies Patricia White 2. Moving Artefacts: Objects and their Agencies Katharina Sykora 3. Wit and Humour, When Objects Look Back: Comical Constellations in Ottinger’s Work Gertrud Koch PART TWO: The Cities 4. Ulrike Ottinger and the Fashion Imagination Angela McRobbie 5. Recycling the Image of Berlin Esther Leslie 6. Prater (2007) Cinema’s Carousel Mandy Merck PART THREE: China, Mongolia, Japan, Korea 7. Rewriting the Ethnos through the Everyday: Ulrike Ottinger’s China. Die Künste – Der Alltag Cassandra Xin Guan 8: The Timeliness of Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989) Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon 9. Exil Shanghai as Audio-Visual Archive and Cross-Cultural Collage Tim Bergfelder 10: Hochzeiten Laurence A. Rickels PART FOUR: Shadows of the Past: Hoards and Collections 11: ‘Paris~Berlin et le monde entier’: Ulrike Ottinger’s Points of Departure Dominic Paterson 12: Shadow Plays: Charting Ulrike Ottinger’s Recent Navigations Nora M. Alter 13: Anachronism and Anti-Conquest: On Chamisso’s Shadow Thomas Love PART FIVE: Comment and Interviews 14: Ulrike Ottinger and the Strange Death of Metaphor Adrian Rifkin 15: ‘Most Young Women Are …..Bihonists’ :Interview with Yeran Kim Angela McRobbie 16: ‘We Were Pioneers for Fashion Spectacles That Didn’t Exist Before’: Interview with Claudia Skoda Julia Meyer-Brehm 17: ‘Back Then We Often Went to The Lipstick’: Interview with Heidi von Plato Julia Meyer-Brehm 18: ‘The Magic of Costume and Masquerade’: Interview with Gisela Storch-Pesalozza Thomas Love 19: ‘As a Viewer You Have a Lot of Freedom’: Interview with Wieland Speck Thomas Love
Angela McRobbie FBA (Fellow of the Bristish Academy) is a British cultural theorist, feminist and commentator whose work combines the study of popular culture, contemporary media practices and feminism through conceptions of a third-person reflexive gaze. Emeritus Professor Goldsmiths University of London PhD Loughborough University Hon Doctorate Glasgow University, Visiting Professor Loughborough University.
Reviews for Ulrike Ottinger: Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination
'With a ‘monstrous capacity to make images’ (Rifkin) and a career that’s so far spanned 60 years, filmmaker, artist, photographer, Ulrike Ottinger remains a huge figure. This monumental collection of essays and commentaries, offers an essential tribute to Ottinger’s importance. Accessible, enlightening and scholarly, the breadth and comprehensiveness of Angela McRobbie’s Ulrike Ottinger: Film, Art and the Ethnographic Imagination, will undoubtedly introduce her work to new audiences. This important book achieves two striking things: it demonstrates how contemporary Ottinger will always be and cements her legacy and reputation as one of the most significant and influential artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.' -- Stella Bruzzi FBA, Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Film Studies, UCL 'The wonderfully heterodox nature of Ulrike Ottinger’s work is captured here by leading scholars from a number of fields, lending this collection of essays a prismatic quality. Paying homage to the variety of form, from film and photography to sculpture and installations, and always with an eye to artifice, what comes into focus above all else is Ottinger’s unending romance with performance and provocation. The currents of thought travelling through these essays explore the ways in which the performative in Ottinger’s work meets the particularity of place, only to confound the idea that one is fluid and the other fixed; indeed, a documentary may turn out to be a fable, and often does. Much more than a guide to Ottinger’s prodigious output, although it serves that purpose too, this book provides a timely critical engagement with one of the most prolific and singular artists of our times.' -- Janet Harbord, Queen Mary, University of London
