Hito Steyerl

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

— Hito Steyerl

Most of my work has always been online. But I try not to share it on commercial or corporate platforms, so you…

— 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…

— Hito Steyerl

I'm trying to find ways to transform parts of the art world into something more productive or more satisfying.

— Hito Steyerl

We need, let's say, municipal digital platforms, for teaching, for schooling, for education, but also, of course, for the arts.

— Hito Steyerl

If you want to make a difference with art, which is a motive I perceive as questionable, then the single most stupid…

— Hito Steyerl

I don't like being lectured - and I expect my viewers don't either.

— Hito Steyerl

I've always been interested in exploring technique in relation to technology.

— Hito Steyerl

As a dialectical materialist, I do not believe that social contradictions can be solved individually. On the other hand, if you give…

— Hito Steyerl

To brutally summarise a lot of scholarly texts, contemporary art is made possible by neoliberal capital, plus the Internet, biennials, art fairs,…

— Hito Steyerl

I like the combination of two different ideas that connect at an unexpected level.

— Hito Steyerl

I never got into being an artist. For me, it's always more research, storytelling, maybe technological experimental. It's more like a laboratory…

— Hito Steyerl

What institutions or galleries assume is that videos are available and that they can just stream them for free without taking into…

— Hito Steyerl

I am focusing more on finding ways to improve situations rather than creating evidence or doing any form of consciousness-raising.

— Hito Steyerl

Life is just embarrassing.

— Hito Steyerl

I don't want to make films that are so specialized that they're only accessible to people with prior knowledge or histories or…

— Hito Steyerl

A building is a very interesting frame. You always get a sort of sample of different people inside a building.

— Hito Steyerl

I have been teaching on 'Minecraft,' actually: It's a game for children, from 7 years old, and you get to build stuff…

— 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…

— Hito Steyerl

I think art's role is to investigate the way things are comprehended - the lenses through which people see. In conflict, these…

— Hito Steyerl

I felt I needed to start looking outside the gallery into the neighbourhood because otherwise I would just circulate in this museum…

— Hito Steyerl

In my films, accessibility is something I do on purpose.

— Hito Steyerl

I don't even have a high school degree. So I'm really used to being talked down to, and seen as someone who…

— Hito Steyerl

I can't describe what I do, I just potter along. But I do like the notion of an essay, something that can…

— Hito Steyerl

While I was at film school, or even earlier, maybe the late 1980s, the market for independent-film production collapsed, and existing funding…

— Hito Steyerl