Prof. Schwartz Featured in BUCH Critical Conversation about “Labour in a Single Shot”
In their newly published book Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project, WLL faculty member Peter J. Schwartz (German & Comparative Literature), along with BU colleagues Roy Grundmann (COM) and Gregory H. Williams (HAA), offer a critical assessment of Harun Farocki and Antje Ehmann’s global video project conducted between 2011 and 2014, which resulted in 550 2-minute films reflecting on labor and work around the globe. Grundmann, Schwartz, and Williams recently responded to questions from BU Center for the Humanities staff about their interdisciplinary publication, just published by Amsterdam University Press (2022) with support from the BU Center for the Humanities.
The book is freely accessible via Open Access Publishing in European Networks. Schwartz, Grundmann, and Williams explain:
The underlying premise of all this is that art should serve and be accessible to the masses. Labour in a Single Shot was conceived as a public access project from the beginning. … We felt that our work should remain consistent with the ethos and political tradition within which Farocki and Ehmann conceived and executed their project, and that it would be difficult to justify placing a paywall or the purchase price of a printed volume between our book and the reader.
Read the full interview on the BUCH site.
