Cooper Gallery presents a major exhibition of German political filmmaker Harun Farocki
Labour in a Single Shot is a documentary video workshop initiated by Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki which has occurred in 15 cities worldwide since 2011. The workshop invites participants to make films of no more than 2 minutes in length that consider perceptions, practices and conditions of labour in our day-to-day life.
Tonight is a special screening of the Dundee
Labour in a Single Shot workshop, devised in close conversation with
Antje Ehmann by facilitated by artists and filmmakers
Pernille Spence and
Gair Dunlop. These films document labour and work shot in Dundee in the last month by students, filmmakers, artists and researchers, shown within the context of Cooper Gallery's exhibition
Harun Farocki: Consider Labour, a project supported by the Goethe-Institut.
The Goethe-Institut Glasgow is delighted to host not only this film screening but also a panel discussion this evening. In conversation about the workshop films and Harun Farocki's pioneering theories of film documentary will be Cooper Gallery's Director and principal curator,
Sophia Yadong Hao, artist and cocurator Antje Ehmann and artists Gair Dunlop and Pernille Spence, who led the Dundee
Labour in a Single Shot workshop.
Antje Ehmann is a curator and artist based in Berlin. She studied literature, philosophy and media studies from 1988 to 1995, and worked with the team of the Duisburg Film Week and the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen between 1992 and 1998. Ehmann married Harun Farocki in 2001. Ehmann curated numerous group and solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide, together with Carles Guerra, Okwui Enwezor, Marius Babias amongst others. Ehmann is also co-editor of multiple books, including the volume
Weimar Republic 1918-1933 in the German Research Foundation project History of Documentary Film in Germany (2000-2005). Ehmann has conducted workshops and exhibitions of the ongoing project
Labour in a Single Shot in collaboration with Harun Farocki from 2011 to 2014, and since 2017, with Eva Stotz and Luis Feduchi. She was also involved in the production of the project as part of the Venice Biennale in 2013 and 2015.
Sophia Yadong Hao is a curator, writer and editor whose practice appropriates a rhizomatic approach to situate the curatorial as a mode of critical inquiry directly engaging with culture and the political as an open question. Hao has curated contemporary art projects internationally, notably
NOTES on a return (2009), a re-contextualisation of performance art from 1980s Britain;
Studio Jamming: Artists’ Collaborations in Scotland (2014);
Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? (2016–2017) that evokes the ethos of feminism for an alternative politics in culture and society; and
CURRENT: Contemporary Art from Scotland (2015–2021), an exhibition programme toured to five major art venues in China that interrogates contemporaneity in a global capitalist context. Since 2021, Hao has initiated and realised
The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins Towards Creative Emancipation, a five-phase exhibition programme examining histories and future possibilities of creative pedagogy as a radical emancipatory praxis emphasising knowledge as a collective social experience. Hao’s publications include
Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? (2019),
Hubs and Fictions: On Current Art and Imported Remoteness (2016),
A CUT A SCRATCH A SCORE (2015) and
NOTES on a return (2010).
Hao is currently Director & Principal Curator of Cooper Gallery, DJCAD, University of Dundee and a Visiting Professor at the University of Sunderland.
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