Education

Stefanie Baumann is currently a contracted researcher at CineLab/IFILNOVA (New University of Lisbon), where she coordinates the working group “Thinking Documentary Film.”. She obtained her PhD in philosophy in 2013, with a doctoral thesis on Walid Raad’s artistic project The Atlas Group. She taught philosophy, aesthetics and contemporary art theory at University Paris VIII (Paris, 2007-2010), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, 2013), ALBA – the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts/ University of Balamand (Beirut, 2012-2015) and the Maumaus Study Program (Lisbon, since 2016). She also worked with the artist Esther Shalev-Gerz as personal assistant from 2005 to 2010, and collaborated with video artists Marie Voignier and Mounira Al Solh.

Publications

How to Mediate Reality: Thinking Documentary Film with Horkheimer and Adorno                                 2021


In “How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School”, ed. Jeremiah Morelock


Brill (Studies in Critical Social Sciences)


https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004444744_017


Images of the Real. Introductory Notes 1                                                                                          2021


In Cinema – Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 12: Images of the Real. Philosophy and Documentary Film, ed. Susana Nascimento Duarte and Stefanie Baumann


https://doi.org/10.34619/eoua-x5xy


Notes dispersées à partir de la table ronde « Retour en Amazonie : Werner Herzog » (French/Portuguese)   2020


(with Jeremy Hamers, Gregory Corman, Susana Mouzinho and Eric Lecerf)


In Fordlandia: Suspended Spaces 5, Les Presses du Réel 


 


Between the culture industry and art: Adorno’s approach to film                                                          2020


In Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism, ed. Robin Truth Goodman, 


Bloomsbury Academic 


 


On Experience and Illumination: Werner Herzog’s Dialectical Relation with Society                                2020


In The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, ed. M. Blake Wilson and Christopher Turner, 


Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield 


 


Archives piégées. Notes sur la posture critique dans deux dossiers des archives de l’Atlas Group               2019


In Archiver au Moyen Orient. Fabriques documentaires contemporaines, ed. Christine Jungen and 


Jihane Sfeir, 


Éditions Karthala


 


Heterodox Mediations. Notes on Walid Raad’s The Atlas Group                                                           2019


In Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Volume 11, 2019, Issue 1


https://doi.org/10.1080/20004214.2019.1633192


 


Reverse Shot: Approaching Mozambican History, conversation with Catarina Simão (English/German)       2018


In The Fevered Spectres of Art, ed. Nataša Ilić, 


Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst & Sternberg Press


 


Dialectiques du film selon Adorno                                                                                                   2018


In Où en sommes-nous avec la théorie esthétique d’Adorno?, ed. Florent Perrier et Christophe David, 


Éditions Pontcerq


 


Archives mozambicaines: entretien avec Catarina Simão                                                                     2018


in Suspended Spaces #4: Le partage des oublis, 


Éditions Sistema Solar (French/Portuguese)


 


The Philosophy of Documentary Film. Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth (book review)                                    2018 


in Cinema. Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 9


https://research.unl.pt/ws/portalfiles/portal/5917267/9_Baumann.pdf


 


Hanan al Cinemaan interview with Laura U. Marks (with Susana Nascimento Duarte),                           2018


In Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 9


http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/906805/27864677/1521829953830/9_Marks_Baumann_Duarte.pdf


 


Faits Divers. Notes on a recurrent figure in contemporary Lebanese art                                                  2018


published by Sarandar Collection; available online:


http://www.saradarcollection.com/ContentFiles/1184PDFLink.pdf


 


Prisms of Realism. On the Question of Emancipation and Authority in Art                                              2017


(Lukács, Brecht, Adorno, Kluge)


In Revista Constellazioni n.4 “Il realism nelle arti (e altrove)”, éd. Pietro Montani



Ralentir, déployer, ouvrir les images. Notes sur Natureza Morta. Visages d’une dictature                          2017


de Susana de Sousa Dias


In Revue Proteus n° 12


http://www.revue-proteus.com/abstracts/12-7.html


 


Projeter le réel. Notes sur l’attitude critique inhérente à la notion de réalisme,                                        2017


à partir du film Chung Kuo, Cina, de Michelangelo Antonioni,


In Le Philosophoire n° 47, « L’Esprit critique », Paris, Vrin 


https://www.cairn.info/revue-le-philosophoire-2017-1-page-135.htm

Ian Aitken, Lukácsian film theory and cinema. A study of Georg Lukács’ writings on film, 1913-71               2017 (book review), 


In Cinema. Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 8 available online: 


http://cjpmi.ifilnova.pt/8-contents


 


Urban Legends. On the Complicity between Photography and City in the Sweet Talk file of Walid Raad’s     2015


Atlas Group Archives (English, Portuguese)


In Espaços Compartilhados da Imagem: Caderno de Reflexões Críticas sobre a Fotografia/ Shared Spaces of 


The Image: Notebook of Critical Reflections on Photography, ed. Bruno Vilela and Guilherme Cunha 


Edição Circuito


 


Légendes urbaines. De la complicité entre photographie et ville dans le dossier Sweet Talk des                  2014


des archives de l’Atlas Group de Walid Raad


In Suspended Spaces #3, Éditions de l’ENSBA


 


Critical/Archives (participation in the round table discussion about critical archives)                                2014


in : Artmargins 3.3, MITPress Journals


 


Approaching Trust and the Unfolding Dialogue                                                                                 2013


In: Esther Shalev-Gerz. The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding Dialogues,


Art and Theory Publishing/University of Gothenburg, Valand Academy


 


Des peuples qui manquent. Suite libanaise,                                                                                       2012


In: Suspended Spaces #2, Black Jack Editions


 


Archiver ailleurs, archiver autrement ? La Fondation Arabe pour l’Image,                                             2012


In : Pratiques d’archives. Fabriques, modelages, manipulations, Ateliers d’anthropologie, n° 36/2012, 


https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/9013


                                               


Mirroirs d’ailleurs. Notes sur le dossier Bachar des archives de l’Atlas Group.                                        2011


In : Théories de la diversité culturelle et de la mondialisation, Communautés et sociétés


Annales de sociologie et d’anthropologie, Université Saint-Joseph, Beyrouth, Vol. 21-22 


 


Missing lebanese Wars : notes sur un dossier de l’Atlas Group Archive                                                  2010


In : Mémoires de guerres au Liban (1975-1990), ed. Franck Mermier and Christophe Varin, 


Actes Sud-Sindbad/ Ifpo


                                               


Archiver ce qui aurait pu avoir lieu : Walid Raad et les archives de l´Atlas Group                                   2009


In : Conserveries Mémorielles n° 6/Bulletin de l´IHTP n° 89: La Part de la Fiction dans les images 


documentaires, available online: 


http://cm.revues.org/381


 


Entering the Place of Art                                                                                                               2008


In : Esther Shalev-Gerz, Konstens plats/The Place of Art: Art Monitor/University of Gothenburg


 


 

Blog Posts

    Projects

    Mediating Reality. Philosophy and Documentary Film (Principal Investigator)                       01/2022-07/2023


    IFILNOVA/Cinelab, New University of Lisbon


    Funded by FCT 


     

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