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.

Blog Posts

    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


     


     

    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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