Critique in practice : Renzo Martens' Episode III (Enjoy poverty) / editor: Anthony Downey ; associate editor: Els Roelandt.

Includes bibliographical references.

Investigating the economic value of one of the Democratic Republic of the Congo?s most lucrative exports (namely, poverty), Renzo Martens? provocative film 'Episode III: Enjoy Poverty' (2008) remains a landmark intervention into debates about contemporary art?s relationship to exploitative economies. The contributors to this publication explore the film?s legacy and how it relates to the politics of representation, uses of the documentary form, art criticism, the deployment of humanitarian aid, the impact of extractive forms of globalized capital, and the neoliberal politics of decolonization. The unconventional representation of acute immiseration throughout 'Enjoy Poverty' generated far-from-resolved disputes about how deprivation is portrayed in Western mainstream media and global cultural institutions. Using a range of approaches, this volume reconsiders that portrayal and how the film?s reception led Martens to found a long-term program, the Institute for Human Activities.

Preface -- Charles Esche, Without Illusions -- Introduction -- Anthony Downey, An Immodest Proposal : Renzo Martens' Episode III : Enjoy Poverty and the Practice of Critique -- Receptions -- Laurens Otto, Notes on Texts -- Els Roelandt, Renzo Martens' Episode III : Analysis of a Film Process in Three Conversations (2008) -- Dan Fox, Renzo Martens (2009); Intervention (2016) -- Paul O'Kane, Renzo Martens, Episode III (2009); The Latest Laocoon : Reflections on Renzo Martens' Episode III (2016) -- Frank Vande Veire, Une bonne nouvelle : Notes on Episode III (2008) -- Ana Teixeira Pinto, Love Is Colder Than Death (2010); Intervention (2016) -- Niels Van Tomme, Enjoy Poverty : Disclosing the Political Impasse of Contemporary Art (2010) -- Ruben De Roo, Immorality as Ethics : Renzo Martens' Enjoy Poverty (2011) -- Artur �Zmijewski, Artists Come to Create Beauty and Kindness (2012) -- Nato Thompson, Ethical Considerations in Public Art (2013) -- T.J. Demos, The Haunting : Renzo Martens' Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2013) -- Matthias De Groof, Episode III : Enjoy Poverty from a Postcolonial Perspective (2015) -- JJ Charlesworth, Renzo Martens (2015) -- Vivian Ziherl, Renzo Martens and the Institute for Human Activities' "A New Settlement" (2015) -- Nikolaus Perneczky, Intervention (2019) -- Emilia Terracciano, On Cynicism (2019) -- Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani, Looking Beyond the Distance of the Visible Frame (2019) -- Ren�e Ngongo, From Episode III : Enjoy Poverty to the Post-Plantation (2019) -- Critical Frameworks -- Laurens Otto, Notes on Texts -- k�ar�i'k�ach�a seid'ou and Jelle Bouwhuis, Renzo Martens : Tretyakov in the Congo? -- Eva Barois De Caevel, A Natural Disaster -- Kolja Reichert, An Image Looking at Its Own Back : Episode III as a Self-Portrait of the Societal Space of the Viewer -- Anthony Downey, Is There a Right Way to Do Wrong? Enjoy Poverty and the Case Against Ethics -- Pieter Van Bogaert, On the Outside : Exteriority as Condition for Resistance -- Nina M�ontmann and Eyal Weizman, Forms of Power and Humanitarianism -- Beyond Enjoy Poverty -- Laurens Otto, Notes on Texts -- J. A. Koster, The Poverty of Critique : Episode III : Enjoy Poverty and Humanitarianism -- Ariella A�isha Azoulay, The Double Gift Economy -- Gregory Sholette, Privilege as Form : I Have Nothing to Say About Renzo Martens -- Suhail Malik, The Global Value Chain of the White Cube -- Angela Dimitrakaki, Art Without Delusions, Workers Without Food, Modernity Without End -- Renzo Martens, Art for the Post-Plantation -- End Matter -- Episode III : Enjoy Poverty, Credits -- Xander Karskens, A Brief History of Episode III : Enjoy Poverty in a Collection Context -- Screening List -- Bibliography -- Biographies -- Acknowledgments -- Colophon.