Selected Essays and Conversations from recent Publications
Forensic Fallacies – Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism
Lutz Koepnick [published in Transnational German Film at the End of Neoliberalism, 2024)
Affective Witnessing as Theory and Practice / Parallax Magazine No. 96
Michael Richardson & Kerstin Schankweiler, Parallax Magazine No.96, 2021
Stan Douglas in conversation with Mario Pfeifer
[published in If you end with the story..., edited by Gaëtane Verna published by Mousse Publishing, 2021)
A humanity condemned to disappear?
Georg Imdahl [published in If you end with the story..., edited by Gaëtane Verna published by Mousse Publishing, 2021)
Let us do something, while we have the chance
Nomaduma R. Masilela [published in If you end with the story..., edited by G. Verna published by Mousse Publishing, 2021)
Records in Motion – Migrants and Mobile Spectatorship
Lutz Koepnick [published in Gegen/Dokumentation , transcript Verlag, 2020)
On #blacktivist
Jan Kedves [ published in Willem de Rooij & Mario Pfeifer, edited by Elodie Evers, published by Acud Gallery, 2016)
This is a Nation of Lost Soul
Marium Raja in conversation with Mario Pfeifer (A Nation of a Billions, Blog entry, July 2016)
The Anthropological Gaze
Amira Gad in conversation with Mario Pfeifer [ at The Baltic - Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, on October 19, 2015 ]
Experience is Knowledge
Thomas Seelig in conversation with Mario Pfeifer [ published in Approximation in the digital age to a humanity condemned to disappear, Sternberg Press, 2015 ]
I do not wish to speak about / only to speak nearby
Lauren Elliott on Approximation in the digital age to a humanity condemned to disappear [ published online in conjunction with Circa Projects, Newcastle, 2015 ]
In Conversation
Susanne Gaensheimer with Mario Pfeifer [ published in A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue and Epilogue - A Critical Reader, Spector Books, 2013 ]
Blurring the Boundaries - The underpinnings of Mario Pfeifer’s flexible installation
Amira Gad [ published in A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue and Epilogue - A Critical Reader, Spector Books, 2013 ]
In Conversation
Shuddhabrata Sengupta and Nikolaus Hirsch with Mario Pfeifer [ published in A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue and Epilogue - A Critical Reader, Spector Books, 2013 ]
Imagining India - Reflections on Mario Pfeifer’s A Formal Film
Ranjit Hoskote [ published in A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue and Epilogue - A Critical Reader, Spector Books, 2013 ]
In Conversation
Christy Lange with Mario Pfeifer [ published in Three Films/Three Photographs, Fotohof edition, 2013 ]
Reconsidering: A Trick Without Context is a Gesture
Nicolas Linnert [ published in Three Films/Three Photographs, Fotohof edition, 2013 ]
What Key Be to Lock: On Untitled [“Two Guys”]
Michael Ned Holte [ published in Three Films/Three Photographs, Fotohof edition, 2013 ]
Introduction II
Julia Moritz [ published in Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974, Sternberg Press, 2011)
An E-Mail Conversation
Lewis Baltz and Mario Pfeifer [ published in Reconsidering The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California by Lewis Baltz, 1974, Sternberg Press, 2011)
Podcasts
Deutsche Welle – Inside Europe
Inside Europe's Kate Laycock in Conversation with Mario Pfeifer [11/2021]
Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Der Fall Oury Jalloh
Massimo Maio in Conversation with Mario Pfeifer [11/2021]
SWR2 Aktuelle Kultur
Wilm Hüffer in Conversation with Mario Pfeifer [06/2021]
Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Kompressor: Aktivisten in die Kunsthallen?
Massimo Maio in Conversation with Mario Pfeifer [11/2020]
WDR Scala – Empört euch! Kunst in Zeiten des Zorns
Berit Hempel in Conversation with Mario Pfeifer [11/2020]
Art Basel Conversations – Podcast
Gaëtane Verna in Conversation with Mario Pfeifer [06/2020]
Museum Folkwang – Podcast
Georg Imdahl in Conversation with Mario Pfeifer [03/2020]
BBC Evidently Art – Podcast
Andrew McGibbon meets the artists behind works that visualise criminal investigations and abuses of power, bringing evidence to the art gallery and holding perpetrators to account w/ Forensic Architecture, Mario Pfeifer [08/ 2019]
Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Kompressor: Unbequeme Fragen
Gesa Ufer in Conversation with Mario Pfeifer [09/2018]