The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun) are a London-based collaborative working in film, sound, visual, and archival media. They produce research projects, texts, installations, and films, focussing on a wide range of topics from the fraught geology of California, to the adaptive slum architectures of Bombay, India; frequently engaging with broader themes: the injustices and violence of global capitalism, post-coloniality, iconography and media, the utopian projects of Modernism, theories of the Anthropocene, and the interconnection of the forces of contemporary global capital and climatological crises.<\/p>\n
Otolith utilizes traditional methods of scientific and humanistic research in their documentary-like filmic production. In their words, they have focused primarily on “the essay film as a form that seeks to look at conditions, events and histories in their most expanded form<\/a>.” Alongside many of their films, the Otolith Group also produces research archives of information and materials collected through their projects. They turn this archival material into full-scale thematic installations including interior design, film projection, sound, and archival reading rooms.<\/p>\n Otolith have been featured at Documenta and were nominated for the 2010 Turner Prize.<\/p>\n Otolith Group Website<\/a><\/p>\n