After the Crash

In After the Crash, Hito Steyerl examines the material and visual aftermath of technological breakdowns. The decommissioned airplanes scattered across the Californian desert appear not simply as ruins, but as elements within a continued cycle in which objects, images, and economic processes persist long after their original function has ended.

Steyerl is less concerned with the crash as a dramatic event than with what follows it: the transitional states in which infrastructures decay, are reassessed, and acquire new meanings. Through a combination of documentary footage and essayistic interventions, the work reveals how closely technological systems, visual culture, and economic dynamics remain intertwined.