Responding to the rapid, often violent transformations of the 21st century, artists have displayed a growing desire to activate art's documentary capacity: its ability to bear witness to things
in the world. The Storyteller isolates an overlooked yet vital strand within this broader tendency: the use of the story form in contemporary art as a means of comprehending and conveying
recent social and political events. The book features works by Cao Fei, Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis, Omer Fast, Mounir Fatmi, Ryan Gander, Lamia Joreige, Joachim Koester, Emanuel Licha,
Missing Books, Steve Mumford, Adrian Paci, Michael Rakowitz, Lilsa Roberts, and Hito Steyerl, and includes essays by Okwui Enwezor, T.J. Demos, and the editors.
