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On Hearing Together Critically: Making Aural Politics Sensible Through Art & Ethnography
Get PDFThis article investigates the politics of sensing through the productions of aurality enacted at tourist and heritage venues in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Drawing on six summers of fieldwork with tourist producers in the region, the article traces how aural experiences and stances are used to make and manage frontier worlds for tourists. It argues that the exploitation and colonization of local Lakota lifeworlds is crucial to producing frontier experiences and that aural modes are the most powerful and subtle means to managing these experiences. It introduces three experiments to critically engage how hearing and listening are shaped along racial lines at these venues and argues for the necessity of more artistic approaches to ethnography. Ultimately, the article claims that anthropologists must grapple with both the representational and sensorial politics of their presently embodied practices and future knowledge productions
Inventive Methods. Künstlerische Ansätze in der ethnographischen Stadtforschung
Get PDFIn the field of contemporary urban research, there is a growing realization that urban configurations, collective imaginations as well as complex networks of power cannot be examined and interpreted adequately by applying only classical methods of social science. This text looks at different kinds of knowledge production within the research and exhibition project Global Prayers focusing on processes of research, the invention of methods, the collection and analysis of data, and their translation into formats for presentation. In the context of theoretical concepts on the role of ethnographic and artistic research, examples from the Global Prayers project are re-viewed to analyze several methodological procedures, such as multi-sited ethnography, sound recordings, enactments, and interventions as promising challenges for inventive urban research
Dem Malinowski-Blues entgehen: Körperorientierte Entspannungsübungen zur Stressbewältigung während der Feldforschung
Get PDFEthnographische Feldforschung kann zu faszinierenden und überraschenden wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen führen. Oft werden EthnologInnen aber auch mit stressinduzierenden und manchmal traumatisierenden Erlebnissen während der Feldforschung konfrontiert. In diesem Artikel wird TRE (Tension, Stress & Trauma Releasing Exercises) als eine effektive Methode zur Stressbewältigung vor, während und nach der Feldforschung vorgestellt. Bei TRE handelt es sich um ein körperorientiertes Entspannungsverfahren, welches stressbedingte muskuläre Verspannungen löst und dadurch auch den Gemütszustand verbessern kann
Greifeld, Katarina (Hg.) (2013): Medizinethnologie. Eine Einführung. 204 S., Berlin: Reimer
Get PDFGreifeld, Katarina (Hg.) (2013): Medizinethnologie. Eine Einführung. 204 S., Berlin: Reimer
“I am the instrument that people might play” – Participation and Collaboration in Contemporary Art from Havana
Get PDFIn my paper I will focus on the relational art projects of René Francisco Rodriguez, a Cuban artist and professor at the Instituto Superior de Arte, living and working in Havana. Cuba, its special political and economic situation and the social process it produces, are the point of departure for the artist, while at the same time his oeuvre is widely perceived outside the island.In his art projects René Francisco Rodriguez leaves the studio with the intention to participate in the life of Havana’s people, engage in a kind of anthropological fieldwork and make art inspired by contact and collaboration. In this article I will give an account of his project “Agua Benita” (2008), realized in one of the urban districts of Havana, in direct contact with its inhabitants. The paper will contribute to the question about entanglement and borders between relational art and other social approaches and relations to people, like anthropological research as well as social and political engagement
Quee(Re)Appropriations and Sovereign Art Statements in the Work of Kent Monkman
Get PDFKent Monkman is a First Nations artist who employs a number of strategies that I term quee(re)appropriations. Quee(re)appropriations are a specific form of reappropriation, a form that challenges the heteronormativity of dominant hegemony and highlights the confrontational and direct nature of the reclamation in the form of re-appropriation. Queer, here an adjective, describes practices that explicitly create alternatives to dominant culture. Historically, appropriation, seizure and confiscation have been used by conquerors as tools of empire, often through the field of anthropology under the guise of documentation and preservation. The seemingly documentarian collection of indigenous images and culture, selectively appropriated by colonial powers, have been used to justify a hierarchical power structure that led to expansion, relocation and genocide. Monkman uses quee(re)appropriation, or the queer re-appropriation of images previously appropriated by colonial powers, to shift the power structure and challenge hegemony. Quee(re)appropriations enable Monkman to make his own sovereign decolonial and two spirited artistic statements.All of Kent Monkman’s work, as well as his biography, CV and more can be found on his website: kentmonkman.co
FOOD RELATED: An Artistic Approach Towards Knowledge Sharing
Get PDFArtistic participatory practices can establish connections between people(s) that are valuable for the sharing of knowledge. In this article, I explain from my research practice how an artistic approach can stimulate, structure and enrich knowledge sharing. During my doctoral research at KU Leuven in Belgium, a prototype of an expressive space was designed to collect, map and exchange facts and experiences related to Arctic food culture: the Food Related platform. Decisions that I made and strategies that I used during this project are reviewed while focusing on two topics: 1) food as a subject and stimulus for sharing, 2) the use of creative questionnaires and cultural probes as a method to include imagination. Empirical findings give insight in my experiences and approaches as an artist, which I believe can be inspirational for knowledge sharing projects beyond the field of art
With unveiled face – what the portrait reveals of myself and of the others (\u27A visage découvert, ce que le portrait dit de moi et des autres\u27)
Get PDFThis article describes and depicts the encounter of a group of migrant French language trainees with very different background with the environment of classic paintings in Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Having never been in a museum before, these students have special ways of meeting this environment, of bringing their own cultural references and experiences to this collaborative project. The project photographs each student in front of the chosen work with an object that has been carefully selected both for its connection with the work and with a personal experience. This represents a very emotional moment for the participants: They allow themselves to be photographed and take stage by investing and presenting personally selected works. A dialogue emerges between the art-piece and the personal reality of each participant. The outcome is a triptych of pictures in combination with a statement
Shifting patterns, zooming layers, focusing processes. Art and anthropology in a transforming and translucent world
Get PDFThis article offers an overview over the thriving field of (con)current art and anthropology collaborations in the domains of words as well as works. Introducing the exemplary contributions of artists, art historians, curators and anthropologists to this special edition I argue that in an ever transforming, politically contested and ecologically threatened world the two disciplines have the potential to zoom in on patterns, processes and layers of a textured and translucent reality that is far from being sufficiently understood or represented
Ethno meets Art Ein experimenteller Dialog zwischen Ethnologie und Kunst über den Begriff der \u27Achtsamkeit\u27
Get PDFThe following article is an empirical experiment in form of a dialogue between two representatives of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Art. Here, Frank André Weigelt speaks as an anthropologist and Miriam Vogt as an artist. For the dialogue Miriam has also created a work of art that has been woven into the text in form of multiple images. The starting point of the dialogue is the assumption that human experiences are based on sensory impressions and “conscious observation”. The focus of the common working concept is the primordial Buddhist concept of “mindfulness”. One result of the dialogue is to provide impetus for both an artistic exploration of the theme as well as for the anthropological practice. In a broader sense, the contribution also provides an input to thinking ahead Tim Ingolds concept of “Education of Attention” toward an “Education of mind” on the basis of “mindfulness”