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Museums inside out : artist collaborations and new exhibition ecologies
No full text"Museums Inside Out explores a wide range of contemporary museum practices, curatorial initiatives, and collaborative projects that are "moving out" of the museum's traditional spatial practices of archiving, exhibiting, and viewing culture. Focusing on the relationship between artists and what the author calls "the translocal," Moving Out examines the tensions among museums and urban spaces, cultural memory, digital culture, activism, the environment, and the cultural politics of the "creative economy." Rectanus argues that many museums increasingly promote social advocacy and curatorial practices that reject notions of neutrality, while simultaneously being bound up and constrained within neoliberal economies and financial interests as well as the ambitions of being a "global museum.""-- Provided by publisher.Rethinking museums -- Architectures of memory -- Cartographies of urban space and performance -- Datascapes and landscapes -- Museums and the creative economy -- Museum futures and speculations
The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark.
No full textContemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches. However, literary studies on the Gospel of Mark have not taken into account theoretical questions underlying those approaches. As a result biblical critics are driven by new trends without ever having a chance to examine the critical baggage of the approaches. Consequently, there is a gap of communication between the old and the new one. Therefore this thesis is an attempt to meet the need of enhancing the quality of critical endeavour in biblical studies. In the light of most recent competing critical theories of literature, the first contribution of this thesis is the methodological finding that Bakhtinian dialogic criticism contains the most profound philosophical and practical foundations for solving some crucial theoretical problems in contemporary literary theories. It is a critique to a Saussurian linguistic system of language which becomes the very foundation of modern and postmodern literary criticism. Bakhtinian literary theory shifts the foundation of literary criticism on linguistic signs into the creative activity of the socio-cultural production of human communication. The shift into socio-cultural reality of language communication makes the notion of 'genre' very important to unlock the problem of text and context in literary studies. Since the Gospel of Mark has fascinated most literary critics in Biblical Studies, the problem of 'genre' of this gospel is chosen as the focus of this study. Secondly, as no agreement is reached as to what 'genre' the Gospel of Mark belongs, this thesis makes its contribution to the discussion by locating the problem of 'genre' of Mark in the context of genre theories and argues that the Bakhtinian suggestion to find genre in the socio-cultural sphere by analysing artistic intercourse between narrative agents in Mark has freed the competing analysis from the unresolved problem between the kerygmatic (content oriented) approach and the analogical (form oriented) approach. To achieve finding 'genre' in the socio-cultural sphere, this thesis focuses on Bakhtinian analysis of the process of artistic intercourse between narrative agents. The narrative communicative interrelationships between narrative agents is constructed in this thesis as a 'stereophonic' Bakhtinian model of dialogic communication. This model is an original contribution of this thesis for revising the traditional two dimensional model of narrative communication. Based on this dialogical model of communication, a special role is given to the Bakhtinian 'author-creator' in the realization process of genre through the interaction of polyphonic voices. Through the interaction of voices of the author-artist and the hero we are led to discover a relatively stable type of portraying and controlling reality in Mark, known as the genre of Roman 'satire'. The closest literary affinity is Satyrica by Petronius. This narrative strategy of 'satire' in Mark has its root in the prophetic discourse of the Old Testament which is saturating the speech of the narrator, John the Immerser, the centurion, the people, and even Jesus. Finally, the whole search for Markan 'genre' culminates in the analysis of the realization of genre through the analysis of Bakhtinian chronotope. The reality of the genre of Mark is its social reality that is in its role as dpxrj/ 'beginning'. As the Gospel of Mark proclaims itself as 'a beginning', it defines its claim of socio-cultural 'authority' in early Christianity. It is this 'sense of beginning' which enables the narrating and the narrated world of Mark to interact dialogically
„Schreib den Roman deiner Generation“. Thomas Brasch und die Dialektik der Aufklärung
No full textErhart W. „Schreib den Roman deiner Generation“. Thomas Brasch und die Dialektik der Aufklärung. In: Rectanus MW, ed. Über Gegenwartsliteratur. Interpretationen und Interventionen / About Contemporary Literature. Festschrift für Paul Michael Lützeler on his 65th Birthday. Bielefeld: Aisthesis; 2008: 175-192
Transdisciplinary Case Studies as a Framework for Working in Global Project Teams (2013)
No full textThis article will examine how transdisciplinary case studies can be used to introduce students to critical skills for global project management and intercultural competency. The combination of case study formats, global project management tools, and intercultural communication activities provides frameworks for developing multiple competencies that span professional disciplines and support global internships, service learning projects, or international research assignments. Case studies that draw upon diverse resources and experiential “reports from the field” enable students to successfully prepare for global internships or study abroad and transition from the world of academic study to the complex challenges of everyday life in a global profession by developing their own personal “case study” as an ongoing process of personal and professional reflection and engagement.This article is published as Rectanus, M.W. Transdisciplinary Case Studies as a Framework for Working in Global Project Teams. Online Journal for Global Engineering Education (OJGEE). 2013, 6(1)a9;https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/ojgee/vol6/iss1/9/. Posted with permission
Transactivism, the Translocal, Art and Performance
No full textThe 2014 exhibition ‘Global aCtIVISm: Art and Conflict in the 21st Century’ at the ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, Germany) underscored the growing significance of activism, art, performance and notions of the civic (civis). While the exhibition referenced global activism, the ZKM documentation and catalog demonstrate that most activist movements begin locally or regionally. Contemporary activist movements engage performative art (‘artivism’) to move across boundaries, spaces, platforms and media that are increasingly translocal. Translocal collectives and initiators create strategies and practices that are shared and collaborative -- while also adopting flexible and responsive forms of organization, ‘commoning’ and civic engagement that are transactivist. This article examines how projects by the collaborative MAMAZA, the arts project IDENSITAT and co-created projects by the artist-geographer Trevor Paglen contribute to a diverse landscape of emerging interventions that may be less overtly signified as protest, or institutional critique, but provide translocal interrogations that also rethink notions of civic engagement and performance. These projects also challenge audiences to engage in a dialectic of ‘performative seeing’ which asks them to imagine what might become visible by exposing the socio-political and virtual spaces of the invisible, but also to consider who or what remains absent. The article suggests that translocal perspectives not only provide an aperture for developing a fuller understanding of how the relations among activism, art and performance are being renegotiated through forms of transactivism, but also indicate that the terrain of contemporary activist practices has become increasingly complex and textured.This accepted article is published as Rectanus, Mark W., Transactivism, the Translocal, Art and Performance. Performance Research, 2016, 21(5);123-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2016.1224343. Posted with permission. this article is under CC BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Keeping objects live
No full textIt is often assumed that museum exhibits are inert but, in contrast to artifacts in most mainstream institutions, those at the Museum of Witchcraft, The Valiant Soldier community museum, and the Dartmoor Prison Museum are felt to be fully functioning and, to some extent, potent or dangerous. In order to consider why this is the case, this essay investigates how museums are considered to “kill off” their exhibits and why this process does not occur in these small, independent organizations. Notably, the three venues have few or no paid members of staff and limited opportunities for gaining state funding. Operating largely independently of the public sector, they have no need to adopt official priorities and in consequence their modes of practice differ from those encountered in major institutions. They also have close links to their immediate location and communities. Focusing on these museums therefore raises the possibility that the “death” of objects is not a necessary condition but that their demise depends upon the specific character and circumstances of display
The Artist’s Museum as Reversed Cultural Space
No full textDuring 2019-20, visitors to the Haus der Kunst (HDK), a non-collecting museum for contemporary art in Munich, could view Black Chapel, created by the Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates. Black Chapel was a platform for Gates’ "museum within a museum", or an artist’s museum, composed of Gates’ sculptures, collections of images, and artefacts, including Jesse Owens’ music album collection. This article examines how Gates’ project deploys the historical signifiers and artefacts of Black urban experience in order to challenge the historical space of the Haus der Kunst. I argue that Black Chapel not only contributes to artistic experiments in museum making, it also creates a reversed cultural space and counternarratives within the architectural space of the HDK - a museum which was originally commissioned by Adolf Hitler as a platform for National Socialist art and cultural politics.This article is published as Rectanus, M. (2025). The Artist’s Museum as Reversed Cultural Space: Theaster Gates’ Black Chapel at the Haus der Kunst (Munich). Museum & Society, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v23i1.4716
Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: How to be a liberal with Ian Dunt
No full textOn this Democracy Sausage Extra, Ian Dunt - host of the Oh God, What Now? podcast and author of How to be a liberal - joins Mark Kenny to discuss the history of liberal thought, how it has shaped present day politics, and the origins of the ‘culture wars’. Have the culture wars emerged out of the failures of liberalism? Why haven’t contemporary political actors done more to protect people from prejudice and the tyranny of the majority? And is liberalism a natural corollary to democracy? On this Democracy Sausage Extra, author, political journalist and broadcaster Ian Dunt joins Professor Mark Kenny to discuss the history of political thought, present day politics, and liberalism’s trajectory
[Interview with Mark Lane in Playboy Magazine #3]
No full textPoor quality photocopies of a magazine article which appeared in Playboy Magazine. The article features an extensive interview with Mark Lane, an attorney and author, who is critical of the Warren Commission's assessment of the assassination of President Kennedy
Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Full circle with Scott Ludlam
No full textOn this episode of Democracy Sausage, Scott Ludlam, former Greens Deputy Leader and author of the new book Full Circle: A search for the world that comes next, joins Mark Kenny to discuss what he learnt from his time in politics and Australian climate policy. What role do corporate and private interests play in shaping Australian policy-making? Will the country make changes to political donation rules to make the system more transparent? And how can Australia make meaningful progress on climate policy? On this episode of Democracy Sausage, Professor Mark Kenny speaks with former Greens Senator Scott Ludlam about Australian politics, his new book, and Section 44 of the Constitution
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