1,021 research outputs found
TRAUM: Transforming Author Museums, 2019
No full textWhat roles have author museums as creators of cultural identity? What kind of representations do they use to communicate knowledge about literature and its authors? How are real and literary spaces, texts and objects interlinked? Author museums are in the public imagination often associated with an old-fashioned cult of the author, they are being transformed into interactive spaces in line with changing understandings of literature, developments in exhibition practices and larger processes of democratization. This interdisciplinary project aimed to provide analyses of museums as cultural texts and performative spaces of memory and production. In the past years, the alleged crisis of the humanities has been a recurring topic of debate. While criticism has been levelled at the humanities for lack of relevance, informal polls made in various countries across Europe asking for the most important personality in national history have consistently placed artists on the top, often writers, and in the case of Norway, Henrik Ibsen. There is a paradoxical relationship between the discourse of the uselessness of humanities and the actual interest in and identification with some of its actors. The project aimed to investigate how and why (certain) writers and literature have been turned into cultural heritage, helped by the display of auratic places such as their homes in combination with the aestheticization of personal "relics" within specific cultural-political contexts. Combining humanities, social sciences and artistic perspectives, it will critically reflect on existing and historical exhibition strategies and consider alternative and innovative ways of displaying literature, focusing on the potentials of author museums and other literary museums and centres as sites of cultural production and literary creativity. On a meta-level the project aimed to contribute to a better understanding of how to communicate the relevance of humanities to the public. The project is part of the NFR project “TRAUM-Transforming Author Museums (251225)”. The focus of the sub-project is on exhibitions in author homes. The analysis includes the role of archival material in exhibitions (published article by Ulrike Spring), communication processes in literary museums and the author's role as ghost in author homes (articles in preparation by Ulrike Spring and Johan Schimanski). For further information about ”TRAUM: Transforming Author Museums, 2019”, please contact the principal investigator
TRAUM - Transforming Author Museums, 2017
No full textPictures of two author museums in South Africa. The project involves an analysis of two South African historic homes that have been turned into museums for authors. The two South African museums are the Sol Plaatje museum in Kimberley and the Olive Schreiner House in Cradock. The main aim of the project is to examine current practices of author museums from contemporary and historical perspectives, with the aim of developing new interpretations of author museums as spaces of knowledge transfer and cultural production. The project aims to investigate how and why (certain) writers and literature have been turned into cultural heritage, helped by the display of auratic places such as their homes in combination with the aestheticization of personal 'relics' within specific cultural-political contexts
Die ‚noethische‘ Funktion von Wissenschaftssprache und -mustern bei Ulrike Draesner
No full textUlrike Draesner, in her multifaceted activity as a scholar, translator, essayist, but above all author of poetry
and prose, develops a discourse on the body, landscapes and memory that is always polyphonic and cross-
linguistic. Memory travels through unexpected connections between areas of knowledge and experience,
capable of linking organic and inorganic nature, ancient world memory, individual and collective historical
memory and post-memory, theory of knowledge and ethics of living together among people, between
humans and things, between human kind and nature.
In my contribution I will be trying, through case-studies, to highlight the poetic, ethical, creative, therefore
po(i)ethical role played by scientific languages and lexika in Ulrike Draesner's writing.
As a “poeta docta”, Draesner is an artist and not as a scientist or philosopher. The aggregations of sense and
memory do not only travel on the logic of images and themes, but also on the surprising intersections
between sense and sound, as well as between different languages
I+E Illumination and Emanation; Light as Body Adornment and the Implications of Wearable Light
Get PDFI+E Illumination and Emanation; Light As Body Adornment and the Implications of Wearable Light is practice-based research that exploits advances in miniature light sources in order to establish new forms of aesthetic expression through wearable light.
I+E investigates how wearable light interacts with the body and its environment; it explores how this interaction shapes the visual perception of the body and establishes a critical framework for the description and evaluation of wearable light.
Practice working with light and body crosses disciplines from jewellery and fashion to fine art, performance and lens-based media. Wearable light, however, is a new field with few precedents and potential for future applications in sportswear, therapeutic rehabilitation and personal safety.
A reflexive, and adaptive methodology characterized the research process in which practice was the main vehicle, informed by the selection of critical context and continuous external feedback. Due to the cross-disciplinary nature of wearable light collaborative projects with practitioners in art & design and technological experts were balanced with experimental solo projects.
The research outcome is a body of work that investigates wearable light in a variety of applications such as light jewellery, performance and lens-based media.
Original contributions to knowledge are: in developing an experimental, practice-based research methodology with a particular focus on the role of collaborations vis-à-vis solo projects, and the expansion of the role of the practitioner from designer-maker to ‘auteur’, the focus and conduit in the practice of a new and complex performance art based on wearable light; in developing a critical vocabulary for the description and evaluation of wearable light and in investigating the mechanics of placing light on the body and its effects on the perception of the body in its environment
Rationalisierung des Außersinnlichen? Zur Wissenschaftlichkeit der Parapsycholgie: Manfred Omahna und Ulrike Spring im Gespräch mit Peter Mulacz
Get PDFOIMB Term Photo: Spring 1984
No full textSpring 1984
Back Row: Gregor Durstewitz, Annette Lalka, Misaki (Yaz) Yasushiro, Sean de Meritt, Andrew Harvey.
Middle Row: Bayard McConnaughey, Will Brady, Ania Driscoll, Karen Chaix, Herschel Stern, Don Blom, Martin Blackman, Jake Bottero.
Front Row: Jack Rush, Sharon Clark, Jan Hodder, Jil Cohen, Suellen Mele, Raymond Voight, Joe Edney, Bill Todd, Pepper, Jerry Rudy, Mike Graybill, Susanne Wache, Ulrike Braun
Biography and works. Communication processes in author museums: An Introduction
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Images and stories from the borderlands
Get PDFMy paper introduces geo-political and symbolic dynamics of 21st century Europe through three conceptual prisms: those of borders or border communities, networks, and neighbourhoods. Each of these can be seen as both descriptive lenses for capturing specific phenomenon of social interaction in geographical spaces as well as metaphors for imagining human encounters across visible or invisible divisions, such as for example nationhood, ethnicity, race, religion or gender. In the first part, my paper analyses the implications for each of these imaginaries for theoretical and empirical research. In the second part I will show with different examples how these conceptual frames affected my own fieldwork practices in a series of European research projects during the last decade: European Border Discourse, 2000-2003; Changing City Spaces 2002-2005, Sefone 2007-2010 and TNMundi 2006-2010. Examples will include a rich, multi-layered spectrum of every-day life narratives as well as examples of artistic productions. A version of this paper with the text of interviews in both German and English throughout is available on request from the author
09142 Manifesto – Perspectives Workshop: Preventing the Brainware Crisis
No full textThis manifesto summarizes the outcomes of the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop "Preventing the Brainware Crisis" held in Spring 2009. Our acquired goals are summarized by the following recommendations: to make computer science/computing science/informatics programs more attractive to women, to make curricula more engaging and interdisciplinary, and to make the public more aware of computer scientists’ work. We address specific audiences with particular recommendations and feature 10 tips on how to publicize computer science via the media
Spring-Loading at the Molecular Level: Relaxation of Guest-Induced Strain in Channel Inclusion Compounds
No full textSpring-Loading at the Molecular Level: Relaxation
of Guest-Induced Strain in Channel Inclusion
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