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'Sparring Partners': Introduction to ifa-Gallery Reflections Series published online on Untie to Tie: On Colonial Legacies ... website
"Gallery reflections is a series of public discussions on art, institutions, and curatorial practices convened by anthropologist Jonas Tinius. The encounters take place in the ifa-gallery Berlin once per chapter, crisscrossing the overall themes and decentring the focal points of the one-year programme ‘Untie to tie: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies’ (2017-2018) curated by the gallery’s director Alya Sebti. In this first column and introduction to the series, Jonas Tinius writes about the role of discourse and conversation, reflection and listening, in rethinking a possible dialogue between anthropology, curatorial practice, and contemporary artistic work with decolonial perspectives."
Read the full essay here.
"Gallery reflections is a series of public discussions on art, institutions, and curatorial practices convened by anthropologist Jonas Tinius. The encounters take place in the ifa-gallery Berlin once per chapter, crisscrossing the overall themes and decentring the focal points of the one-year programme ‘Untie to tie: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies’ (2017-2018) curated by the gallery’s director Alya Sebti. In this first column and introduction to the series, Jonas Tinius writes about the role of discourse and conversation, reflection and listening, in rethinking a possible dialogue between anthropology, curatorial practice, and contemporary artistic work with decolonial perspectives."
Read the full essay here.
'Parrhesia and Autopoiesis' talk at Viron Erol Vert's Exhibition BORN IN THE PURPLE, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin 17.8.2017
In the evening on 17 August 2017, I will be speaking about forms of self-making, frank speech, and the politics of fiction in German-Turkish artist Viron Erol Vert's Porphyra Club, part of his 12-room exhibition BORN IN THE PURPLE at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, co-curated by Didem Yazıcı and Melina Gersteman. They have put together quite an incredible discursive programme that accompanies the exhibition and speaks to its broader themes in an environment that itself criss-crosses and informs the theme of the show.
Born in The Purple is an interdisciplinary exhibition project by Berlin–Istanbul– based artist Viron Erol Vert that revolves around global urgencies including cultural supremacy, identitarian abuse and basic human rights. Vert shows 12 newly produced artistic positions in the exhibition as well as invites the public and guests to join in the Porphyra Club, a social space within the exhibition, to share thoughts, knowledge and sensuous moments. Coming from old Istanbulian family roots which blend Greek–orthodox, Arab, Levantine, Armenian and Sephardic cultures, Vert takes Istanbul’s ancient history and its recent past as focal points for Born in The Purple. His family apartment in Istanbul’s Osmanbey, one of many minority districts in the city, functions as a scenic framing of the exhibition, that unfolds itself in the 12 rooms of Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien. Through everyday life objects, patterns, melodies, idioms, youth and childhood memories, Vert does not merely reflect on the peculiarities of the status of minorities and concepts of flexible citizenship, but also refers to major power shifts and hegemonic con- flicts the world over. The heterogenous usage of material, shapes and format in Vert ́s works reflects the diverse perspectives in a multicultural society that can be taken on an alternating reality.
More information: http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de
In the evening on 17 August 2017, I will be speaking about forms of self-making, frank speech, and the politics of fiction in German-Turkish artist Viron Erol Vert's Porphyra Club, part of his 12-room exhibition BORN IN THE PURPLE at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, co-curated by Didem Yazıcı and Melina Gersteman. They have put together quite an incredible discursive programme that accompanies the exhibition and speaks to its broader themes in an environment that itself criss-crosses and informs the theme of the show.
Born in The Purple is an interdisciplinary exhibition project by Berlin–Istanbul– based artist Viron Erol Vert that revolves around global urgencies including cultural supremacy, identitarian abuse and basic human rights. Vert shows 12 newly produced artistic positions in the exhibition as well as invites the public and guests to join in the Porphyra Club, a social space within the exhibition, to share thoughts, knowledge and sensuous moments. Coming from old Istanbulian family roots which blend Greek–orthodox, Arab, Levantine, Armenian and Sephardic cultures, Vert takes Istanbul’s ancient history and its recent past as focal points for Born in The Purple. His family apartment in Istanbul’s Osmanbey, one of many minority districts in the city, functions as a scenic framing of the exhibition, that unfolds itself in the 12 rooms of Kunstraum Kreuzberg/ Bethanien. Through everyday life objects, patterns, melodies, idioms, youth and childhood memories, Vert does not merely reflect on the peculiarities of the status of minorities and concepts of flexible citizenship, but also refers to major power shifts and hegemonic con- flicts the world over. The heterogenous usage of material, shapes and format in Vert ́s works reflects the diverse perspectives in a multicultural society that can be taken on an alternating reality.
More information: http://www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de
CARMAH Public Lecture 'Objects Otherwise' Haidy Geismar (University College London) 26 June 2017, 5pm
We hereby would like to invite you to the CARMAH Public Lecture Objects Otherwise by Haidy Geismar (Anthropology, University College London) on 26 July 2017 at the Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin. Please find more information below. If you wish to attend, please register via carmah-conference@hu-berlin.de by 17 July 2017 (noon). As space is limited, registration is obligatory. Please bring your confirmation to registration (print-out or show on phone). Feel free to circulate the email and attached poster among interested colleagues.
This talk takes as its focus four objects from different collections that I have worked with over the past years. A box. A cloak. An Effigy. A pen. Each object opens up a host of questions about the interaction between old collections and new technologies, about processes of translation, remediation, and representation, about the legacy of nineteenth century colonialism and collecting within twenty-first century new media; and about the re-articulation of locality and cultural difference within museum technologies. How do new technologies, such as 3D-printing, scanning, social media, and new web-based interfaces alter our understandings of what a collection is, how objects encode knowledge and meaning, tell stories, and what spaces are being created for cultural differences? Here I synthesise my work over many years with ethnographic collections from the Pacific, with photography collections, and with new media, to explore the object lessons and politics of perspective that are emerging for the twenty-first century collections.
Haidy Geismar is Reader in Anthropology at University College London where she is also Vice Dean for Strategic Projects and the Curator of the UCL Ethnography Collections. Since 2000 she has worked with museum collections and communities in Vanuatu and New Zealand. Her research focuses on the contemporary resonance of historical collections, indigenous articulations of intellectual and cultural property, indigenous contemporary art, the politics of display and critical museology, and the capacity of new media to translate and remediate cultural protocols and the materiality of artefacts. She has published extensively on these issues, including 'Moving Images: John Layard, Fieldwork and Photography on Malakula since 1914' (2010, University of Hawaii Press, with Anita Herle and collaborators in Vanuatu, winner of the John Collier Prize for Anthropological work on still photography), and 'Treasured Possessions’ (2013, Duke University Press. She is in the early stages of a project looking at the skill and knowledge networks embedded within digital photography. Her keynote draws from a forthcoming book, focused on the translation of old collections into new media, entitled 'Museum Object Lessons for the Twenty-first Century'.
We hereby would like to invite you to the CARMAH Public Lecture Objects Otherwise by Haidy Geismar (Anthropology, University College London) on 26 July 2017 at the Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin. Please find more information below. If you wish to attend, please register via carmah-conference@hu-berlin.de by 17 July 2017 (noon). As space is limited, registration is obligatory. Please bring your confirmation to registration (print-out or show on phone). Feel free to circulate the email and attached poster among interested colleagues.
This talk takes as its focus four objects from different collections that I have worked with over the past years. A box. A cloak. An Effigy. A pen. Each object opens up a host of questions about the interaction between old collections and new technologies, about processes of translation, remediation, and representation, about the legacy of nineteenth century colonialism and collecting within twenty-first century new media; and about the re-articulation of locality and cultural difference within museum technologies. How do new technologies, such as 3D-printing, scanning, social media, and new web-based interfaces alter our understandings of what a collection is, how objects encode knowledge and meaning, tell stories, and what spaces are being created for cultural differences? Here I synthesise my work over many years with ethnographic collections from the Pacific, with photography collections, and with new media, to explore the object lessons and politics of perspective that are emerging for the twenty-first century collections.
Haidy Geismar is Reader in Anthropology at University College London where she is also Vice Dean for Strategic Projects and the Curator of the UCL Ethnography Collections. Since 2000 she has worked with museum collections and communities in Vanuatu and New Zealand. Her research focuses on the contemporary resonance of historical collections, indigenous articulations of intellectual and cultural property, indigenous contemporary art, the politics of display and critical museology, and the capacity of new media to translate and remediate cultural protocols and the materiality of artefacts. She has published extensively on these issues, including 'Moving Images: John Layard, Fieldwork and Photography on Malakula since 1914' (2010, University of Hawaii Press, with Anita Herle and collaborators in Vanuatu, winner of the John Collier Prize for Anthropological work on still photography), and 'Treasured Possessions’ (2013, Duke University Press. She is in the early stages of a project looking at the skill and knowledge networks embedded within digital photography. Her keynote draws from a forthcoming book, focused on the translation of old collections into new media, entitled 'Museum Object Lessons for the Twenty-first Century'.
Interdisziplinäre Forschungswerkstatt, Bühne des Wissens, Open Lab? Strategien der Präsentation von Wissenschaft im Museum
In dieser Querdenken Sitzung, organisiert von Jonas Tinius (CARMAH), wollen wir uns folgender Frage widmen: Wie stellen wir Wissenschaft dar, und für wen? Dabei wollen wir uns dieser Thematik aus der Perspektive der Zusammenarbeit zwischen (Europäischer) Ethnologie und Ausstellungspraxis annähern, auch um zu reflektieren, welche Perspektiven auf und Schnittmengen mit anderen Repräsentationsformaten der Wissenschaft sich eventuell jenseits der musealen Ausstellungspraxis ergeben. Wir freue uns auf rege Diskussion mit euch, folgend auf Inputs von Joachim Kallinich, Leonore Scholze-Irrlitz, Friedrich von Bose und Margareta von Oswald. Für mehr Informationen, schaut auf die Website des Instituts, wo ihr auch mehr Informationen zum Institutskolloquium findet, das in diesem Semester (SS2017) von CARMAH (Jonas Tinius) und STS Labor (Martina Klausner) organisiert wird. Immer Dienstags, 18.00h (c.t.) im Raum 311 des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/termine/institutskolloquium-sose17-13
In dieser Querdenken Sitzung, organisiert von Jonas Tinius (CARMAH), wollen wir uns folgender Frage widmen: Wie stellen wir Wissenschaft dar, und für wen? Dabei wollen wir uns dieser Thematik aus der Perspektive der Zusammenarbeit zwischen (Europäischer) Ethnologie und Ausstellungspraxis annähern, auch um zu reflektieren, welche Perspektiven auf und Schnittmengen mit anderen Repräsentationsformaten der Wissenschaft sich eventuell jenseits der musealen Ausstellungspraxis ergeben. Wir freue uns auf rege Diskussion mit euch, folgend auf Inputs von Joachim Kallinich, Leonore Scholze-Irrlitz, Friedrich von Bose und Margareta von Oswald. Für mehr Informationen, schaut auf die Website des Instituts, wo ihr auch mehr Informationen zum Institutskolloquium findet, das in diesem Semester (SS2017) von CARMAH (Jonas Tinius) und STS Labor (Martina Klausner) organisiert wird. Immer Dienstags, 18.00h (c.t.) im Raum 311 des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/termine/institutskolloquium-sose17-13
Szene aus der Installation "Kategorien der Unwahrhaftigkeit" des Ruhrorter-Kollektivs, Mülheim 2016 (Foto: Franziska Götzen)
gallery reflection #1 Urban Space and Diasporic Formation (ifa-gallery Berlin) now online as video-documentation
Thanks to ifa-gallery and video artists Hanna Prenzel and Anike Joyce Sadiq, the video-recording of our first gallery reflection is now available on youtube and on the dedicated online platform of the annual programme of the ifa-gallery Untie to tie: On Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies.
Gallery reflections is a series of public discussions on institutions, artistic critique, and curatorial practices moderated by anthropologist Jonas Tinius. The encounters take place in the ifa-gallery as part of the annual programme, crisscrossing the overall themes and decentring the focal points of the annual programme Untie to tie – Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies at ifa Gallery Berlin.
A conversation between Dr Noa Ha (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin; research fields: postcolonial urbanism, Asian diasporas in European cities; Board member of "Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg"), Trang Tran Thu (Berlin Asian Film Network/Anthropologist working on Vietnamese diaspora in Berlin), Hyunsin Kim (Choreographer and Performer), and Dr Jonas Tinius (Anthropologist, CARMAH/HU Berlin).
Find more information and check out the video here or by clicking on the image below: http://untietotie.org/documentation/gallery-reflection-1/
Thanks to ifa-gallery and video artists Hanna Prenzel and Anike Joyce Sadiq, the video-recording of our first gallery reflection is now available on youtube and on the dedicated online platform of the annual programme of the ifa-gallery Untie to tie: On Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies.
Gallery reflections is a series of public discussions on institutions, artistic critique, and curatorial practices moderated by anthropologist Jonas Tinius. The encounters take place in the ifa-gallery as part of the annual programme, crisscrossing the overall themes and decentring the focal points of the annual programme Untie to tie – Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies at ifa Gallery Berlin.
A conversation between Dr Noa Ha (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin; research fields: postcolonial urbanism, Asian diasporas in European cities; Board member of "Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg"), Trang Tran Thu (Berlin Asian Film Network/Anthropologist working on Vietnamese diaspora in Berlin), Hyunsin Kim (Choreographer and Performer), and Dr Jonas Tinius (Anthropologist, CARMAH/HU Berlin).
Find more information and check out the video here or by clicking on the image below: http://untietotie.org/documentation/gallery-reflection-1/
Lecture at The School of Everything Symposium, Parliament of Bodies (documenta 14 public programme) in Athens, 6-7 July 2017
Next week, I'll be giving a lecture on anthropology, partiality, and decolonisation at The School of Everything in the Parliament of Bodies in Athens. This is part of the public programme convened by Paul B. Preciado, and the School is conceptualised by Joulia Strauss and curated by AthenSYN - a collective of Greek and German artists, scholars, and activists.
More information: http://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/23511/the-school-of-everything-at-the-parliament-of-bodies
Next week, I'll be giving a lecture on anthropology, partiality, and decolonisation at The School of Everything in the Parliament of Bodies in Athens. This is part of the public programme convened by Paul B. Preciado, and the School is conceptualised by Joulia Strauss and curated by AthenSYN - a collective of Greek and German artists, scholars, and activists.
More information: http://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/23511/the-school-of-everything-at-the-parliament-of-bodies
2017 Company of Ideas Forum ART AND KNOWLEDGE IN THE 20TH CENTURY, The Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park, Vancouver (Canada)
I am very much looking forward to this year's Company of Ideas Forum organised by Cambridge art historians Dr Vid Simoniti and Dr James Fox. It will take place on Hornby Island, also the location of the amazing Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park. My talk is entitled "After Autonomy: Art and Anthropology in Dialogue”. Below is some more information:
"At this year's forum, we will debate how artists in the 20th century interacted with other fields of inquiry. The idea that art is autonomous - accountable only to itself - was core to various conceptions of what truly modern art should be, dominating accounts as varied as those of Theodor Adorno and Clement Greenberg. Nevertheless, artists often drew inspiration from other disciplines to make their work: be it by considering mathematical theories to create geometric abstraction or by drawing on philosophy and sociology to make conceptual work. Considering art movements from both before and after the Second World War, our speakers discuss how this openness to new ideas influenced artistic ingenuity, as well as where it leaves art today."
http://rubinoffsculpturepark.org/index.php
I am very much looking forward to this year's Company of Ideas Forum organised by Cambridge art historians Dr Vid Simoniti and Dr James Fox. It will take place on Hornby Island, also the location of the amazing Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park. My talk is entitled "After Autonomy: Art and Anthropology in Dialogue”. Below is some more information:
"At this year's forum, we will debate how artists in the 20th century interacted with other fields of inquiry. The idea that art is autonomous - accountable only to itself - was core to various conceptions of what truly modern art should be, dominating accounts as varied as those of Theodor Adorno and Clement Greenberg. Nevertheless, artists often drew inspiration from other disciplines to make their work: be it by considering mathematical theories to create geometric abstraction or by drawing on philosophy and sociology to make conceptual work. Considering art movements from both before and after the Second World War, our speakers discuss how this openness to new ideas influenced artistic ingenuity, as well as where it leaves art today."
http://rubinoffsculpturepark.org/index.php
Academic Careers in Anthropology: Perspectives on/from the UK, US, and Germany. 20 June 2017 at CARMAH
Today, I organised a forum for both Free University and Humboldt University doctoral students and early career researchers of anthropology to ask questions and discuss careers in anthropology with Prof Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Anthropology, Rutgers, US), Prof Hansjörg Dilger (Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin), Prof Sharon Macdonald (CARMAH/IfEE, HU), Prof Jörg Niewöhner (IfEE, HU). It was great fun and very insightful. We'll run another one for students some time soon.
Today, I organised a forum for both Free University and Humboldt University doctoral students and early career researchers of anthropology to ask questions and discuss careers in anthropology with Prof Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Anthropology, Rutgers, US), Prof Hansjörg Dilger (Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin), Prof Sharon Macdonald (CARMAH/IfEE, HU), Prof Jörg Niewöhner (IfEE, HU). It was great fun and very insightful. We'll run another one for students some time soon.
Ethnografische Annäherungen an Theater und kuratorische Arbeit, Vortrag an der Universität Hildesheim, 14. Juni 2017
Auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Annemarie Matzke und Prof. Dr. Matthias Rebstock halte ich am 14. Juni 2017 um 18.00h einen Vortrag mit dem Titel 'Anthropologisch denken/arbeiten/schreiben in/mit/durch die Kunst: Ethnografische Annäherungen an Theater und kuratorische Arbeit' im Rahmen des Masterseminars 'Strategien und Funktionen der Inszenierung: Kunst und Forschung' (SoSe 2017).
Auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. Annemarie Matzke und Prof. Dr. Matthias Rebstock halte ich am 14. Juni 2017 um 18.00h einen Vortrag mit dem Titel 'Anthropologisch denken/arbeiten/schreiben in/mit/durch die Kunst: Ethnografische Annäherungen an Theater und kuratorische Arbeit' im Rahmen des Masterseminars 'Strategien und Funktionen der Inszenierung: Kunst und Forschung' (SoSe 2017).
'The School of Everything', Presentation at Aneducation Programme at documenta(14), Kassel/Athens (11-13 June 2017)
Next weekend, I will be participating in a three-day project aiming to establish new curricula through transdisciplinary and decanonising thoughts from art, anthropology, academia etc. The project, conceptualised by Joulia Strauss (Avtonomia Akadimia) and curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis (AthenSYN), will take place at the Kulturbahnhof of Kunsthochshule Kassel from 11-13 June 2017. I will be presenting a paper entitled 'Anthropology and/as the Study of Everything: Paradoxes, Potentials, and Pitfalls' on Sunday 11 June. You can find more information via the link below and this programme.
http://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/22574/the-school-of-everything
Next weekend, I will be participating in a three-day project aiming to establish new curricula through transdisciplinary and decanonising thoughts from art, anthropology, academia etc. The project, conceptualised by Joulia Strauss (Avtonomia Akadimia) and curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis (AthenSYN), will take place at the Kulturbahnhof of Kunsthochshule Kassel from 11-13 June 2017. I will be presenting a paper entitled 'Anthropology and/as the Study of Everything: Paradoxes, Potentials, and Pitfalls' on Sunday 11 June. You can find more information via the link below and this programme.
http://www.documenta14.de/en/calendar/22574/the-school-of-everything
'The Stranger in Me' - Book of conversations with Roberto Ciulli (5 June 2017)
On Monday, 5 June 2017, we filmed a three-hour long interview with renowned Italian-born theatre director Roberto Ciulli on migration, alterity, and acting. It will form part of a forthcoming book with Alexander Verlag on the director, based on conversations between him and me, which focuses on the anthropological aspects of theatre.
On Monday, 5 June 2017, we filmed a three-hour long interview with renowned Italian-born theatre director Roberto Ciulli on migration, alterity, and acting. It will form part of a forthcoming book with Alexander Verlag on the director, based on conversations between him and me, which focuses on the anthropological aspects of theatre.
Photograph taken by Dijana Brnic at Ciulli's office in the Theater an der Ruhr, 5.6.2017
PREMIERE: ICH HIELT IN MEINEN ARMEN DAS UNMÖGLICHE, 3. Juni 2017, Mülheim an der Ruhr/Theater an der Ruhr
This Saturday, the fifth year of incredible performances and installations of the research, art, and theatre project RUHRORTER at the Theater an der Ruhr is premiering in Mülheim an der Ruhr with the performance ICH HIELT IN MEINEN ARMEN DAS UNMÖGLICHE (as well as another legendary party) in the abandoned postindustrial complex on Ruhrorterstraße. I've learned so much accompanying the project since it's inception in late 2012/2013 and it's been eye-opening to engage with its critique of how the problematic aspects of Germany's patronising 'Welcome Culture' seep into documentary and authenticating applied theatre projects. Come along to the other performances and installation views, all on the project's website.
http://www.ruhrorter.com/projekte.html
This Saturday, the fifth year of incredible performances and installations of the research, art, and theatre project RUHRORTER at the Theater an der Ruhr is premiering in Mülheim an der Ruhr with the performance ICH HIELT IN MEINEN ARMEN DAS UNMÖGLICHE (as well as another legendary party) in the abandoned postindustrial complex on Ruhrorterstraße. I've learned so much accompanying the project since it's inception in late 2012/2013 and it's been eye-opening to engage with its critique of how the problematic aspects of Germany's patronising 'Welcome Culture' seep into documentary and authenticating applied theatre projects. Come along to the other performances and installation views, all on the project's website.
http://www.ruhrorter.com/projekte.html
Book launch, artist talk, panel discussion with Mario Rizzi, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Charlotte Bank, Souad Abbas, and Jonas Tinius. BARE LIVES - Galerie Wedding 1 June 2017
Within the context of the exhibition BARE LIVES by Mario Rizzi within the frame of UP (Unsustainable Privileges), curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (28. April – 10. Juni 2017).
During this artist talk and book presentation on the exhibition BARE LIVES by Mario Rizzi, we will be discussing hidden stories and consequences of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ and how they entangled individual political lives and wider geopolitics of the region. What does it mean to be an activist woman and single mother, whose story has been written out of the official narrative of the Tunisian revolution? With reference to the exhibition and book BARE LIVES (2017), we will also discuss the role of women in conflict, as refugees, and as activists and artists more generally. How does one approach the histories and presences of the Yazidi women portrayed by Mario Rizzi? What role do women play in the organization of the everyday in states of exception and camps? How do we reflect our privileges to have a place to work, to live – an everyday? How does one depict the conflicting and unsustainable privileges of refugees in permanent camps vs. sedentary urban dwellers in a city like Berlin? In what ways do poetry and art relate to social change or to mobilising solidarity among the excluded, migrants, or exiled? We welcome you all to a discussion including artistic, anthropological, and activist perspectives from Syria, the Arab diaspora, and Germany. The panelists will be discussing the ongoing exhibition BARE LIVES but also draw on content from the newly released book by the same title, which accompanies the exhibition and contains contributions by Ramy Al Asheq, Charlotte Bank, Tania Canas, Hamid Dabashi, Pia Lauro, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, and Jonas Tinius. The book is published in collaboration with Archive Books. (www.archivebooks.org)
http://galeriewedding.de/bare-lives-artist-talk/
Within the context of the exhibition BARE LIVES by Mario Rizzi within the frame of UP (Unsustainable Privileges), curated by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (28. April – 10. Juni 2017).
During this artist talk and book presentation on the exhibition BARE LIVES by Mario Rizzi, we will be discussing hidden stories and consequences of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ and how they entangled individual political lives and wider geopolitics of the region. What does it mean to be an activist woman and single mother, whose story has been written out of the official narrative of the Tunisian revolution? With reference to the exhibition and book BARE LIVES (2017), we will also discuss the role of women in conflict, as refugees, and as activists and artists more generally. How does one approach the histories and presences of the Yazidi women portrayed by Mario Rizzi? What role do women play in the organization of the everyday in states of exception and camps? How do we reflect our privileges to have a place to work, to live – an everyday? How does one depict the conflicting and unsustainable privileges of refugees in permanent camps vs. sedentary urban dwellers in a city like Berlin? In what ways do poetry and art relate to social change or to mobilising solidarity among the excluded, migrants, or exiled? We welcome you all to a discussion including artistic, anthropological, and activist perspectives from Syria, the Arab diaspora, and Germany. The panelists will be discussing the ongoing exhibition BARE LIVES but also draw on content from the newly released book by the same title, which accompanies the exhibition and contains contributions by Ramy Al Asheq, Charlotte Bank, Tania Canas, Hamid Dabashi, Pia Lauro, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, and Jonas Tinius. The book is published in collaboration with Archive Books. (www.archivebooks.org)
http://galeriewedding.de/bare-lives-artist-talk/
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Arjun Appadurai: Corruption and Scale. SS 2017 Colloquium.
On Tuesday, 23 May 2017, we are hosting Prof Arjun Appadurai (NYU/IfEE) as part of our summer semester series MODES OF RELATING, which I jointly co-organise on behalf of CARMAH with the STS Lab. Appadurai will be speaking about CORRUPTION AND SCALE: NOTES ON INDIA AND BEYOND. All are welcome, but please do come early as seats are limited. We start at 6pm (c.t.) https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/kolloquium |
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Beobachtung und/als Methode. Perspektiven aus der Kunst und (Natur)Wissenschaft. Kolloquium, 16. Mai 2017
Tuesday, 17 May 2017 at 6pm, I am organising a seminar on OBSERVATION AND/AS METHOD with perspectives on the arts and (natural) sciences as part of our summer semester series MODES OF RELATING. Prof Jens Roselt from Hildesheim will be speaking about theatre rehearsals and mutual observation, followed by two brief inputs my Prof Jörg Niewöhner on the natural sciences and myself on theatre and the arts. We encourage lively discussion. All are welcome. The event will be in German! Room 311, Institute of European Ethnology. https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/termine/institutskolloquium-sose17-5 |
Photo taken during Anne Imhof's FAUST at Venice Biennale 2017.
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"Europas Interne Andere: Ein Gespräch mit dem Kurator und Künstler Moritz Pankok" - 4.Mai 2017 - CARMAH-Reflections Beitrag
Für unsere neue Online-Plattform "Reflections" des Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) habe ich meinen ersten Eintrag verfasst. Aufbauend auf einem Interview mit Moritz Pankok, Kurator der professionellen Galerie Kai Dikhas für zeitgenössische Kunst der Roma und Sinti und Großneffen des Malers und Bildhauers Otto Pankok, geht es darin um Fragen der Repräsentation von Minderheiten in Museen und Galerien heute sowie um die politische Rolle der Kunst als Erinnerungspraxis.
http://www.carmah.berlin/reflections/internal-others/
Für unsere neue Online-Plattform "Reflections" des Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) habe ich meinen ersten Eintrag verfasst. Aufbauend auf einem Interview mit Moritz Pankok, Kurator der professionellen Galerie Kai Dikhas für zeitgenössische Kunst der Roma und Sinti und Großneffen des Malers und Bildhauers Otto Pankok, geht es darin um Fragen der Repräsentation von Minderheiten in Museen und Galerien heute sowie um die politische Rolle der Kunst als Erinnerungspraxis.
http://www.carmah.berlin/reflections/internal-others/
Moritz Pankok in der Galerie Kai Dikhas, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Gallery Reflections Series #1 - ifa-gallery Berlin, 4 May 2017
Gallery reflections is a series of public discussions on institutions, artistic critique, and curatorial practices moderated by anthropologist Jonas Tinius. The encounters take place in the ifa-gallery as part of the annual programme, crisscrossing the overall themes and decentring the focal points of the annual programme Untie to tie: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies at IFA-Galerie Berlin
gallery reflections #1 Urban Decolonisation and Diasporic Formations
Thursday, 4 May 2017 - 7pm
http://untietotie.org
A conversation between Dr Noa Ha (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin; research fields: postcolonial urbanism, asian diasporas in European cities; Board member of "Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg"), Trang Tran Thu (Berlin Asian Film Network/Anthropologist working on Vietnamese diaspora in Berlin), Hyunsin Kim (Choreographer and Performer), and Dr Jonas Tinius (Anthropologist, CARMAH/HU Berlin).
Gallery reflections is a series of public discussions on institutions, artistic critique, and curatorial practices moderated by anthropologist Jonas Tinius. The encounters take place in the ifa-gallery as part of the annual programme, crisscrossing the overall themes and decentring the focal points of the annual programme Untie to tie: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies at IFA-Galerie Berlin
gallery reflections #1 Urban Decolonisation and Diasporic Formations
Thursday, 4 May 2017 - 7pm
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A conversation between Dr Noa Ha (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin; research fields: postcolonial urbanism, asian diasporas in European cities; Board member of "Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg"), Trang Tran Thu (Berlin Asian Film Network/Anthropologist working on Vietnamese diaspora in Berlin), Hyunsin Kim (Choreographer and Performer), and Dr Jonas Tinius (Anthropologist, CARMAH/HU Berlin).
Gabby Miller, a Vietnamese-American artist, travelled on a cargo containership across the pacific to Vietnam. Her first solo-ehibition took place in late 2015 in Hanoi, entitled CROSSING/ĐI XUYÊN. The photograph is taken from that exhibition, in which Gabby engages with the mobility of humans, goods, and capital across the sea. Among other things, it points to the geopolitical and economic dynamics which inform and mark perspectives and biographies of artists of colour.
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Department Seminar Series,
Dept. of European Ethnology Berlin For this year's summer semester (April-July 2017), I am organising the so-called Institutskolloquium or Department Seminar Series with Dr Martina Klausner at the Department of European Ethnology. The series attends to methodologies in and for a contemporary anthropology. While “modes of relating” may have always been central for anthropological research – we might think about classic kinship analyses, the gift, or the Melanesian ‘dividual’ –, we would like to ask how emergent phenomena of the contemporary ask for specific forms of relating. What methodologies have been developed in such an anthropology concerned with ‘the contemporary’, and which ones are emerging? 18.04.17: Introduction: Modes of Relating Martina Klausner, Sharon Macdonald, Jörg Niewöhner, Jonas Tinius Full programme and poster online here |
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Opening, Ruhrorter Salon, 15 April 2017, Ringlokschuppen Mülheim
We're very excited to launch the Ruhrorter Salon, a new series of talks with migrant and refugee artists, activists, scholars or those working closely on the field. They are part of the 2017 Ruhrorter project and will be taking place in various locations in the postindustrial urban landscape in the Ruhr Valley.
Im nunmehr fünften Jahr erarbeitet RUHRORTER Theater- und Kunstprojekte mit Geflüchteten in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Unter dem Titel ‚Die Figur des Geflüchteten: Überlegungen zur politischen Rolle von Flucht und Fiktion’ stellen Dr. Jonas Tinius (Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) und Alexander Weinstock (Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Universität zu Köln) am 15.04.2017 die Programmatik und Arbeitsweise von RUHRORTER vor. Sie sprechen über die Rolle von Bildern und die Verantwortung von Kunst und Theater, den spezifischen Umgang mit eigenen und fremden Geschichten, die auf die Bühne gebracht werden und das damit verbundene politische Ziel von RUHRORTER: Stereotypen und Stigmatisierungen mit den Mitteln der Kunst entgegenzuwirken.
Die Veranstaltung ist der Auftakt zum RUHRORTER SALON, einer Reihe von Vorträgen, Präsentationen und Diskussionsrunden, die Aspekte der Arbeit von RUHRORTER aufgreift. Im Dialog mit geflohenen und in Deutschland lebenden KünstlerInnen, AktivistInnen und WissenschaftlerInnen, werden an verschiedenen Orten im städtischen Raum Themen wie Flucht und Migration, Kunst und politische Arbeit, Bürokratie und Asylrecht verhandelt und diskutiert. Der Eintritt zu allen Veranstaltungen ist frei und versteht sich als Einladung an ein breites Publikum, mit RUHRORTER und den eingeladenen Gästen in den Dialog zu treten und gemeinsam die künstlerische Arbeit mit Geflüchteten Menschen kritisch zu diskutieren.
15.04.2017 - 19:30 Uhr
Ort: dezentrale, Leineweberstr. 15-17, Mülheim an der Ruhr
More on here soon: www.ruhrorter.com
We're very excited to launch the Ruhrorter Salon, a new series of talks with migrant and refugee artists, activists, scholars or those working closely on the field. They are part of the 2017 Ruhrorter project and will be taking place in various locations in the postindustrial urban landscape in the Ruhr Valley.
Im nunmehr fünften Jahr erarbeitet RUHRORTER Theater- und Kunstprojekte mit Geflüchteten in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Unter dem Titel ‚Die Figur des Geflüchteten: Überlegungen zur politischen Rolle von Flucht und Fiktion’ stellen Dr. Jonas Tinius (Europäische Ethnologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) und Alexander Weinstock (Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Universität zu Köln) am 15.04.2017 die Programmatik und Arbeitsweise von RUHRORTER vor. Sie sprechen über die Rolle von Bildern und die Verantwortung von Kunst und Theater, den spezifischen Umgang mit eigenen und fremden Geschichten, die auf die Bühne gebracht werden und das damit verbundene politische Ziel von RUHRORTER: Stereotypen und Stigmatisierungen mit den Mitteln der Kunst entgegenzuwirken.
Die Veranstaltung ist der Auftakt zum RUHRORTER SALON, einer Reihe von Vorträgen, Präsentationen und Diskussionsrunden, die Aspekte der Arbeit von RUHRORTER aufgreift. Im Dialog mit geflohenen und in Deutschland lebenden KünstlerInnen, AktivistInnen und WissenschaftlerInnen, werden an verschiedenen Orten im städtischen Raum Themen wie Flucht und Migration, Kunst und politische Arbeit, Bürokratie und Asylrecht verhandelt und diskutiert. Der Eintritt zu allen Veranstaltungen ist frei und versteht sich als Einladung an ein breites Publikum, mit RUHRORTER und den eingeladenen Gästen in den Dialog zu treten und gemeinsam die künstlerische Arbeit mit Geflüchteten Menschen kritisch zu diskutieren.
15.04.2017 - 19:30 Uhr
Ort: dezentrale, Leineweberstr. 15-17, Mülheim an der Ruhr
More on here soon: www.ruhrorter.com
Social Anthropology Department Seminar at St Andrews, Scotland
On 13 April 2017, I will be giving the Department Seminar in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, entitled 'An Anthropology of (German) Theatre: Artistic Institutions as Ethical Traditions' and I will be discussing my doctoral research and the book project following from it. From 11-1, Social Anthropology Seminar Room (United Colleges Room 50).
In this talk, I explore two possibilities of thinking about traditions, based on ethnographic fieldwork with a contemporary public German theatre. Recognised by the UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage, German public theatres constitute a centuries-old infrastructure that has undergone many transformations during the country’s turbulent modern history. Romantic, nationalist, and socialist notions of self-formation (Bildung) through art have not only influenced the canon of German dramatic literature and the modern Humboldtian notion of education; they have also provided the backbone for a German theatre tradition, which regards both the practice and the institution of theatre as a mode for and space of political self-cultivation. I examine how this ‘national’ tradition has influenced the emergence of a set of artistic values common in German public theatre revolving around autonomy, the individual, and self-cultivation. Based on my ethnographic study of an artist-run municipal theatre in the post-industrial Ruhr Valley, however, I also explore to what extent it is both possible and necessary to conceive of an individual institution as an ethical tradition. In doing so, I hope to shed light on anthropological approaches to contemporary Germany, theatre and artistic institutions, as well as issues of scale in studying traditions between historical value and ethnographic context.
Link to event: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/events/?eventid=814
On 13 April 2017, I will be giving the Department Seminar in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, entitled 'An Anthropology of (German) Theatre: Artistic Institutions as Ethical Traditions' and I will be discussing my doctoral research and the book project following from it. From 11-1, Social Anthropology Seminar Room (United Colleges Room 50).
In this talk, I explore two possibilities of thinking about traditions, based on ethnographic fieldwork with a contemporary public German theatre. Recognised by the UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage, German public theatres constitute a centuries-old infrastructure that has undergone many transformations during the country’s turbulent modern history. Romantic, nationalist, and socialist notions of self-formation (Bildung) through art have not only influenced the canon of German dramatic literature and the modern Humboldtian notion of education; they have also provided the backbone for a German theatre tradition, which regards both the practice and the institution of theatre as a mode for and space of political self-cultivation. I examine how this ‘national’ tradition has influenced the emergence of a set of artistic values common in German public theatre revolving around autonomy, the individual, and self-cultivation. Based on my ethnographic study of an artist-run municipal theatre in the post-industrial Ruhr Valley, however, I also explore to what extent it is both possible and necessary to conceive of an individual institution as an ethical tradition. In doing so, I hope to shed light on anthropological approaches to contemporary Germany, theatre and artistic institutions, as well as issues of scale in studying traditions between historical value and ethnographic context.
Link to event: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/events/?eventid=814
Design Anthropology Workshop at Harvard University (April 2017)
On 4 April 2017, I'll be presenting a paper entitled 'BACK TO THE FUTURE HERITAGE: Critical Notes on Anthropology, Design, and Urban Space' at this exciting workshop at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University: 'Design Anthropology: Landscapes and Cities', organised by Prof Steve Caton and Gareth Doherty (April 3-4, 2017)
Participants: George Marcus, Steve Caton, Setha Low, Moises Lino e Silva, Jonas Tinius, Thomas Binder, Galen Cranz, Dana Cuff, Namita Dharia, Gareth Doherty, Albena Yaneva and others
"While most publications on design anthropology have been at the scale of objects, this gathering focuses on landscape architectural and urban planning processes and the challenges of incorporating anthropological methods at the larger scale."
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dsgn_anthro
On 4 April 2017, I'll be presenting a paper entitled 'BACK TO THE FUTURE HERITAGE: Critical Notes on Anthropology, Design, and Urban Space' at this exciting workshop at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University: 'Design Anthropology: Landscapes and Cities', organised by Prof Steve Caton and Gareth Doherty (April 3-4, 2017)
Participants: George Marcus, Steve Caton, Setha Low, Moises Lino e Silva, Jonas Tinius, Thomas Binder, Galen Cranz, Dana Cuff, Namita Dharia, Gareth Doherty, Albena Yaneva and others
"While most publications on design anthropology have been at the scale of objects, this gathering focuses on landscape architectural and urban planning processes and the challenges of incorporating anthropological methods at the larger scale."
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dsgn_anthro
Puzzling Homes & Momentary Dwellers: Poster and Presentation at SIEF 2017 Congress in Göttingen, Germany (26-30 March 2017)
At the 13th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), "Ways of Dwelling, Crisis – Craft – Creativity" (26-30 March 2016), I will be presenting a paper entitled "Momentary dwellers: experimental art-ethnography collaborations" in a panel on "Experimentation with methods in critical affective research (Panel Body07). Together with my CARMAH colleagues from TRACES, artist Tal Adler and art historian Anna Szöke, I will also be presenting a poster entitled "Puzzling Homes: Narrating European Crisis and Future Heritage" on Monday and Tuesday.
At the 13th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), "Ways of Dwelling, Crisis – Craft – Creativity" (26-30 March 2016), I will be presenting a paper entitled "Momentary dwellers: experimental art-ethnography collaborations" in a panel on "Experimentation with methods in critical affective research (Panel Body07). Together with my CARMAH colleagues from TRACES, artist Tal Adler and art historian Anna Szöke, I will also be presenting a poster entitled "Puzzling Homes: Narrating European Crisis and Future Heritage" on Monday and Tuesday.
FUTURE PERFECT: A Dialogue on Mobility, Precarity & Temporality (Ghent, 19 March 17)
Together with performing artist Wanja van Suntum (cobratheater.cobra/Ruhrorter), I will be staging a dialogue on the potentials and pitfalls of mobility, precarity and the strange temporality of project proposals in the free performing arts scene in Germany. This is made possible thanks to an invitation by the Studies in Performing Arts and Media programme at Ghent University, in collaboration with the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the arts centre campo. DANCE NOW: Work with(out) Borders is a two-day conference at CAMPO Nieuwpoort (Ghent, Belgium) on (boundaryless) work in the contemporary dance profession, its causes, contexts and (aesthetic) repercussions. Confirmed lectures by scholars from dance and performance studies, anthropology and sociology as well as artist talks: Mark Franko (Temple University), Gabriele Klein (Universität Hamburg), Gabriele Brandstetter (Freie Universität Berlin), Anusha Kedhar (Colorado College), Helen Thomas (Trinity Laban College), Rudi Laermans (KU Leuven), Dunja Njaradi (University of The Arts Belgrade), Jonas Tinius (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Wanja van Suntum (performing artist), Igor Koruga (performing artist) and Delphine Hesters (Flanders Arts Institute)
Full program and more info here: http://www.ugent.be/lw/kunstwetenschappen/en/research-groups/spam/conferences/dance-now.htm
Together with performing artist Wanja van Suntum (cobratheater.cobra/Ruhrorter), I will be staging a dialogue on the potentials and pitfalls of mobility, precarity and the strange temporality of project proposals in the free performing arts scene in Germany. This is made possible thanks to an invitation by the Studies in Performing Arts and Media programme at Ghent University, in collaboration with the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the arts centre campo. DANCE NOW: Work with(out) Borders is a two-day conference at CAMPO Nieuwpoort (Ghent, Belgium) on (boundaryless) work in the contemporary dance profession, its causes, contexts and (aesthetic) repercussions. Confirmed lectures by scholars from dance and performance studies, anthropology and sociology as well as artist talks: Mark Franko (Temple University), Gabriele Klein (Universität Hamburg), Gabriele Brandstetter (Freie Universität Berlin), Anusha Kedhar (Colorado College), Helen Thomas (Trinity Laban College), Rudi Laermans (KU Leuven), Dunja Njaradi (University of The Arts Belgrade), Jonas Tinius (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Wanja van Suntum (performing artist), Igor Koruga (performing artist) and Delphine Hesters (Flanders Arts Institute)
Full program and more info here: http://www.ugent.be/lw/kunstwetenschappen/en/research-groups/spam/conferences/dance-now.htm
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DESIGN, FAILURE AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF RISK - Video lecture Arjun Appadurai
For those unable to make it to our event in Berlin on 10 January 2017, you can rewatch this talk by Professor Arjun Appadurai, in conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Jonas Tinius in the SAVVY Contemporary media archive. https://vimeo.com/205361947 |
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Benefiz-Vortrag: 'Die Figur des Geflüchteten' (Köln, 21.2.2017)
Am 21.02.2017 um 19h findet die Gemälde-Auktion des Projektes "Die Sprache der Bilder. Flucht in Kunst und Medien" im FORUM Volkshochschule im Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum statt. Das Gemälde des Künstlers Gara Rasul aus der Serie "Menschenbild in Blau" wird zum Startgebot von 200 Euro aufgerufen. Aus den Einnahmen werden kreative Kurse für Geflüchtete mit Studierenden der Universität zu Köln finanziert. Die Auktion folgt auf den letzten Vortrag der dazugehörigen Vortragsreihe von Dr. Jonas Tinius (HU Berlin) und Alexander Weinstock (Universität zu Köln) über „Die Figur des Geflüchteten - Perspektiven des nicht-dokumentarischen Theaters am Beispiel von Ruhrorter“. Alle Vortragenden verzichten im Zuge dieses Benefizprojektes auf ihr Honorar. http://tinyurl.com/zpwly4z |
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Book launch: Applied Theatre (Theater der Zeit), 2017
On 9 February 2017, Theater der Zeit launches a new edited collection on new positions and framings of the aesthetics applied theatre today. This is the second publication coming out of Prof. Matthias Warstat's project The Aesthetics of Applied Theatre (ERC-funded) at the FU Berlin, and I am extremely pleased to have contributed a chapter on the institutional framing and processes of subject formation in critical political theatre with refugees today. This chapter brings together insight into the ethnography of artistic institutions and recent developments in the anthropology of ethics with contemporary theatre productions in Germany. Tinius, Jonas. 2017 ‘Anthropologische Beobachtungen zu künstlerischer Subjektivierung und institutioneller Reflexivität: Das Theaterprojekt Ruhrorter mit Geflüchteten am Theater an der Ruhr’, in: Matthias Warstat et al. 2017. Applied Theatre – Frames and Positions. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, S. 205–235. Order the book and find more information here: http://www.theaterderzeit.de/buch/applied_theatre/ |
Ethnography as Method in Theatre Studies? (Talk, LMU Munich)
This coming weekend (3-4 February 2017), I will be speaking at Prof Chris Balme's conference on current methods in theatre studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich. The topic of my talk is the role ethnography has played in approaching theatre and performance, and why it has not yet become a central way to reconnect theatre studies and post-performance studies anthropology. As part of this talk, I will be arguing that ethnography functions less as a "method" than as a "series of commitments" (D Miller), and how this can reinvigorate this interdisciplinary dialogue. Collected papers will be published in a special issue of Forum Modernes Theater.
This coming weekend (3-4 February 2017), I will be speaking at Prof Chris Balme's conference on current methods in theatre studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Munich. The topic of my talk is the role ethnography has played in approaching theatre and performance, and why it has not yet become a central way to reconnect theatre studies and post-performance studies anthropology. As part of this talk, I will be arguing that ethnography functions less as a "method" than as a "series of commitments" (D Miller), and how this can reinvigorate this interdisciplinary dialogue. Collected papers will be published in a special issue of Forum Modernes Theater.
Editorial against Trump in Performance Philosophy Journal 2017
Vol 2.2 (2017) of the journal Performance Philosophy has now been published online and includes an amazing performative Editorial composed of replies to an open call for 1 sentence responses to the inauguration of T****. I contributed to it with a sentence from Samuel Beckett. Read the entire piece here.
Vol 2.2 (2017) of the journal Performance Philosophy has now been published online and includes an amazing performative Editorial composed of replies to an open call for 1 sentence responses to the inauguration of T****. I contributed to it with a sentence from Samuel Beckett. Read the entire piece here.
Call for Applications: 2 PhD studentships at CARMAH, HU Berlin
The Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) invites applications for 2 three-year PhD studentships, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, starting from May 2017 or as soon as possible hereafter. The Deadline for both is 19 February 2017. For one of these two studentships (Heritage and New Media), the successful candidate will conduct research on heritage and new media, especially among Turkish and/or Vietnamese-speaking individuals and groups in Berlin. For the other studentship (Science and Citizenship), the successful candidate will conduct research in an area that intersects between the research project of Sharon Macdonald's Alexander von Humboldt professorship (Making Differences in Berlin) and the interests of the Museum of Natural History, Berlin. For more information on the posts and the application process, please visit our website here.
The Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) invites applications for 2 three-year PhD studentships, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, starting from May 2017 or as soon as possible hereafter. The Deadline for both is 19 February 2017. For one of these two studentships (Heritage and New Media), the successful candidate will conduct research on heritage and new media, especially among Turkish and/or Vietnamese-speaking individuals and groups in Berlin. For the other studentship (Science and Citizenship), the successful candidate will conduct research in an area that intersects between the research project of Sharon Macdonald's Alexander von Humboldt professorship (Making Differences in Berlin) and the interests of the Museum of Natural History, Berlin. For more information on the posts and the application process, please visit our website here.
Call for Proposals: World Café Section of 2017 CARMAH Conference
The Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) invites early-stage career researchers to submit proposals for a World Café table by 15 February 2017. The conference is taking place at the Department of European Ethnology of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 26-28 July 2017. Please consult our website for more information about the call and the application forms here.
The Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) invites early-stage career researchers to submit proposals for a World Café table by 15 February 2017. The conference is taking place at the Department of European Ethnology of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from 26-28 July 2017. Please consult our website for more information about the call and the application forms here.
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DESIGN, FAILURE AND THE GLOBALIZATION OF RISK
A Talk by Arjun Appadurai, followed by a conversation with anthropologist Jonas Tinius (HU Berlin) and curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (documenta/SAVVY Contemporary). SAVVY Contemporary, Plantagenstraße 31, Berlin-Wedding // 10 January 2017, 7pm
What is the role of promises and trust in a postfactual age? How are emerging technologies tied up to the political and economic crises of the last years? What can we learn from the role of risk-taking and failure for our political futures – and what's language got to do with it all? Professor Arjun Appadurai, one of the world's leading theorists of globalisation and cultural economies, will be discussing crises, economies, and political language with S A V V Y Contemporary's director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and anthropologist Jonas Tinius (HU Berlin). Appadurai is author of seminal texts, including Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996), editor of The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (1986), and has been at the forefront of theorizing the relation between cultural creativity, global economies, and political emergence. This lecture will explore the financial crises of the last few decades in the advanced economies and beyond to look at how failure is part of the logic of design and risk in the world of emerging technologies in finance and beyond. This presentation is part of an ongoing research project on failure, which explores how failure is a globally variable and circulating idea which can reveal far more than the study of success. The event is a cooperation between SAVVY Contemporary, the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), and the Anthropologies of Art Network (A/A).
A Talk by Arjun Appadurai, followed by a conversation with anthropologist Jonas Tinius (HU Berlin) and curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (documenta/SAVVY Contemporary). SAVVY Contemporary, Plantagenstraße 31, Berlin-Wedding // 10 January 2017, 7pm
What is the role of promises and trust in a postfactual age? How are emerging technologies tied up to the political and economic crises of the last years? What can we learn from the role of risk-taking and failure for our political futures – and what's language got to do with it all? Professor Arjun Appadurai, one of the world's leading theorists of globalisation and cultural economies, will be discussing crises, economies, and political language with S A V V Y Contemporary's director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and anthropologist Jonas Tinius (HU Berlin). Appadurai is author of seminal texts, including Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996), editor of The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (1986), and has been at the forefront of theorizing the relation between cultural creativity, global economies, and political emergence. This lecture will explore the financial crises of the last few decades in the advanced economies and beyond to look at how failure is part of the logic of design and risk in the world of emerging technologies in finance and beyond. This presentation is part of an ongoing research project on failure, which explores how failure is a globally variable and circulating idea which can reveal far more than the study of success. The event is a cooperation between SAVVY Contemporary, the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), and the Anthropologies of Art Network (A/A).
New website launched: Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH)
If you're wondering what I've been up to since moving to Berlin in July 2016, take a look at this great new site we've just launched for our Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), where I'm delighted to work on some exciting projects with a set of great colleagues and many inspiring interlocutors in Berlin's galleries and art spaces.
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If you're wondering what I've been up to since moving to Berlin in July 2016, take a look at this great new site we've just launched for our Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), where I'm delighted to work on some exciting projects with a set of great colleagues and many inspiring interlocutors in Berlin's galleries and art spaces.
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Theatre and Statelessness: New Article in Critical Stages Journal
An exciting new special issue of the journal Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques has just been released on Theatre and Statelessness, edited by Steve Wilmer and Azadeh Sharifi. My article in the journal reflects on continuities and ruptures in how theatre engages with notions of otherness in Germany, focusing on negotiations of authenticity and alterity at the Theater an der Ruhr and the refugee project RUHRORTER. 'Authenticity and Otherness: Reflecting Statelessness in German Postmigrant Theatre' (14/2016) http://www.critical-stages.org/14/ |
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Anthropologie, Ethnografie und Kuratieren (HU Berlin, 13.12.2016)
Kuratieren gilt als eine der zentralen Museumspraktiken, herkömmlich bezogen auf die Auswahl und Anordnung von Objekten in Ausstellungen. Gegenwärtig jedoch erfährt der Begriff eine Entgrenzung und migriert in andere Felder. So wird unter anderem Kuratieren als Ergänzung bzw. auch als Ersatz ethnografischer Wissensproduktion thematisiert („anthropologist-as-curator"). Doch dabei wird die Praxis auch kritisiert: Leiden wir an einer Kuratitis? Ist wirklich alles und jedes kuratierbar? Obgleich Kuratieren und Ethnografieren häufig in einem Atemzug genannt werden, bilden ethnografische Untersuchungen kuratorischer Wissensproduktionen eine Forschungslücke.
Im Museumslabor haben wir dies zum Anlass genommen, uns mit dem Verhältnis zwischen den beiden Praktiken näher auseinanderzusetzen. In diesem Kolloquium gehen wir mit Beispielen aus unseren aktuellen Forschungen folgenden Fragen nach: Welches Erkenntnispotenzial besitzen Ethnografien von kuratorischen Prozessen?
Wie können kuratorische Praktiken mittels ethnografischer Methoden reflexiv erweitert werden? Inwiefern kann Kuratieren als ethnografische Methode verstanden werden? Welche Möglichkeiten eröffnen sich, was gerät aus dem Blick? Mit Beiträgen von Christine Gerbich, Anna Schäffler, Franka Schneider, Jonas Tinius und Margareta von Oswald.
Mehr dazu auf der Website des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie der HU Berlin hier.
Kuratieren gilt als eine der zentralen Museumspraktiken, herkömmlich bezogen auf die Auswahl und Anordnung von Objekten in Ausstellungen. Gegenwärtig jedoch erfährt der Begriff eine Entgrenzung und migriert in andere Felder. So wird unter anderem Kuratieren als Ergänzung bzw. auch als Ersatz ethnografischer Wissensproduktion thematisiert („anthropologist-as-curator"). Doch dabei wird die Praxis auch kritisiert: Leiden wir an einer Kuratitis? Ist wirklich alles und jedes kuratierbar? Obgleich Kuratieren und Ethnografieren häufig in einem Atemzug genannt werden, bilden ethnografische Untersuchungen kuratorischer Wissensproduktionen eine Forschungslücke.
Im Museumslabor haben wir dies zum Anlass genommen, uns mit dem Verhältnis zwischen den beiden Praktiken näher auseinanderzusetzen. In diesem Kolloquium gehen wir mit Beispielen aus unseren aktuellen Forschungen folgenden Fragen nach: Welches Erkenntnispotenzial besitzen Ethnografien von kuratorischen Prozessen?
Wie können kuratorische Praktiken mittels ethnografischer Methoden reflexiv erweitert werden? Inwiefern kann Kuratieren als ethnografische Methode verstanden werden? Welche Möglichkeiten eröffnen sich, was gerät aus dem Blick? Mit Beiträgen von Christine Gerbich, Anna Schäffler, Franka Schneider, Jonas Tinius und Margareta von Oswald.
Mehr dazu auf der Website des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie der HU Berlin hier.
Heritage and the Politics of Recognition, Berlin 7 December 2016
My current host, the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) invites you to an exciting event in Berlin on 7 December 2016, 4-7pm at the Department of European Ethnology, Möhrenstraße 40/41, 10117 Berlin, Room 408.
Heritage and the Politics of Recognition. Recognition has become a key concept in critical heritage debates. But what does this term offer, in particular in relation to the city? Do cities have a duty to try to give recognition to diverse - all - communities via heritage? How can diverse heritage be 'gathered' and 'displayed'? Should this be only at the initiative of the people themselves, for themselves? How much does it matter if a city’s inhabitants do not identify with the place where the heritage will be saved/displayed?
The opening lecture by Prof Laurajane Smith (ANU) will be followed by talks by Gareth Millington (Department of Sociology, University of York) and David Huyssen (Department of History, University of York). Following a wine reception there will be a panel discussion also with Claudia Gemmeke (Director Department Forum, Stadtmuseum Berlin), Noa Ha (Centre for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin), and Mirjam Brusius (Faculty of History, Oxford University).
My current host, the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) invites you to an exciting event in Berlin on 7 December 2016, 4-7pm at the Department of European Ethnology, Möhrenstraße 40/41, 10117 Berlin, Room 408.
Heritage and the Politics of Recognition. Recognition has become a key concept in critical heritage debates. But what does this term offer, in particular in relation to the city? Do cities have a duty to try to give recognition to diverse - all - communities via heritage? How can diverse heritage be 'gathered' and 'displayed'? Should this be only at the initiative of the people themselves, for themselves? How much does it matter if a city’s inhabitants do not identify with the place where the heritage will be saved/displayed?
The opening lecture by Prof Laurajane Smith (ANU) will be followed by talks by Gareth Millington (Department of Sociology, University of York) and David Huyssen (Department of History, University of York). Following a wine reception there will be a panel discussion also with Claudia Gemmeke (Director Department Forum, Stadtmuseum Berlin), Noa Ha (Centre for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin), and Mirjam Brusius (Faculty of History, Oxford University).
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RAI Reviewer Meets Reviewed Seminar at the British Museum, London (UK)
On 17 November 2016, Roger Sansi (Goldsmiths) and I discussed his book Art, Anthropology and the Gift (2015, Bloomsbury) and my review of it in the JRAI. The event took place in the Anthropology Library of the British Museum, London (UK). A transcribed conversation will soon be available. Here's a link to the book, my review, and a conversation between Roger Sansi and Marilyn Strathern that I facilitated as part of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network seminar series I co-convened at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities in Cambridge. |
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Institutskolloquium (Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, HU Berlin)
Dienstag, 15.11.2016, 18.00-20.00, Raum 311
Migration und Theater. Einige Beobachtungen zu reflexiven, künstlerischen Institutionen
Dr. Jonas Tinius (CARMaH) im Dialog mit dem Labor Migration (Regina Römhild und Manuel Liebig)
Aufbauend auf mehrjähriger Forschung an und mit öffentlichen Theaterinstitutionen und -projekten zu Geflüchteten im Ruhrgebiet und Berlin beschreibt dieser Vortrag einige Ansätze und Perspektiven auf kritische künstlerische Institutionen und deren reflexive Rolle in der post-migrantischen Gesellschaft. Im Dialog mit dem Labor Migration werden wir anschließend einige vergleichende Beobachtungen zwischen künstlerisch-politischen Ansätzen im Bereich Theater zur Diskussion stellen, die auch Fragen zu methodischer Zusammenarbeit, institutioneller Ethnografie und künstlerischer Forschung problematisieren.
https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/kolloquium/poster-ik-ws16-17-ifee.pdf
Dienstag, 15.11.2016, 18.00-20.00, Raum 311
Migration und Theater. Einige Beobachtungen zu reflexiven, künstlerischen Institutionen
Dr. Jonas Tinius (CARMaH) im Dialog mit dem Labor Migration (Regina Römhild und Manuel Liebig)
Aufbauend auf mehrjähriger Forschung an und mit öffentlichen Theaterinstitutionen und -projekten zu Geflüchteten im Ruhrgebiet und Berlin beschreibt dieser Vortrag einige Ansätze und Perspektiven auf kritische künstlerische Institutionen und deren reflexive Rolle in der post-migrantischen Gesellschaft. Im Dialog mit dem Labor Migration werden wir anschließend einige vergleichende Beobachtungen zwischen künstlerisch-politischen Ansätzen im Bereich Theater zur Diskussion stellen, die auch Fragen zu methodischer Zusammenarbeit, institutioneller Ethnografie und künstlerischer Forschung problematisieren.
https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/kolloquium/poster-ik-ws16-17-ifee.pdf
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JRAI Review of our book 'Anthropology, Theatre and Development' (Palgrave, 2015)
Check out the latest issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Volume 22, Issue 4) for a review of our edited collection Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance (Palgrave, 2015). Or click here for a copy of the pdf: REVIEW |
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Art-Ethnography Collaborations//new research site
I have been accompanying the refugee theatre and arts initiative RUHRORTER for the past three years, documenting its site-specific installations and rehearsal practices. There is now a site on the project dedicated to collaborative forms of research with talks and publications (click on LINK/PDF). Get in touch if you know of similar initiatives that we could link up.
http://www.ruhrorter.com/research.html
I have been accompanying the refugee theatre and arts initiative RUHRORTER for the past three years, documenting its site-specific installations and rehearsal practices. There is now a site on the project dedicated to collaborative forms of research with talks and publications (click on LINK/PDF). Get in touch if you know of similar initiatives that we could link up.
http://www.ruhrorter.com/research.html
Theaterarbeit mit Geflüchteten. Vortrag auf der 30. Bundestagung für Theaterpädagogik
Am nächsten Sonntag (30.10.2016) werden Wanja van Suntum (cobratheater.cobra) und ich eine performance lecture über das Theater- und Kunstprojekt mit Geflüchteten RUHRORTER auf der 30. Bundestagung für Theaterpädagogik in Eberswalde halten. Die Tagung widmet sich dem Thema "Theaterarbeit mit Geflüchteten" und findet vom 28.10.-30.10.2016 statt.
www.butinfo.de/sites/default/files/downloads/tagungsflyer_30_buta_2016.pdf
Am nächsten Sonntag (30.10.2016) werden Wanja van Suntum (cobratheater.cobra) und ich eine performance lecture über das Theater- und Kunstprojekt mit Geflüchteten RUHRORTER auf der 30. Bundestagung für Theaterpädagogik in Eberswalde halten. Die Tagung widmet sich dem Thema "Theaterarbeit mit Geflüchteten" und findet vom 28.10.-30.10.2016 statt.
www.butinfo.de/sites/default/files/downloads/tagungsflyer_30_buta_2016.pdf
Mobile Welten. Zur Migration von Dingen in transkulturellen Gesellschaften, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Am Freitag (7.11.2016) werde ich einen Vortrag halten zum Thema "Vom Informanten zum Zeitgenossen: Expertise im Kontext der künstlerischen Arbeit mit Transkulturalität und Migration am Beispiel der Feldforschung mit Theater’. Mein Vortrag ist Teil eines Panels zum wichtigen Thema "Wer lernt von wem? Von Experten, die keiner fragt" und findet im Rahmen der Konferenz Das transkulturelle Klassenzimmer: Dinge umordnen, Erfahrungen übersetzen, Bedeutungen verändern. des Verbundprojektes “Mobile Welten. Zur Migration von Dingen in transkulturellen Gesellschaften” (BMBF) statt.
Die Veranstaltung ist organisiert von Dr Sophia Prinz and Roger M. Biergel und findet im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg vom 6.–7. Oktober 2016 statt. Mehr Informationen zum spannenden Programm, u.a. mit Prof Paul Basu (SOAS) hier:
www.mobile-welten.org/files/einladung_transkulturelles_klassenzimmer.pdf
Am Freitag (7.11.2016) werde ich einen Vortrag halten zum Thema "Vom Informanten zum Zeitgenossen: Expertise im Kontext der künstlerischen Arbeit mit Transkulturalität und Migration am Beispiel der Feldforschung mit Theater’. Mein Vortrag ist Teil eines Panels zum wichtigen Thema "Wer lernt von wem? Von Experten, die keiner fragt" und findet im Rahmen der Konferenz Das transkulturelle Klassenzimmer: Dinge umordnen, Erfahrungen übersetzen, Bedeutungen verändern. des Verbundprojektes “Mobile Welten. Zur Migration von Dingen in transkulturellen Gesellschaften” (BMBF) statt.
Die Veranstaltung ist organisiert von Dr Sophia Prinz and Roger M. Biergel und findet im Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg vom 6.–7. Oktober 2016 statt. Mehr Informationen zum spannenden Programm, u.a. mit Prof Paul Basu (SOAS) hier:
www.mobile-welten.org/files/einladung_transkulturelles_klassenzimmer.pdf
Ethnografisches Forschen in der Kunst (Lab, Uferstudios, Berlin)
Ich freue mich sehr, auf dem cobratheater.cobra Treffen für Wissensteilung und Forschung ein Lab zu organisieren. Thema: Ethnografisches Forschen in der Kunst. 23 und 24. September in den Uferstudios Berlin-Wedding, unterstützt von Tanzfabrik Berlin und den Uferstudios.
Hier mehr Information zu cobratheater.cobra und der Veranstaltung. Klick auf den folgenden Link zu einem Buchkapitel, dass ich zu dem Netzwerk geschrieben habe in einem Sammelband zu Prekarität und Kunst, herausgeben u.a. von Prof Pascal Gielen (Antwerpen): PDF.
http://www.cobratheatercobra.com/archiv/cobrasein-cobra/
Ich freue mich sehr, auf dem cobratheater.cobra Treffen für Wissensteilung und Forschung ein Lab zu organisieren. Thema: Ethnografisches Forschen in der Kunst. 23 und 24. September in den Uferstudios Berlin-Wedding, unterstützt von Tanzfabrik Berlin und den Uferstudios.
Hier mehr Information zu cobratheater.cobra und der Veranstaltung. Klick auf den folgenden Link zu einem Buchkapitel, dass ich zu dem Netzwerk geschrieben habe in einem Sammelband zu Prekarität und Kunst, herausgeben u.a. von Prof Pascal Gielen (Antwerpen): PDF.
http://www.cobratheatercobra.com/archiv/cobrasein-cobra/
'The charitable relation’ (Foreword)
A foreword I wrote for the exhibition catalogue 'Art as a Medium for Action', edited by Gyunel Rustamova, curated by Cinthia Willaman, has just been published with London: Langham Press. (pp.4-6).
You can read the entire catalogue here or download my foreword here or by clicking on the image.
A foreword I wrote for the exhibition catalogue 'Art as a Medium for Action', edited by Gyunel Rustamova, curated by Cinthia Willaman, has just been published with London: Langham Press. (pp.4-6).
You can read the entire catalogue here or download my foreword here or by clicking on the image.
Anthropology of Character, 1-2 Sept 2016, St Andrews (Scotland)
I am very excited to be presenting a paper entitled "Rehearsing detachment: on the cultivation of conduct and character", which draws on my fieldwork on rehearsals in professional German ensemble theatres and with refugee theatre group Ruhrorter.
Abstract: For the Scottish moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, “characters merge what usually is thought to belong to the individual man or woman and what is usually thought to belong to social roles” (After Virtue, 1981). This notion of character is informed by Aristotelian virtue ethics as much as it echoes a canonised theatrical rehearsal method first inaugurated by Constantin Stanislavski and popularised as ‘method acting’. According to this pre- Brechtian acting theory, actors are to identify with their characters as authentically as possible, aiming to merge actor with character. In this paper, I draw on fieldwork with a professional public theatre in western Germany to suggest an alternative view on the cultivation of actors’ expertise at managing the relation to characters. Rather than training to lock themselves into specific characters, this theatre understands characters as fictional tools employed to facilitate reflection on the capacity to detach and appropriate different ways of being. Being in character, then, is not a passive and essential ways of behaving, but a reflected and critical stance that minds the gap between actor and character. Being in character, then, becomes an instrument for reflecting on the acting self. Informed by the anthropology of ethics, this paper suggests various ways in which this process – described by actors in this theatre as the cultivation of conduct (or ‘Haltung’ in German) – can inform our understanding of detachment, reflexivity, and personhood. In a little nod to Adam’s circulated paper, I might even go as far as suggesting a notion of characters, minor or major, as a “repertoire of fiction” that humans more generally draw on to compose themselves on and off the daily stages of life. Perhaps then, borrowing from Lakoff and Johnson, it is not metaphors, but “characters we live by”.
Other participants at the conference include: Prof James Faubion (Keynote), Adam Reed, Alain Pottage, Liana Chua, Jon Bialecki, Huon Wardle, Tom Yarrow, Paolo Heywood, Robin Irvine, Morten Pedersen, Mat Candea, Marilyn Strathern, Matthew Engelke, Nigel Rapport, and Christos Lynteris.
Programm link to pdf here
I am very excited to be presenting a paper entitled "Rehearsing detachment: on the cultivation of conduct and character", which draws on my fieldwork on rehearsals in professional German ensemble theatres and with refugee theatre group Ruhrorter.
Abstract: For the Scottish moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, “characters merge what usually is thought to belong to the individual man or woman and what is usually thought to belong to social roles” (After Virtue, 1981). This notion of character is informed by Aristotelian virtue ethics as much as it echoes a canonised theatrical rehearsal method first inaugurated by Constantin Stanislavski and popularised as ‘method acting’. According to this pre- Brechtian acting theory, actors are to identify with their characters as authentically as possible, aiming to merge actor with character. In this paper, I draw on fieldwork with a professional public theatre in western Germany to suggest an alternative view on the cultivation of actors’ expertise at managing the relation to characters. Rather than training to lock themselves into specific characters, this theatre understands characters as fictional tools employed to facilitate reflection on the capacity to detach and appropriate different ways of being. Being in character, then, is not a passive and essential ways of behaving, but a reflected and critical stance that minds the gap between actor and character. Being in character, then, becomes an instrument for reflecting on the acting self. Informed by the anthropology of ethics, this paper suggests various ways in which this process – described by actors in this theatre as the cultivation of conduct (or ‘Haltung’ in German) – can inform our understanding of detachment, reflexivity, and personhood. In a little nod to Adam’s circulated paper, I might even go as far as suggesting a notion of characters, minor or major, as a “repertoire of fiction” that humans more generally draw on to compose themselves on and off the daily stages of life. Perhaps then, borrowing from Lakoff and Johnson, it is not metaphors, but “characters we live by”.
Other participants at the conference include: Prof James Faubion (Keynote), Adam Reed, Alain Pottage, Liana Chua, Jon Bialecki, Huon Wardle, Tom Yarrow, Paolo Heywood, Robin Irvine, Morten Pedersen, Mat Candea, Marilyn Strathern, Matthew Engelke, Nigel Rapport, and Christos Lynteris.
Programm link to pdf here
"Rethinking Euro-anthropology".
Social Anthropology, 24 (3)
My colleague Vita Peacock (UCL), who has conducted and published fantastic work on hierarchy and organisational logics at the German Max Planck Institutes, just wrote these reinvigorating lines about the future of European anthropology. Well worth a read, the entire issue (here). This is from the last paragraph in Vita's comment:
"A European anthropology for the present century cannot lose any more precious years proving some philosopher right. We must recover our forebears’ sense of purpose, but invert it. While they journeyed thousands of miles, we have limitless work to do here in Europe. While they took their categories with them, we can use other notions they brought back. And while their eyes gleamed with the private thrill of the collector, we can train instead the steady gaze of the hunter. Because for them the future was a lens through which the present was refracted, but for us, anthropology can be a means to discover hidden promises for the future, deep within the depths of the present."
Peacock, Vita. 2016. 'A European anthropology for the present century'. Anthropologie Sociale/Social Anthropology. 24 (3): 378-379.
Social Anthropology, 24 (3)
My colleague Vita Peacock (UCL), who has conducted and published fantastic work on hierarchy and organisational logics at the German Max Planck Institutes, just wrote these reinvigorating lines about the future of European anthropology. Well worth a read, the entire issue (here). This is from the last paragraph in Vita's comment:
"A European anthropology for the present century cannot lose any more precious years proving some philosopher right. We must recover our forebears’ sense of purpose, but invert it. While they journeyed thousands of miles, we have limitless work to do here in Europe. While they took their categories with them, we can use other notions they brought back. And while their eyes gleamed with the private thrill of the collector, we can train instead the steady gaze of the hunter. Because for them the future was a lens through which the present was refracted, but for us, anthropology can be a means to discover hidden promises for the future, deep within the depths of the present."
Peacock, Vita. 2016. 'A European anthropology for the present century'. Anthropologie Sociale/Social Anthropology. 24 (3): 378-379.
Kommentar vom Goethe-Institut zum Ruhrorter Kunst und Theaterprojekt mit Geflüchteten
"Tatsächlich fällt beim Blick auf die nachtkritik -Liste auf, dass künstlerische Initiativen, in denen Geflüchtete die eigene Stimme erheben, noch selten sind. Doch es gibt sie: etwa im Projekt RUHRORTER am Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim, wo Flüchtlinge selbst spielen, inszenieren und konzeptionieren. Oder am Schauspiel Wuppertal, wo Syrer mit Hilfe von regionalen Schriftstellern in Wir erzählen um unser Leben ihre Fluchtgeschichten formulieren. Oder am Theater Osnabrück, wo der syrische Theatermann Anis Hamdoun eigene Projekte gestaltet. Es gibt noch viel zu lernen im neuen Einwanderungsland Deutschland."
http://www.goethe.de/lhr/prj/daz/mag/ksz/de15110483.htm
"Tatsächlich fällt beim Blick auf die nachtkritik -Liste auf, dass künstlerische Initiativen, in denen Geflüchtete die eigene Stimme erheben, noch selten sind. Doch es gibt sie: etwa im Projekt RUHRORTER am Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim, wo Flüchtlinge selbst spielen, inszenieren und konzeptionieren. Oder am Schauspiel Wuppertal, wo Syrer mit Hilfe von regionalen Schriftstellern in Wir erzählen um unser Leben ihre Fluchtgeschichten formulieren. Oder am Theater Osnabrück, wo der syrische Theatermann Anis Hamdoun eigene Projekte gestaltet. Es gibt noch viel zu lernen im neuen Einwanderungsland Deutschland."
http://www.goethe.de/lhr/prj/daz/mag/ksz/de15110483.htm
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EASA 2016 Panel on THE ART OF SLOWING DOWN, Milan/Italy
Looking forward to being discussant on panel P086 on SLOW ANTHROPOLOGY and the ART OF SLOWING DOWN at the 14th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, University of Milano-Bicoccia, 20-23 July 2016 http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4255 |
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OPEN ATELIER - Call for Interest - Ruhrorter project
For our next project, starting mid-August 2016, we are looking for artists (painting, photography, sculpture, fine arts, music, film, literature) who have fled to Germany. Together, we want to create an open atelier or artistic work, encounters, discussions, and get-togethers, which aims to be predominantly self-organised.
To register or contact us, please send us an email until 31 July 2016.
Parallel to the atelier, we are already working on an artistic installation on the bureaucracy of the asylum process, which will open together with the atelier in late September.
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السلسلة الاولى لهذا العام من ثلاثية اجزاء ال RUHRORTER انتهت هذا السبت
لالقاء نظرة اخرى على الاثني عشر عرضاً والذين كانوا ناجحين وحققو اعلى حجوزات
يمكنكم الحصول على الصور والمعلومات على موقعنا
CONTACT
وسيبدأ مشروعنا الجديد في منتصف شهر آب من 2016
نحن نبحث عن فنانين، موسيقيين وانواع اخرى من الفنون كالافلام والآداب التي جاءت من مختلف انحاء العالم الى المانيا
معاً نريد ان نكوّن معرض ومشروع فني يتضمن لقاءات، نقاشات واجتماعات التي تهدف لتكون ذاتية التنظيم
للتسجيل والتواصل معنا الرجاء ارسال ايميل،
التسجيل مستمر حتى 31 تموز 2016
بذات الوقت نحن نعمل على مشروع لشرح التركيب الفني لبيروقراطية عملية اللجوء والذي سيتم افتتاحه في اواخر ايلول
مع تمنياتي للجميع
http://www.ruhrorter.com/atelier.html
For our next project, starting mid-August 2016, we are looking for artists (painting, photography, sculpture, fine arts, music, film, literature) who have fled to Germany. Together, we want to create an open atelier or artistic work, encounters, discussions, and get-togethers, which aims to be predominantly self-organised.
To register or contact us, please send us an email until 31 July 2016.
Parallel to the atelier, we are already working on an artistic installation on the bureaucracy of the asylum process, which will open together with the atelier in late September.
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السلسلة الاولى لهذا العام من ثلاثية اجزاء ال RUHRORTER انتهت هذا السبت
لالقاء نظرة اخرى على الاثني عشر عرضاً والذين كانوا ناجحين وحققو اعلى حجوزات
يمكنكم الحصول على الصور والمعلومات على موقعنا
CONTACT
وسيبدأ مشروعنا الجديد في منتصف شهر آب من 2016
نحن نبحث عن فنانين، موسيقيين وانواع اخرى من الفنون كالافلام والآداب التي جاءت من مختلف انحاء العالم الى المانيا
معاً نريد ان نكوّن معرض ومشروع فني يتضمن لقاءات، نقاشات واجتماعات التي تهدف لتكون ذاتية التنظيم
للتسجيل والتواصل معنا الرجاء ارسال ايميل،
التسجيل مستمر حتى 31 تموز 2016
بذات الوقت نحن نعمل على مشروع لشرح التركيب الفني لبيروقراطية عملية اللجوء والذي سيتم افتتاحه في اواخر ايلول
مع تمنياتي للجميع
http://www.ruhrorter.com/atelier.html
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Kultur und Flucht – Möglichkeitsräume in der Krise? 28 Juni 2016, Podiumsdiskussion im Theater an der Ruhr
Oliver Keymis, MdL, Landtagsvizepräsident, im Gespräch mit: Ulle Schauws, MdB, Sprecherin für Kulturpolitik Helmut Schäfer, Dramaturg und Mitglied der Leitung des Theaters an der Ruhr Jonas Tinius, promovierter Anthropologe, wissenschaftlicher Begleiter des Projekts RUHRORTER – Theater u Kunst mit Geflüchteten |
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Book launch and public panel discussion: What are museums good for in the 21st century? (4 July 2016, CARMaH, HU Berlin)
The Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMaH), where I started working on 1 June 2016, will host a book presentation and panel discussion titled 'What are museums good for in the 21st Century?' on July 4th, 2016. Nicholas Thomas (Director, Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Cambridge) will provide an impulse from his new book, The Return of Curiosity. What Museums are Good for in the 21st Century (2016,Reaktion Books). This will be followed by a discussion with Inka Bertz (Head of Collections, Jewish Museum Berlin), Verena Lepper (Curator, Egyptian and Oriental Papyri, Egyptian Museum of Berlin), Sven Sappelt (Curator of the Humboldt Lab, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Bernd Scherer (Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt), moderated by CARMaH Director Sharon Macdonald, followed by a reception.
Please register via: carmah-conference(at)hu-berlin.de
The Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMaH), where I started working on 1 June 2016, will host a book presentation and panel discussion titled 'What are museums good for in the 21st Century?' on July 4th, 2016. Nicholas Thomas (Director, Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Cambridge) will provide an impulse from his new book, The Return of Curiosity. What Museums are Good for in the 21st Century (2016,Reaktion Books). This will be followed by a discussion with Inka Bertz (Head of Collections, Jewish Museum Berlin), Verena Lepper (Curator, Egyptian and Oriental Papyri, Egyptian Museum of Berlin), Sven Sappelt (Curator of the Humboldt Lab, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Bernd Scherer (Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt), moderated by CARMaH Director Sharon Macdonald, followed by a reception.
Please register via: carmah-conference(at)hu-berlin.de
New article on architecture, power, and Berlin's new old Humboldt-Forum (published in: Calvert Journal)
As part of a series on architecture and power, The Calvert Journal has just published a short piece I co-authored with artist and art historian Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (Oxford) on the palatial recurrences and cosmopolitan framing of the new ethnological collections contained in the Humboldt-Forum on the museum island in Berlin.
calvertjournal.com/features/show/6141/power-and-architecture-humboldt-forum
As part of a series on architecture and power, The Calvert Journal has just published a short piece I co-authored with artist and art historian Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (Oxford) on the palatial recurrences and cosmopolitan framing of the new ethnological collections contained in the Humboldt-Forum on the museum island in Berlin.
calvertjournal.com/features/show/6141/power-and-architecture-humboldt-forum
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Kultur und Flucht – Möglichkeitsräume in der Krise? 28 Juni 2016, Podiumsdiskussion im Theater an der Ruhr
Oliver Keymis, MdL, Landtagsvizepräsident, im Gespräch mit: Ulle Schauws, MdB, Sprecherin für Kulturpolitik Helmut Schäfer, Dramaturg und Mitglied der Leitung des Theaters an der Ruhr Jonas Tinius, promovierter Anthropologe, wissenschaftlicher Begleiter des Projekts RUHRORTER – Theater und Kunst mit Geflüchteten Wann: Dienstag, 28. Juni 2016, 19:00 Uhr Wo: Theater an der Ruhr, Akazienallee 61, 45478 Mülheim an der Ruhr www.ulle-schauws.de/2016/06/kultur-kommt-kultur-und-flucht-moeglichkeitsraeume-in-der-krise/ |
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Starting new post-doc at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMaH), Berlin
Excited to have officially started my new new post-doctoral position at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin, on the exciting Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung funded Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, or CARMaH.
Against the backdrop of Berlin's major new museum developments, most notably the Humboldt-Forum and its associated partners (the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art), my research explores the theorising potential and role of contemporary art in the representation of diversity and non-European art and culture in Germany. My project focuses on a range of dispersed artistic organisations and institutions as sites for reflexive theorising about the relation between art and anthropology, exploring how artists and researchers position themselves with regard to some of the contentious issues raised by ethnological museum projects such as those in the Humboldt-Forum, including questions about the involvement of artistic research and expertise, 'source communities', architectural design, and neo-colonialism/cosmopolitanism.
https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/personen/tinius
Excited to have officially started my new new post-doctoral position at the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University Berlin, on the exciting Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung funded Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, or CARMaH.
Against the backdrop of Berlin's major new museum developments, most notably the Humboldt-Forum and its associated partners (the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art), my research explores the theorising potential and role of contemporary art in the representation of diversity and non-European art and culture in Germany. My project focuses on a range of dispersed artistic organisations and institutions as sites for reflexive theorising about the relation between art and anthropology, exploring how artists and researchers position themselves with regard to some of the contentious issues raised by ethnological museum projects such as those in the Humboldt-Forum, including questions about the involvement of artistic research and expertise, 'source communities', architectural design, and neo-colonialism/cosmopolitanism.
https://www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/personen/tinius
PREMIERE RUHRORTER: Kunst & Theaterprojekt mit Geflüchteten
ALS GESTERN JEDES HEUTE NOCH DAS MORGEN WAR
UND JEDES HEUTE MORGEN SCHON ZUM GESTERN WIRD
RUHRORTER ist ein kollaboratives Kunst und Theaterprojekt, das seit 2012 am Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim Installationen, Recherchen und anthropologische Forschung zum Thema Flucht und Migration realisiert.
ALS GESTERN JEDES HEUTE NOCH DAS MORGEN WAR
UND JEDES HEUTE MORGEN SCHON ZUM GESTERN WIRD
RUHRORTER ist ein kollaboratives Kunst und Theaterprojekt, das seit 2012 am Theater an der Ruhr in Mülheim Installationen, Recherchen und anthropologische Forschung zum Thema Flucht und Migration realisiert.
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Premiere: 3. Juni, 19.30 Aufführungsort: Schloßstraße 35, 45468 Mülheim an der Ruhr Weitere Termine u. Informationen zum Projekt: www.ruhrorter.com |
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THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD? New Monumentality, Neo-Modernism and Other Zombie Urban Utopias
Excited to be speaking on Neo-monumentality and Berlin's new Humboldt-Forum at Michał Murawski (UCL) and Jonathan Bach's (New School) conference on POWER & ARCHITECTURE at UCL from 9-11 June. Check out their programme of events co-organised with Calvert 22 & The Calvert Journal
Excited to be speaking on Neo-monumentality and Berlin's new Humboldt-Forum at Michał Murawski (UCL) and Jonathan Bach's (New School) conference on POWER & ARCHITECTURE at UCL from 9-11 June. Check out their programme of events co-organised with Calvert 22 & The Calvert Journal
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Khadija Zinnenburg Carroll (Oxford) & Jonas Tinius (Humboldt University, European Ethnology): Appropriating Universal Centrality: Containing the World in Berlin’s New Humboldt Forum
http://calvert22.org/events/the-centre-cannot-hold |
Lecture Series: Anthropology of Images, Art, and New Media
Delighted to be giving a four lecture series on the anthropology of art, images, and new media for a new course option (The Anthropology of Media and Visual Culture, SAN11) for the Division of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. In this lecture series, I introduce anthropological approaches to image-making and representation, discussing Hans Belting and Thomas Struth, contemporary anthropological approaches to art, including relational aesthetics, and the role of avatars and self-presentation in new media platforms and social networks.
'The Anthropology of Images, Art, and New Media'.
Easter term 2016, weeks 1-4
Delighted to be giving a four lecture series on the anthropology of art, images, and new media for a new course option (The Anthropology of Media and Visual Culture, SAN11) for the Division of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. In this lecture series, I introduce anthropological approaches to image-making and representation, discussing Hans Belting and Thomas Struth, contemporary anthropological approaches to art, including relational aesthetics, and the role of avatars and self-presentation in new media platforms and social networks.
'The Anthropology of Images, Art, and New Media'.
Easter term 2016, weeks 1-4
RUHRORTER (Theater- und Kunstprojekt mit Geflüchteten) vertreten in Initiative des Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Wir freuen uns, dass Ruhrorter als 'Akteur' auf der Plattform 'Kultur öffnet Welten', verantwortet vom Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, vertreten ist. "Ruhrorter schafft Räume mit eigenen Formen, die andere Möglichkeiten zur Reflexion sozialer Problembereiche eröffnen."
„Kultur öffnet Welten“ ist eine gemeinsame Initiative von Bund, Ländern und Kommunen, künstlerischen Dachverbänden und AkteurInnen aus der Zivilgesellschaft auf Anregung von Kulturstaatsministerin Monika Grütters. Die Initiative wird von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien gefördert.
http://www.kultur-oeffnet-welten.de/programm/akteurinnen_detail.html?id=352&page=5
Wir freuen uns, dass Ruhrorter als 'Akteur' auf der Plattform 'Kultur öffnet Welten', verantwortet vom Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, vertreten ist. "Ruhrorter schafft Räume mit eigenen Formen, die andere Möglichkeiten zur Reflexion sozialer Problembereiche eröffnen."
„Kultur öffnet Welten“ ist eine gemeinsame Initiative von Bund, Ländern und Kommunen, künstlerischen Dachverbänden und AkteurInnen aus der Zivilgesellschaft auf Anregung von Kulturstaatsministerin Monika Grütters. Die Initiative wird von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien gefördert.
http://www.kultur-oeffnet-welten.de/programm/akteurinnen_detail.html?id=352&page=5
'Rehearsing Detachment: Refugee Theatre and Dialectical Fiction' (Journal of Art and Anthropology, 5(1): 21-38)
This article responds to Nicolas Bourriaud’s account of the poetic function of relational art, which for him “consists in re-forming worlds of subjectivization” (2002 [1998]: 104). I challenge and complement his account of how such reforming takes place in relational art by providing an ethnographic description of what I term ‘dialectical fiction’. This notion describes actors’ cultivation of detachment and reappropriation of subjectivity during theatre rehearsals by building up fictional characters.
Download pdf here: https://cadernosaa.revues.org/1022
This article responds to Nicolas Bourriaud’s account of the poetic function of relational art, which for him “consists in re-forming worlds of subjectivization” (2002 [1998]: 104). I challenge and complement his account of how such reforming takes place in relational art by providing an ethnographic description of what I term ‘dialectical fiction’. This notion describes actors’ cultivation of detachment and reappropriation of subjectivity during theatre rehearsals by building up fictional characters.
Download pdf here: https://cadernosaa.revues.org/1022
'Micro-utopias: anthropological perspectives on art, creativity, and relationality' (Special issue in: Journal of Art and Anthropology, 5/1)
EDITORIAL
Ruy Blanes, Alex Flynn, Maïté Maskens and Jonas Tinius
Micro-utopias: anthropological perspectives on art, relationality, and creativity.
https://cadernosaa.revues.org/1017
ARTICLES
Jonas Tinius
Rehearsing Detachment: Refugee Theatre and Dialectical Fiction
https://cadernosaa.revues.org/1022
Further articles by
Floris Schuiling (The Instant Composers Pool),
Alex Flynn (Subjectivity and the Obliteration of Meaning),
Anne-Sophie Reichert (How to Begin, Again. Relational Embodiment in Time Arts & Anthropology),
Jan-Jonathan Bock (Approaching Utopia Pragmatically),
Neylan Bağcıoğlu (Artistic Labour: Seeking a Utopian Dimension),
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Microtopia in Counterpoint: Relational Aesthetics and the Echo Project),
Tomás Sánchez Criado and Adolfo Estalella (Antropocefa: A kit for experimental collaborations in ethnographic practice)
AFTERWORD
Roger Sansi: After Utopias.
https://cadernosaa.revues.org/1078
EDITORIAL
Ruy Blanes, Alex Flynn, Maïté Maskens and Jonas Tinius
Micro-utopias: anthropological perspectives on art, relationality, and creativity.
https://cadernosaa.revues.org/1017
ARTICLES
Jonas Tinius
Rehearsing Detachment: Refugee Theatre and Dialectical Fiction
https://cadernosaa.revues.org/1022
Further articles by
Floris Schuiling (The Instant Composers Pool),
Alex Flynn (Subjectivity and the Obliteration of Meaning),
Anne-Sophie Reichert (How to Begin, Again. Relational Embodiment in Time Arts & Anthropology),
Jan-Jonathan Bock (Approaching Utopia Pragmatically),
Neylan Bağcıoğlu (Artistic Labour: Seeking a Utopian Dimension),
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Microtopia in Counterpoint: Relational Aesthetics and the Echo Project),
Tomás Sánchez Criado and Adolfo Estalella (Antropocefa: A kit for experimental collaborations in ethnographic practice)
AFTERWORD
Roger Sansi: After Utopias.
https://cadernosaa.revues.org/1078
JRAI Review: 'Art, Anthropology and the Gift' (Bloomsbury, 2015) by Roger Sansi
My review of Roger Sansi's latest book has just appeared in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Volume 22, Issue 1, pages 215-2016.
In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a much-needed and comprehensive overview of this dialogue, whilst also exploring the reciprocal nature of the two subjects through practice, theory and politics.
Read it online on the JRAI website here
My review of Roger Sansi's latest book has just appeared in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Volume 22, Issue 1, pages 215-2016.
In recent decades, the dialogue between art and anthropology has been both intense and controversial. Art, Anthropology and the Gift provides a much-needed and comprehensive overview of this dialogue, whilst also exploring the reciprocal nature of the two subjects through practice, theory and politics.
Read it online on the JRAI website here
Theatre Research International Review: 'Lob des Realismus' [Praise of Realism] (Theater der Zeit, 2015) by Bernd Stegemann
My review of Bernd Stegemann's latest book on realism, theatre, and capitalism has just appeared in the latest issue of Theatre Research International (Volume 41, Issue 1, pages 86-87).
Stegemann takes ‘realism’ to be ‘the aesthetic method through which we can cope with an increasingly contradictory world’ (p. 11). This builds on two assumptions arguably shared by all artistic realisms. First, ‘there is a reality and we can try to understand it’, and second, there exist forms of realistic portrayal which help ‘grasp the world as variable and modifiable’, thus freeing people from ‘painfully tolerating their lives as an incomprehensible string of chanceful events’ (p. 8).
Read the review online in TRI
My review of Bernd Stegemann's latest book on realism, theatre, and capitalism has just appeared in the latest issue of Theatre Research International (Volume 41, Issue 1, pages 86-87).
Stegemann takes ‘realism’ to be ‘the aesthetic method through which we can cope with an increasingly contradictory world’ (p. 11). This builds on two assumptions arguably shared by all artistic realisms. First, ‘there is a reality and we can try to understand it’, and second, there exist forms of realistic portrayal which help ‘grasp the world as variable and modifiable’, thus freeing people from ‘painfully tolerating their lives as an incomprehensible string of chanceful events’ (p. 8).
Read the review online in TRI
Cambridge Migration Research Network (December 2015)
Glad to join the Cambridge Migration Research Network (CAMMIGRES) for my work on the RUHRORTER refugee theatre project.
CAMMIGRES brings together a tract of migration research, spanning 23 University of Cambridge faculties, departments and centres, including researchers. Its researchers' interests orient around the impacts of past and present migration in relation to human evolution and development, social, legal, and economic policy, governance, professional knowledge, institutional practice and social relations.
http://www.cammigres.group.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonas-tinius
Glad to join the Cambridge Migration Research Network (CAMMIGRES) for my work on the RUHRORTER refugee theatre project.
CAMMIGRES brings together a tract of migration research, spanning 23 University of Cambridge faculties, departments and centres, including researchers. Its researchers' interests orient around the impacts of past and present migration in relation to human evolution and development, social, legal, and economic policy, governance, professional knowledge, institutional practice and social relations.
http://www.cammigres.group.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonas-tinius
Retheorising the Avant-garde Today: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (12-13 December 2015)
We are pleased to announce this new two-day workshop to be held at King’s College, University of Cambridge. Organised by Georgina Born (Oxford), Christopher Haworth (Oxford), and Jonas Tinius (Cambridge), the event stems from the ERC-funded ‘Music, Digitization, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies’ (MusDig) research programme.
Today, claims for the ‘avant-garde’ status of certain art, musical, theatrical and literary movements and practices are being made with an intensity matching any previous era. Yet these putative avant-gardes often inhabit institutions, find their support in commerce, and can attract subsidies and publicity in ways that approach or match mainstream cultural production, and that oppose the earlier positioning of avant-gardes outside or against these structures. Indeed, the sheer proliferation and scale of such movements and practices seem to contradict the erstwhile claims made for the avant-garde’s marginal, ‘outsider’, underground or independent status, calling forth new approaches to the theory of the avant-garde.
For more information, visit: http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/conference-retheorising-the-avant-garde-today-12-12-2015
We are pleased to announce this new two-day workshop to be held at King’s College, University of Cambridge. Organised by Georgina Born (Oxford), Christopher Haworth (Oxford), and Jonas Tinius (Cambridge), the event stems from the ERC-funded ‘Music, Digitization, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies’ (MusDig) research programme.
Today, claims for the ‘avant-garde’ status of certain art, musical, theatrical and literary movements and practices are being made with an intensity matching any previous era. Yet these putative avant-gardes often inhabit institutions, find their support in commerce, and can attract subsidies and publicity in ways that approach or match mainstream cultural production, and that oppose the earlier positioning of avant-gardes outside or against these structures. Indeed, the sheer proliferation and scale of such movements and practices seem to contradict the erstwhile claims made for the avant-garde’s marginal, ‘outsider’, underground or independent status, calling forth new approaches to the theory of the avant-garde.
For more information, visit: http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/conference-retheorising-the-avant-garde-today-12-12-2015
'15 MINUTES': Artistic responses to precarious refugee temporalities (Repost, February 2015)
My colleagues over at the wonderful anthropology platform Allegra-Lab have just reposted my article on artistic responses to the legal and temporal precariousness of refugees in Germany. The text is based on a paper I presented at the AAA in Washington, D.C. in December 2014 and appeared in a series on refugees and migration edited by Dr Luigi Achilli.
Read the article here: http://tinyurl.com/nnj46ec
My colleagues over at the wonderful anthropology platform Allegra-Lab have just reposted my article on artistic responses to the legal and temporal precariousness of refugees in Germany. The text is based on a paper I presented at the AAA in Washington, D.C. in December 2014 and appeared in a series on refugees and migration edited by Dr Luigi Achilli.
Read the article here: http://tinyurl.com/nnj46ec
Refugee Theatre & Observing Art (Interview, November 2015)
The German magazine TanzRaumBerlin published an interview with me in their November issue. Elena Philipp and I spoke about refugee theatre, collaborations between anthropologists and artists, and institutions as prisms for understanding social transformations. This was conducted by the great journalist Elena Philipp after the Branchentreff Performing Arts Programme Meeting in Berlin in October 2015.
http://tanzraumberlin.de/Magazin-Artikel--435-1.html?id=726
The German magazine TanzRaumBerlin published an interview with me in their November issue. Elena Philipp and I spoke about refugee theatre, collaborations between anthropologists and artists, and institutions as prisms for understanding social transformations. This was conducted by the great journalist Elena Philipp after the Branchentreff Performing Arts Programme Meeting in Berlin in October 2015.
http://tanzraumberlin.de/Magazin-Artikel--435-1.html?id=726
Theatre & Democracy (Interview, October 2015)
The Brazilian Revisita Cardamomo published an interview with me on theatre and democracy. Read the Portuguese and English versions online on their website. A Portuguese translation of my article 'Patronage and Crisis: German theatre and cultural politics' will follow soon. Read the interview here: http://www.revistacardamomo.com/en/english-jonas-tinius/
The Brazilian Revisita Cardamomo published an interview with me on theatre and democracy. Read the Portuguese and English versions online on their website. A Portuguese translation of my article 'Patronage and Crisis: German theatre and cultural politics' will follow soon. Read the interview here: http://www.revistacardamomo.com/en/english-jonas-tinius/
Credit: Refugee theatre, Franziska Götzen
New Anthropologies of Political Performance - Thematic thread on #performance (October 2015)
I am delighted that the wonderful ALLEGRA online platform for anthropological matters has just published the introduction to an exciting special issue of articles on anthropology and political performance by Vita Peacock, Andrea Grant, Vanessa Farr (reviewing Julie Billaud's Kabul Carnival) and Scott Head (reviewing Alex Flynn's and my Anthropology, Theatre, and Development).
"Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the reflexive, relational, and embodied dimensions of performance. Performance is a prism for studying human life. This thematic thread offers to expand our perspective by providing a view into practices of rehearsing, probing, improvising, scores, scripts, choreographies, backstage, frontstage, emergences, entries and exits, frames and scenes. These new anthropological approaches to performance present more than a collection of accounts on one tradition of playful enactment or another."
Read the entire week here: http://allegralaboratory.net/new-anthropologies-of-political-performance-thematic-thread-on-performance-2/
I am delighted that the wonderful ALLEGRA online platform for anthropological matters has just published the introduction to an exciting special issue of articles on anthropology and political performance by Vita Peacock, Andrea Grant, Vanessa Farr (reviewing Julie Billaud's Kabul Carnival) and Scott Head (reviewing Alex Flynn's and my Anthropology, Theatre, and Development).
"Definitions of ‘performance’ abound. Some of the principal reasons for anthropologists’ continued interest in the subject of performance are the reflexive, relational, and embodied dimensions of performance. Performance is a prism for studying human life. This thematic thread offers to expand our perspective by providing a view into practices of rehearsing, probing, improvising, scores, scripts, choreographies, backstage, frontstage, emergences, entries and exits, frames and scenes. These new anthropological approaches to performance present more than a collection of accounts on one tradition of playful enactment or another."
Read the entire week here: http://allegralaboratory.net/new-anthropologies-of-political-performance-thematic-thread-on-performance-2/
Interdisciplinary Performance Network (October 2015)
The Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network is delighted to announce that Prof Martin Puchner (Harvard University) will be opening our third year of seminars at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) with a special event entitled 'The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations In Theater And Philosophy'. Our seminars this year take place under the title 'InterActivity: Performing Relations'.
For more information and this year's full programme, visit our website or click on the programme on the right:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/performance-network
The Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network is delighted to announce that Prof Martin Puchner (Harvard University) will be opening our third year of seminars at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) with a special event entitled 'The Drama of Ideas: Platonic Provocations In Theater And Philosophy'. Our seminars this year take place under the title 'InterActivity: Performing Relations'.
For more information and this year's full programme, visit our website or click on the programme on the right:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/performance-network
Refugee theatre on nachtkritik.de (October 2015)
I am very glad to see that the refugee theatre project RUHRORTER, which I accompanied and documented has been mentioned in a list of theatre projects engaging with refugees by the important theatre platform nachtkritik.de.
#refugeeswelcome – Wie die Theater in der Flüchtlingshilfe aktiv werden
Mülheim, Theater an der Ruhr. Seit 2012 gibt es das "nachhaltige Theater- und Kunstprojekt" Ruhrorter des Theaters an der Ruhr mit Flüchtlingen und Asylsuchenden aus dem Ruhrgebiet. Mit "Ein Stück von mir" (2013), "Zwei Himmel (Palimpsest)" (2014) und "Und die Nacht meines Anfangs" (2015) hat es bereits drei Produktionen herausgebracht. Das Ziel von Ruhrorter ist nach eigenem Bekunden "die Suche nach neuen ästhetischen Formen, um mit den Mitteln der Kunst und der forschenden Dokumentation ein öffentlich sichtbares und erfahrbares Korrektiv gegen die stereotype Kategorisierung und Ausgrenzung von Flüchtlingen und Asylsuchenden – sowohl in der Bürgergesellschaft, als auch in den Medien und der dokumentarischen Kunst – zu entwerfen".
http://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11497:immer-mehr-theater-engagieren-sich-fuer-fluechtlinge&catid=1513:portraet-profil-die-neuen-deutschen&Itemid=85
I am very glad to see that the refugee theatre project RUHRORTER, which I accompanied and documented has been mentioned in a list of theatre projects engaging with refugees by the important theatre platform nachtkritik.de.
#refugeeswelcome – Wie die Theater in der Flüchtlingshilfe aktiv werden
Mülheim, Theater an der Ruhr. Seit 2012 gibt es das "nachhaltige Theater- und Kunstprojekt" Ruhrorter des Theaters an der Ruhr mit Flüchtlingen und Asylsuchenden aus dem Ruhrgebiet. Mit "Ein Stück von mir" (2013), "Zwei Himmel (Palimpsest)" (2014) und "Und die Nacht meines Anfangs" (2015) hat es bereits drei Produktionen herausgebracht. Das Ziel von Ruhrorter ist nach eigenem Bekunden "die Suche nach neuen ästhetischen Formen, um mit den Mitteln der Kunst und der forschenden Dokumentation ein öffentlich sichtbares und erfahrbares Korrektiv gegen die stereotype Kategorisierung und Ausgrenzung von Flüchtlingen und Asylsuchenden – sowohl in der Bürgergesellschaft, als auch in den Medien und der dokumentarischen Kunst – zu entwerfen".
http://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11497:immer-mehr-theater-engagieren-sich-fuer-fluechtlinge&catid=1513:portraet-profil-die-neuen-deutschen&Itemid=85
Journal Article (free download)
50 copies (first come first served basis) of my new article 'Institutional Formations and Artistic Critique in German Ensemble theatre' (2015, Performance Research) have just been made available for free.
Abstract
If institutions are "the more enduring features of social life" (Giddens, The Constitution of Society, 1984), then how do they come into being? What kinds of collective practices and intersubjective aspirations bring them about, and how do they maintain them? This article investigates these questions through the lens of instituting processes, that is, practices that structure and underpin institutional formations. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with the Theater an der Ruhr, a public theatre in the German post-industrial Ruhr valley, this article examines the role of rehearsals as a key instituting practice in theatres.
In this case study, the ideals and actions associated with long-term rehearsals serve not merely a professional purpose as principal form of artistic labour; rather, rehearsals constitute the aesthetic, ethical, and political modus operandi of the institution. As the core work of art in the institution, rehearsals facilitate the long-term development of a collective aesthetic in an ensemble as well as the ethical cultivation of actors' artistic sensibilities. This article thereby also examines how the theatre conceptualises collective rehearsing as a political practice by distinguishing it from the project-based and flexible modalities propagated by post-Fordist policies in the arts. Artistic critique is articulated through and not against the formation of an institution. Based on this account, this article proposes to treat artistic institutions and instituting processes as significant subjects of anthropological research and as prisms for the study of aesthetic, ethical, and political practices.
Click this link to access the article for free:
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/eVNzesshe6S3wpEGHRh8/full
50 copies (first come first served basis) of my new article 'Institutional Formations and Artistic Critique in German Ensemble theatre' (2015, Performance Research) have just been made available for free.
Abstract
If institutions are "the more enduring features of social life" (Giddens, The Constitution of Society, 1984), then how do they come into being? What kinds of collective practices and intersubjective aspirations bring them about, and how do they maintain them? This article investigates these questions through the lens of instituting processes, that is, practices that structure and underpin institutional formations. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with the Theater an der Ruhr, a public theatre in the German post-industrial Ruhr valley, this article examines the role of rehearsals as a key instituting practice in theatres.
In this case study, the ideals and actions associated with long-term rehearsals serve not merely a professional purpose as principal form of artistic labour; rather, rehearsals constitute the aesthetic, ethical, and political modus operandi of the institution. As the core work of art in the institution, rehearsals facilitate the long-term development of a collective aesthetic in an ensemble as well as the ethical cultivation of actors' artistic sensibilities. This article thereby also examines how the theatre conceptualises collective rehearsing as a political practice by distinguishing it from the project-based and flexible modalities propagated by post-Fordist policies in the arts. Artistic critique is articulated through and not against the formation of an institution. Based on this account, this article proposes to treat artistic institutions and instituting processes as significant subjects of anthropological research and as prisms for the study of aesthetic, ethical, and political practices.
Click this link to access the article for free:
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/eVNzesshe6S3wpEGHRh8/full
Division of Social Anthropology
New profile on the website of the social anthropology division is now up.
http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonas-tinius
New profile on the website of the social anthropology division is now up.
http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/directory/jonas-tinius
Presentation (Sept 2015)
'Das Werk der Kunst: Arbeit, Kreativität und Postfordismus'.
Vortrag auf der 7. Arbeitstagung 'Ästhetisierung der Arbeit – Kulturanalytische Perspektiven' der Kommission »Arbeitskulturen« in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv)
University of Bonn, Germany. 24-26 September 2015.
Keynote: Prof Andreas Reckwitz (Frankfurt/Oder)
'Das Werk der Kunst: Arbeit, Kreativität und Postfordismus'.
Vortrag auf der 7. Arbeitstagung 'Ästhetisierung der Arbeit – Kulturanalytische Perspektiven' der Kommission »Arbeitskulturen« in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv)
University of Bonn, Germany. 24-26 September 2015.
Keynote: Prof Andreas Reckwitz (Frankfurt/Oder)
WORKSHOP (Sept 2015)
'Contemporary Anthropologies of Art'
University of Durham | Anthropology Department | 9 September 2015
Keynote speaker: Prof Arnd Schneider (Anthropology, Oslo)
Participants: Prof Michael Carrithers (Durham), Dr Roger Sansi (Goldsmiths), Lidia Rossner (Berlin), Dr Thomas Yarrow (Durham), Johannes Sjøberg (Manchester), Dr Rafael Schacter (UCL), Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Moscow), Dr Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham), etc.
Convenors: Jonas Tinius and Alex Flynn
'Contemporary Anthropologies of Art'
University of Durham | Anthropology Department | 9 September 2015
Keynote speaker: Prof Arnd Schneider (Anthropology, Oslo)
Participants: Prof Michael Carrithers (Durham), Dr Roger Sansi (Goldsmiths), Lidia Rossner (Berlin), Dr Thomas Yarrow (Durham), Johannes Sjøberg (Manchester), Dr Rafael Schacter (UCL), Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Moscow), Dr Nayanika Mookherjee (Durham), etc.
Convenors: Jonas Tinius and Alex Flynn
BOOK CHAPTER (August 2015)
‘Between professional precariousness and creative self-organisation: the free performing arts scene in Germany’, in: Mobile Autonomy. Exercises in Artists’ Self-Organisation, edited by Pascal Gielen and Nico Dockx. 2015. Amsterdam: Valiz, pp. 159-181
"Mobile Autonomy detects what modes of economy and different innovative working modalities artists and other artistic professionals have developed in order to create their work in today’s social, economic and political conditions."
http://www.valiz.nl/en/MobileAutonomy
You can download a pdf of the book chapter for free here:
tinyurl.com/nterstr
‘Between professional precariousness and creative self-organisation: the free performing arts scene in Germany’, in: Mobile Autonomy. Exercises in Artists’ Self-Organisation, edited by Pascal Gielen and Nico Dockx. 2015. Amsterdam: Valiz, pp. 159-181
"Mobile Autonomy detects what modes of economy and different innovative working modalities artists and other artistic professionals have developed in order to create their work in today’s social, economic and political conditions."
http://www.valiz.nl/en/MobileAutonomy
You can download a pdf of the book chapter for free here:
tinyurl.com/nterstr
INTERVIEW (August 2015)
'Good without God'. Interview with anthropologist Matthew Engelke from the London School of Economics for the King's Review series of conversations on the ‘Good Life’. Building on earlier research on what it means to be good for a Christian, Engelke talks about achieving a good life and happiness as a secular humanist in Britain today. In short, such a good life emerges through debate, contemplation, reason and argument – always in relation and conversation with others – and it comes now, in this world, as part of this life’s happiness. Engelke provides us with starting points to explore important questions about wellbeing, ethics, and a good life – without god.
http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/blog/2015/08/05/good-without-god-an-interview-with-matthew-engelke/#top
'Good without God'. Interview with anthropologist Matthew Engelke from the London School of Economics for the King's Review series of conversations on the ‘Good Life’. Building on earlier research on what it means to be good for a Christian, Engelke talks about achieving a good life and happiness as a secular humanist in Britain today. In short, such a good life emerges through debate, contemplation, reason and argument – always in relation and conversation with others – and it comes now, in this world, as part of this life’s happiness. Engelke provides us with starting points to explore important questions about wellbeing, ethics, and a good life – without god.
http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/blog/2015/08/05/good-without-god-an-interview-with-matthew-engelke/#top
ARTICLE (August 2015)
‚Was für ein Theater! Überlegungen zum Spielfeld zwischen ethnographischer Praxis und performativer Kunst’. Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und Ethnologische Beiträge. 68/2015: 30-42. Edited by Katrin Amelang and Silvy Chakkalakal.
[What theatre! Thoughts on the playing field between ethnographic praxis and performative art. Berlin Bulletin. Ethnographic and Ethnological Review].
https://www.panama-verlag.de/programm/abseitiges/
ISBN 978-3-938714-43-0
‚Was für ein Theater! Überlegungen zum Spielfeld zwischen ethnographischer Praxis und performativer Kunst’. Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und Ethnologische Beiträge. 68/2015: 30-42. Edited by Katrin Amelang and Silvy Chakkalakal.
[What theatre! Thoughts on the playing field between ethnographic praxis and performative art. Berlin Bulletin. Ethnographic and Ethnological Review].
https://www.panama-verlag.de/programm/abseitiges/
ISBN 978-3-938714-43-0
BOOK (July 2015)
Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, edited with Alex Flynn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Download the introductory chapter as a pdf from Palgrave here.
"When is reflection political, ethical? This multidimensional collection on performance as theatre opens up an arena for exploration through the sheer audacity of its scope. Anthropologically informed, diversely interpreted, it is a compelling example of unexpected collaborations."
- Dame Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA, Social Anthropology, Cambridge.
Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, edited with Alex Flynn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Download the introductory chapter as a pdf from Palgrave here.
"When is reflection political, ethical? This multidimensional collection on performance as theatre opens up an arena for exploration through the sheer audacity of its scope. Anthropologically informed, diversely interpreted, it is a compelling example of unexpected collaborations."
- Dame Marilyn Strathern, DBE, FBA, Social Anthropology, Cambridge.
CONFERENCE (June 2015)
Creative Labour(er): Anthropological Perspectives on the Work of Art'
8 June 2015
King's College, University of Cambridge.
Keynote: Prof Georgina Born (Music and Anthropology, University of Oxford).
http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/2015/05/creative-labourer-anthropological-perspectives-on-the-work-of-art/
Creative Labour(er): Anthropological Perspectives on the Work of Art'
8 June 2015
King's College, University of Cambridge.
Keynote: Prof Georgina Born (Music and Anthropology, University of Oxford).
http://www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/2015/05/creative-labourer-anthropological-perspectives-on-the-work-of-art/
