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State of the Arts.
An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration
Cambridge University Press, 2023
This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions respond to social change, racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties and recounts how critical contemporary cultural producers position themselves in relation to the tumultuous history of German state patronage, difficult heritage, and the tradition of Bildung (self-formation). This book unravels how actors, directors, and policy makers constitute theatre as a site for extra-ordinary ethical conduct
'‘In this truly captivating book, Jonas Tinius shows most convincingly anthropology´s unique quality to explain the large scale: Germany as a nation and ideas of Bildung in combination with recent migration, through a small scale case of contemporary theatre, the Theatre an der Ruhr. By including the concept 'ethico-aesthetic' the analysis opens up for further understandings of how ethical issues and practices complement aesthetic ones, importantly also further afield. Inspiring and impressive, State of the Arts is a game-changer.'
Helena Wulff - Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
‘State of the Arts is a (perhaps the first) genuine organisational ethnography of a German theatre. Tinius has written a groundbreaking study that links ethnographic fieldwork with fundamental insights into German theatre's institutional makeup to illuminate the remarkable Theater an der Ruhr.'
Christopher Balme - Professor of Theatre Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Reviews, events, discussions
Tanznacht Berlin (Uferstudios, September 2023), Institut für Theaterwissenschaft (Free University Berlin, December 2023), Ad Marginem (Mitteilungen des Instituts für Europäische Musikethnologie an der Universität zu Köln); 1584 Blog (Cambridge University Press); CaMP Blog (Rice University), New Books Network (Podcast), Artery Podcast (University of Cambridge), Berlin Anthropology Seminars / FU Berlin (June 2024), Book launch Barcelona EASA (July 2024)
An Ethnography of German Theatre and Migration
Cambridge University Press, 2023
This is a bold and wide-ranging account of the unique German public theatre system through the prism of a migrant artistic institution in the western post-industrial Ruhr region. State of the Arts analyses how artistic traditions respond to social change, racism, and cosmopolitan anxieties and recounts how critical contemporary cultural producers position themselves in relation to the tumultuous history of German state patronage, difficult heritage, and the tradition of Bildung (self-formation). This book unravels how actors, directors, and policy makers constitute theatre as a site for extra-ordinary ethical conduct
'‘In this truly captivating book, Jonas Tinius shows most convincingly anthropology´s unique quality to explain the large scale: Germany as a nation and ideas of Bildung in combination with recent migration, through a small scale case of contemporary theatre, the Theatre an der Ruhr. By including the concept 'ethico-aesthetic' the analysis opens up for further understandings of how ethical issues and practices complement aesthetic ones, importantly also further afield. Inspiring and impressive, State of the Arts is a game-changer.'
Helena Wulff - Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
‘State of the Arts is a (perhaps the first) genuine organisational ethnography of a German theatre. Tinius has written a groundbreaking study that links ethnographic fieldwork with fundamental insights into German theatre's institutional makeup to illuminate the remarkable Theater an der Ruhr.'
Christopher Balme - Professor of Theatre Studies, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Reviews, events, discussions
Tanznacht Berlin (Uferstudios, September 2023), Institut für Theaterwissenschaft (Free University Berlin, December 2023), Ad Marginem (Mitteilungen des Instituts für Europäische Musikethnologie an der Universität zu Köln); 1584 Blog (Cambridge University Press); CaMP Blog (Rice University), New Books Network (Podcast), Artery Podcast (University of Cambridge), Berlin Anthropology Seminars / FU Berlin (June 2024), Book launch Barcelona EASA (July 2024)
The Trouble with Art.
An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism
Routledge (Routledge Studies in Anthropology), 2024 (forthcoming)
edited with Roger Sansi
Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice. Anthropology is thus part of the trouble with art. But trouble doesn’t necessarily obfuscate, it can also reveal and render visible fault lines and problems; troubles can be assemblages of disparate and even contradictory parts that paradoxically do work together. This volume proposes an anthropology that moves beyond philistinism and the contradictions between critical anthropologies of art and collaborative and experimental anthropologies with art.
The book marks the founding of the Anthropology and the Arts Network within the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) founded by Roger Sansi and Jonas Tinius.
An Anthropology Beyond Philistinism
Routledge (Routledge Studies in Anthropology), 2024 (forthcoming)
edited with Roger Sansi
Art troubles anthropology. Anthropologists have often taken a philistine, sceptical position of distance towards art and aesthetics as a predominantly Western bourgeois institution. But art, not only as a Western institution, generated its own philistine and iconoclastic revisions and undoings, its anti-art, that have engaged anthropology into its theory and practice. Anthropology is thus part of the trouble with art. But trouble doesn’t necessarily obfuscate, it can also reveal and render visible fault lines and problems; troubles can be assemblages of disparate and even contradictory parts that paradoxically do work together. This volume proposes an anthropology that moves beyond philistinism and the contradictions between critical anthropologies of art and collaborative and experimental anthropologies with art.
The book marks the founding of the Anthropology and the Arts Network within the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) founded by Roger Sansi and Jonas Tinius.
Universalism(e) & ...
Conversations
de Gruyter, 2024 (forthcoming)
edited by the Minor Universality Team
(Elsie Cohen, Azyza Deiab, Clément Ndé Fongang, Franck Hofmann,
Markus Messling, Hélène Thiérard, and Jonas Tinius)
This book confronts the history and legitimacy of Western Universalism. In the form of conversations, it documents thinking-in-process about how new forms of universality after ideological universalism can be thought and practised. Bringing into play their practices and theories, the interlocutors of Universalism(e) & … lay their own traces of a minor universality, situated in the troubling present of our times.
Universalism(e) & … révolution, histoires concrètes, préhistoire, multiláteralisme, savoir(s), the partisan position, narration, reparation. Entretiens avec / Conversations with: Arjun Appadurai, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Giovanni Levi, Gisèle Sapiro, David Scott, Adania Shibli, Maria Stavrinaki
The book marks the 6th volume in the series Beyond Universalism, founded and edited by Markus Messling, PI of the ERC Minor Universality project at Saarland University.
open-access, French and English
Conversations
de Gruyter, 2024 (forthcoming)
edited by the Minor Universality Team
(Elsie Cohen, Azyza Deiab, Clément Ndé Fongang, Franck Hofmann,
Markus Messling, Hélène Thiérard, and Jonas Tinius)
This book confronts the history and legitimacy of Western Universalism. In the form of conversations, it documents thinking-in-process about how new forms of universality after ideological universalism can be thought and practised. Bringing into play their practices and theories, the interlocutors of Universalism(e) & … lay their own traces of a minor universality, situated in the troubling present of our times.
Universalism(e) & … révolution, histoires concrètes, préhistoire, multiláteralisme, savoir(s), the partisan position, narration, reparation. Entretiens avec / Conversations with: Arjun Appadurai, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Giovanni Levi, Gisèle Sapiro, David Scott, Adania Shibli, Maria Stavrinaki
The book marks the 6th volume in the series Beyond Universalism, founded and edited by Markus Messling, PI of the ERC Minor Universality project at Saarland University.
open-access, French and English
Minor Universality.
Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism.
de Gruyter, 2022
edited with Markus Messling
open-access, French and English edited volume in the series: Beyond Universalism. Studies on the Contemporary
The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other. Sources of an argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and situated narratives of a common world that re-address the universal are under way of being produced and gain significance. This volume tracks the development and relevance of such cultural and social practices that posit forms of what we call minor universality. It asks: Where and how do contemporary practices open up concrete settings so as to create experiences, reflections and agencies of a shared humanity?
With contributions by Isaac Bazié, Anil Bhatti, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Albert Gouaffo, Stefan Helgesson, Christopher M. Hutton, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Olivier Remaud, Gisèle Sapiro, Bénédicte Savoy, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, and many others
Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism.
de Gruyter, 2022
edited with Markus Messling
open-access, French and English edited volume in the series: Beyond Universalism. Studies on the Contemporary
The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other. Sources of an argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and situated narratives of a common world that re-address the universal are under way of being produced and gain significance. This volume tracks the development and relevance of such cultural and social practices that posit forms of what we call minor universality. It asks: Where and how do contemporary practices open up concrete settings so as to create experiences, reflections and agencies of a shared humanity?
With contributions by Isaac Bazié, Anil Bhatti, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Albert Gouaffo, Stefan Helgesson, Christopher M. Hutton, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Olivier Remaud, Gisèle Sapiro, Bénédicte Savoy, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, and many others
Awkward Archives.
Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum
Archive books, 2022
edited with Margareta von Oswald
open-access workbook with portraits, interviews, exercises, and methods for students
Awkward Archives proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands of archival research as both disciplines challenge their inner logics and epistemologies. Through fieldwork and ethnographic tools and methods, both analogue and digital, the editors take various contemporary archival sites in Berlin as case studies to elaborate on controversial concepts in Western thought. Presenting as such a modular curriculum on archives in their awkwardness—with the tensions, discomfort and antagonisms they pose.
With case studies on Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Hahne-Niehoff Archive and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, among others.
Reviews, events, discussions: New Books Network (July 2023), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin, May 2023), HKW (Berlin, March 2022), Thinking Through the Museum Network (Toronto/online, Feb 2023)
Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum
Archive books, 2022
edited with Margareta von Oswald
open-access workbook with portraits, interviews, exercises, and methods for students
Awkward Archives proposes a manual for academic teaching and learning contexts. An ethnographic research approach is confronted with the demands of archival research as both disciplines challenge their inner logics and epistemologies. Through fieldwork and ethnographic tools and methods, both analogue and digital, the editors take various contemporary archival sites in Berlin as case studies to elaborate on controversial concepts in Western thought. Presenting as such a modular curriculum on archives in their awkwardness—with the tensions, discomfort and antagonisms they pose.
With case studies on Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Hahne-Niehoff Archive and the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, among others.
Reviews, events, discussions: New Books Network (July 2023), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin, May 2023), HKW (Berlin, March 2022), Thinking Through the Museum Network (Toronto/online, Feb 2023)
Across Anthropology.
Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial
Leuven University Press, 2020
edited with Margareta von Oswald
peer-reviewed and open access, including interviews and visual working materials
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, mobilised, and rendered meaningful. Across Anthropology charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, curatorial practice, and Europe’s reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies.
I seldom came across a similarly well-reflected and convincing volume! It asks future-oriented questions across a coherent range of contributions and conversations. This original collection covers relevant exhibition and debates. It is suitable for MA programmes and PhD programmes in curatorial studies,
anthropology, postcolonial studies, visual culture, material culture studies, and art.
- Thomas Fillitz, Professor emeritus, Social Anthropology, University of Vienna
An extraordinarily rich and provocative collection of essays on the transformation of museums and exhibitions devoted to non-Western arts and cultures. Punctuated by interviews with path-breaking curators, the volume keeps us focused on contemporary practice—its real possibilities and constraints. The editors’ guiding concept of “trans-anthroplogy” avoids both defensive celebration and rigid critique. It opens our eyes and ears to the relational transactions, alliances, and difficult dialogues that are animating former anthropology museums today.
- James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
Contributors: Arjun Appadurai, Annette Bhagwati, Clémentine Deliss, Sarah Demart, Natasha Ginwala, Emmanuel Grimaud, Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós, Erica Lehrer, Toma Muteba Luntumbue, Sharon Macdonald, Wayne Modest, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Margareta von Oswald, Roger Sansi, Alexander Schellow, Arnd Schneider, Anna Seiderer Nanette Snoep, Nora Sternfeld, Anne-Christine Taylor, Jonas Tinius
Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial
Leuven University Press, 2020
edited with Margareta von Oswald
peer-reviewed and open access, including interviews and visual working materials
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, mobilised, and rendered meaningful. Across Anthropology charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, curatorial practice, and Europe’s reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies.
I seldom came across a similarly well-reflected and convincing volume! It asks future-oriented questions across a coherent range of contributions and conversations. This original collection covers relevant exhibition and debates. It is suitable for MA programmes and PhD programmes in curatorial studies,
anthropology, postcolonial studies, visual culture, material culture studies, and art.
- Thomas Fillitz, Professor emeritus, Social Anthropology, University of Vienna
An extraordinarily rich and provocative collection of essays on the transformation of museums and exhibitions devoted to non-Western arts and cultures. Punctuated by interviews with path-breaking curators, the volume keeps us focused on contemporary practice—its real possibilities and constraints. The editors’ guiding concept of “trans-anthroplogy” avoids both defensive celebration and rigid critique. It opens our eyes and ears to the relational transactions, alliances, and difficult dialogues that are animating former anthropology museums today.
- James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
Contributors: Arjun Appadurai, Annette Bhagwati, Clémentine Deliss, Sarah Demart, Natasha Ginwala, Emmanuel Grimaud, Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós, Erica Lehrer, Toma Muteba Luntumbue, Sharon Macdonald, Wayne Modest, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Margareta von Oswald, Roger Sansi, Alexander Schellow, Arnd Schneider, Anna Seiderer Nanette Snoep, Nora Sternfeld, Anne-Christine Taylor, Jonas Tinius
Reviews, events, discussions
New Books Network (January 2022), Critique d'Art (November 2021), Museum Anthropology (November 2021), Grassi Museum (Leipzig, October 2021)
New Books Network (January 2022), Critique d'Art (November 2021), Museum Anthropology (November 2021), Grassi Museum (Leipzig, October 2021)
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Book launch with Navid Kermani, Akademie der Künste Berlin
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Der fremde Blick.
Roberto Ciulli und das Theater an der Ruhr
Alexander Verlag Berlin, 2020
edited with Alexander Wewerka
In 1980, the Italian Roberto Ciulli founds in Mülheim an der Ruhr, together with the dramaturg Helmut Schäfer and the stage designer Gralf-Edzard Habben, the Theater an der Ruhr - an independent but publicly funded ensemble theatre. In over 40 years, the theatre travelled to more than forty countries - including Iran, Chile, Russia, Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iraq - and invited artists from precarious political regions of the world to the Ruhr region. It became, in the words of its founder, a theatre for all bastards of the world
- those expelled, sanctioned, without "fatherland and mother tongue".
For the first time, this book - published in two volumes - gathers previously unpublished archival materials, re-transcribed diaries and notebooks, new translations of unpublished essays and literary material, in over 1300 pages with more than 400 illustrations.
Reviews, events, discussions: This documentary work on the Faust-prize winning director and philosopher Ciulli and his theatre has been discussed in a wide variety of media platforms in film, radio, and print, among them nachtkritik.de, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, WDR5 Scala, WDR 3 Kultur am Mittag, Die Deutsche Bühne, Theater heute. You can find a selection of these voices on the publisher's website: www.alexander-verlag.com/programm/titel/roberto-ciulli-der-fremde-blick.html
Book trailer by documentary filmmaker Didi Danquart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-YaP4F_HQE&t=99s
Roberto Ciulli und das Theater an der Ruhr
Alexander Verlag Berlin, 2020
edited with Alexander Wewerka
In 1980, the Italian Roberto Ciulli founds in Mülheim an der Ruhr, together with the dramaturg Helmut Schäfer and the stage designer Gralf-Edzard Habben, the Theater an der Ruhr - an independent but publicly funded ensemble theatre. In over 40 years, the theatre travelled to more than forty countries - including Iran, Chile, Russia, Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iraq - and invited artists from precarious political regions of the world to the Ruhr region. It became, in the words of its founder, a theatre for all bastards of the world
- those expelled, sanctioned, without "fatherland and mother tongue".
For the first time, this book - published in two volumes - gathers previously unpublished archival materials, re-transcribed diaries and notebooks, new translations of unpublished essays and literary material, in over 1300 pages with more than 400 illustrations.
Reviews, events, discussions: This documentary work on the Faust-prize winning director and philosopher Ciulli and his theatre has been discussed in a wide variety of media platforms in film, radio, and print, among them nachtkritik.de, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurther Allgemeine Zeitung, WDR5 Scala, WDR 3 Kultur am Mittag, Die Deutsche Bühne, Theater heute. You can find a selection of these voices on the publisher's website: www.alexander-verlag.com/programm/titel/roberto-ciulli-der-fremde-blick.html
Book trailer by documentary filmmaker Didi Danquart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-YaP4F_HQE&t=99s
Otherwise: Rethinking Museum and Heritage.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (e-doc), 2018
Edited by Jonas Tinius, Christine Gerbich, Larissa Förster, Sharon Macdonald, Katarzyna Puzon, Margareta von Oswald.
open-access book published and hosted by Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage / e-doc server of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The essays collected together here each explore a concept that offers the potential to think and do museum and heritage practice otherwise – that is, to think and do museums and heritage differently from the ways in which they have more recently or more usually been done. This ‘otherwising’ is thoroughly anthropological. It draws from a disciplinary approach that seeks to explore diverse ways of doing and thinking – to learn from other ways of being wise – in order to rethink, re-do, and transform, what might otherwise be taken for granted or left unexamined. (Sharon Macdonald)
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (e-doc), 2018
Edited by Jonas Tinius, Christine Gerbich, Larissa Förster, Sharon Macdonald, Katarzyna Puzon, Margareta von Oswald.
open-access book published and hosted by Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage / e-doc server of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The essays collected together here each explore a concept that offers the potential to think and do museum and heritage practice otherwise – that is, to think and do museums and heritage differently from the ways in which they have more recently or more usually been done. This ‘otherwising’ is thoroughly anthropological. It draws from a disciplinary approach that seeks to explore diverse ways of doing and thinking – to learn from other ways of being wise – in order to rethink, re-do, and transform, what might otherwise be taken for granted or left unexamined. (Sharon Macdonald)
Micro-utopias. Connections in anthropology, art, relationality and creativity
Journal of Art and Anthropology/ Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. 5.1 (2016)
Special Issue co-edited with Ruy Blanes, Alex Flynn, and Maïté Maskens
As a point of departure for this conversation, we chose the curatorial proposition of “micro-utopias” and instances of relational art as an example of a canonised but provocative concept from the artistic field that prompts three principal questions of relevance to this issue and the wider intervention we propose. First, how do artists engage with art theory and therefore how do their negotiations become part of and constitute art as a dynamic theoretical field? Second, how can micro-utopias (as an example of such artistic theorisation) become an analytic beyond what might be considered part of art worlds? And third, how can such dynamic theorisations feed back into anthropological concepts and practice? The framework of this special issue, and the contributions we have assembled, respond to and engage with this concept by throwing light on anthropological thinking about subjectivity, the negotiation of meaning, post-democracy, citizenship and the state, self-cultivation, exchange, and methodology.
Journal of Art and Anthropology/ Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. 5.1 (2016)
Special Issue co-edited with Ruy Blanes, Alex Flynn, and Maïté Maskens
As a point of departure for this conversation, we chose the curatorial proposition of “micro-utopias” and instances of relational art as an example of a canonised but provocative concept from the artistic field that prompts three principal questions of relevance to this issue and the wider intervention we propose. First, how do artists engage with art theory and therefore how do their negotiations become part of and constitute art as a dynamic theoretical field? Second, how can micro-utopias (as an example of such artistic theorisation) become an analytic beyond what might be considered part of art worlds? And third, how can such dynamic theorisations feed back into anthropological concepts and practice? The framework of this special issue, and the contributions we have assembled, respond to and engage with this concept by throwing light on anthropological thinking about subjectivity, the negotiation of meaning, post-democracy, citizenship and the state, self-cultivation, exchange, and methodology.
Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance
Palgrave, 2015
Edited with Alex Flynn
"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." (Marilyn Strathern)
Reviewed in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (22/4, 2016) (Click here for PDF)
Palgrave, 2015
Edited with Alex Flynn
"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." (Marilyn Strathern)
Reviewed in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (22/4, 2016) (Click here for PDF)
journal articles
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2024
‘Oltre l'Arcadia. Politica culturale e istituzionalizzazione dell'arte'. Art e Dossier. Feb. 2024. 417: 14-17. (Eng. Beyond Arcadia. Cultural Politics and the Institutionalisation of Art). LINK --> tiniius_villa_romana_art_e_dossier.pdf |
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2022
‘Il lavoro (im)possibile della riparazione. Kader Attia e la Biennale di Berlino‘. Art e Dossier. Sept. 2022. Number 401: 18–21. (Eng. The (im)possible work of reparation. Kader Attia and the Berlin Biennale). LINK |
JOURNAL ARTICLES
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2021
‘Il palazzo dell dubbio’. Art e Dossier. Sept. 2021. Number 390: 38–43. (Eng. The Palace of Doubt). LINK |
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2021
‘The Anthropologist as Sparring Partner: Instigative Public Fieldwork, Curatorial Collaboration, and German Colonial Heritage’. Berliner Blätter. Ethnografische und Ethnologische Beiträge. 83: 65−85. open-access link |
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2021
'Verso un museo postuniversale'. Art e Dossier. Feb. 2021. No. 384: 20-23. (Eng. Towards a postuniversal museum). LINK TO PDF |
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Nora Al-Badri and Nikolai Nelles, Nefertiti Hack, 2015, 3D dataset of Nefertiti rendered by the artists.
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2020
‘Traces, Legacies, and Futures: A Conversation on Art and Temporality’ (with Nora-Al-Badri, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Silvy Chakkalakal, Alya Sebti, and Jonas Tinius).Third Text Forum 01/2020. Open-access LINK |
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2019
'‘Value, Correspondence, and Form: Recalibrating Scales for a Contemporary Anthropology of Art (Epilogue)’. AnthroVision. Journal of the Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. 7 (1). LINK |
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2018
'Capacity for Character: Fiction, Ethics, and the Anthropology of Conduct'. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 26 (3): 345-360. LINK |
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2017
'Art as ethical practice: anthropological observations on and beyond theatre'. World Art 7(2): 227-251. LINK |
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2016
‘Authenticity and otherness: reflecting statelessness in German postmigrant theatre’. Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques. 14 (2016). LINK |
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2016
‘Palace coups: Reconstructing History in the Heart of Berlin'. Co-authored with Prof Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. Calvert Journal. June 2016. Link |
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2016
‘Rehearsing detachment: refugee theatre and dialectical fiction’. Journal of Art and Anthropology/Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. 5(1): 21-38.
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‘Rehearsing detachment: refugee theatre and dialectical fiction’. Journal of Art and Anthropology/Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. 5(1): 21-38.
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2016
‘Micro-utopias: anthropological perspectives on art, creativity, and relationality’ Co-authored introduction to special issue with Ruy Blanes, Alex Flynn, and Maïté Maskens. Journal of Art and Anthropology/Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. 5(1): 5-20. Link to intro & special issue
‘Micro-utopias: anthropological perspectives on art, creativity, and relationality’ Co-authored introduction to special issue with Ruy Blanes, Alex Flynn, and Maïté Maskens. Journal of Art and Anthropology/Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. 5(1): 5-20. Link to intro & special issue
2015
‘Institutional formations and artistic critique in German ensemble theatre’. Performance Research. 20 (4): 72-78.
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‘Institutional formations and artistic critique in German ensemble theatre’. Performance Research. 20 (4): 72-78.
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2015
‚Was für ein Theater! Überlegungen zum Spielfeld zwischen ethnographischer Praxis und performativer Kunst’. Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und Ethnologische Beiträge. 68/2015: 30-42.
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‚Was für ein Theater! Überlegungen zum Spielfeld zwischen ethnographischer Praxis und performativer Kunst’. Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und Ethnologische Beiträge. 68/2015: 30-42.
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2014
‘Art in Adorno’s Ethical Thought: Negative Utopias in a Wrong Life’. Cambridge Humanities Review. 5-9.
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‘Art in Adorno’s Ethical Thought: Negative Utopias in a Wrong Life’. Cambridge Humanities Review. 5-9.
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2014
‘Die schmutzige Kulturmetropole. Überlegungen zu Industrie, Kunst und Gesellschaft im Ruhrgebiet’. Fensterplatz. Zeitschrift für Kulturforschung. 2012 (4).
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‘Die schmutzige Kulturmetropole. Überlegungen zu Industrie, Kunst und Gesellschaft im Ruhrgebiet’. Fensterplatz. Zeitschrift für Kulturforschung. 2012 (4).
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2012
‘UrSprünge: das Feld zwischen Theater und Anthropologie’. Brink. Magazin zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. (2): 6-9. Link
‘UrSprünge: das Feld zwischen Theater und Anthropologie’. Brink. Magazin zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. (2): 6-9. Link
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2023
‘(ir)reparability begins in the body. Towards a museum of disrepair’ (with Angelica Pesarini), in: Reparation, Restitution, and the Politics of Memory. Perspectives from Cultural, Historical, and Literary Studies, edited by Carla Seemann, Mario Laarmanns, Clément Ndé Fongang, Laura Vordermayer. Boston / New York: De Gruyter pp. 91–108. |
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BOOK CHAPTERS
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2021
“Animated Words, Will Accompany my Gestures”. Seismographic Choreographies of Difficult Heritage in Museums”, in: Moving Spaces. Enacting Dance, Performance, and the Digital in the Museum, edited by Susanne Franco and Gabriella Giannachi. Venice: Università Ca’ Foscari Press / Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, pp. 77–92. open-access publication, LINK |
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2020
‘Theater als Kunst. Zu diesem Buch‘ (co-authored with Alexander Wewerka), in: Der fremde Blick. Roberto Ciulli und das Theater an der Ruhr, edited by Jonas Tinius and Alexander Wewerka. Berlin: Alexander Verlag. LINK |
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2020
‘Ein gemeinsames Denken zwischen und jenseits von Anthropologie und Theater (Vorbemerkung)‘, in: Der fremde Blick. Roberto Ciulli und das Theater an der Ruhr, edited by Jonas Tinius and Alexander Wewerka. Berlin: Alexander Verlag. LINK |
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2020
‘Porous Membranes: Alterity, Hospitality, and Difference in a Berlin District Gallery’, in: Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial, edited by Jonas Tinius and Margareta von Oswald. Leuven: Leuven University Press, pp. 255–276. Download the book |
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2020
‘Across Anthropology: Introduction’ (with Margareta von Oswald), in: Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial, edited by Jonas Tinius and Margareta von Oswald. Leuven: Leuven University Press, pp. 17–42. Download the book |
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2020
‘Die Ethnografie as Methode der Theaterwissenschaften?’, in: Balme, Christopher and Berenika Szymanski-Düll. Eds. Methoden der Theaterwissenschaft. Forum Modernes Theater Schriftenreihe. Tübingen: Narr, pp. 313–334. LINK |
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2020
‘Phantom Palaces: Prussian Centralities and Humboldtian Horizontalities’ (with Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll), in: Jonathan Bach and Michal Murawski. Eds. Re-Centring the City. Global Mutations of Socialist Modernity. London: UCL Press. (Open-access), pp. 90–103. LINK to PDF |
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2020
'The Recursivity of the Curatorial' (with Sharon Macdonald)', in: The Anthropologist as Curator, edited by Roger Sansi. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 35-58. LINK |
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2020
‘Mapping Diversity: Notes on Germany’, in: Beyond Afropolitan & Other Labels: On the Complexities of Dis-Othering as a Process, edited by Kathleen Louw et al. Brussels: BOZAR, pp. 49-54. ‘Troubling diversity and iterations of difference: reflections on curatorial tensions and a mapping survey’, in: Beyond Afropolitan & Other Labels: On the Complexities of Dis-Othering as a Process, edited by Kathleen Louw et al. Brussels: BOZAR, pp. 39-45. ‘Mapping Diversities in Austria, Belgium, and Germany. An introduction to the polyvalent politics of diversity and the difficulties of dis-othering’ (with Tonica Hunter and Naomi Ntakiyica), in: Beyond Afropolitan & Other Labels: On the Complexities of Dis-Othering as a Process, edited by Kathleen Louw et al. Brussels: BOZAR, pp. 11–14. Link to all pdfs |
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2019
'Fieldnotes’, in: Post-Otherness Wedding / Unsustainable Privileges. Galerie Wedding – Space for Contemporary Art Berlin, edited by Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. Bielefeld / New York: Kerber, pp. 177 – 181. LINK |
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2019
‘Interstitial Agents: Negotiating Migration and Diversity in Theatre’, in: Bock, Jan-Jonathan and Sharon Macdonald (eds) Refugees Welcome? Differences and Diversity in a Changing Germany. Oxford/New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 241–264. |
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2018
‘Alterity’, in: Tinius et al. Otherwise: Rethinking Museums and Heritage. Berlin: CARMAH, pp. 40–54. LINK |
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2018
‘Artistic Diplomacy: On Civic Engagement and Transnational Theatre', in: Breed, Ananda and Tim Prentki. (eds.) Performance and Civic Engagement. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 269-300. LINK to PDF |
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2018
‘(Per)former de nouvelles institutions artistiques: autorité et travail créatif au Theater an der Ruhr’, in: Troupes, compagnies, collectifs dans les arts vivants: organisations du travail, processus de création et conjonctures’, edited by Bérénice Hamidi-Kim and Séverine Ruset-Penketh. Paris: Édition L’Entretemps, pp. 407-420.
‘(Per)former de nouvelles institutions artistiques: autorité et travail créatif au Theater an der Ruhr’, in: Troupes, compagnies, collectifs dans les arts vivants: organisations du travail, processus de création et conjonctures’, edited by Bérénice Hamidi-Kim and Séverine Ruset-Penketh. Paris: Édition L’Entretemps, pp. 407-420.
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2018
‘Awkward Art and Difficult Heritage: Nazi Art Collectors and Postcolonial Archives’, in: Thomas Fillitz and Paul van der Grijp. Eds. An Anthropology of Contemporary Art: Practices, Markets, and Collectors. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 130–145. LINK to PDF |
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2017
'Prekarität und Ästhetisierung: Reflexionen zu postfordistischer Arbeit in der freien Theaterszene', in: Ove Sutter and Valeska Flor (eds.) Ästhetisierung der Arbeit. Kulturanalysen des kognitiven Kapitalismus. Bonner Beiträge zur Alltagskulturforschung. Band 11. Münster: Walmann, pp. 139-156. LINK to pdf |
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2017
‘The privilege of life itself: sovereignty, power, and the figure of the refugee’, in: Bare Lives. [Exhibition catalogue, edited by Mario Rizzi, based on an exhibition curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Solvej Helweg Ovesen.] Berlin: Archive books, pp. 68–75. LINK |
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2017
‘Anthropologische Beobachtungen zu künstlerischer Subjektivierung und institutioneller Reflexivität: Das Theaterprojekt Ruhrorter mit Geflüchteten am Theater an der Ruhr’, in: Matthias Warstat et al. Applied Theatre – Frames and Positions. Berlin: Theater der Zeit, S. 205–235.] LINK to pdf |
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2015
‘Between professional precariousness and creative self-organisation: the free performing arts scene in Germany’, in: Mobile Autonomy. Organizing ourselves as artists today, edited by Pascal Gielen and Nico Dockx. Amsterdam: Valiz, pp. 159-181. link to free pdf of the chapter |
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2015
‘Reflecting on political performance: Introducing critical perspectives’ (co-authored with Alex Flynn), in: Anthropology, Theatre, and Performance: The Transformative Potential of Performance, edited by Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-28. --> pdf ‘Aesthetics, Ethics, and Engagement: Self-cultivation as the politics of engaged theatre', in: Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, edited by Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius. Basingstoke/New: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171-202. --> Link ‘Activism and autonomy: political aesthetics and aesthetic politics (Editor’s Note)’, in: Anthropology, Theatre, and Performance: The Transformative Potential of Performance, edited by Alex Flynn and Jonas Tinius. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 261-265. --> Link |
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2015
'Colonial copies and ethnographic conceptualism: artistic experiments at the intersection of anthropology, history, and science', in: Allegory of the Cave Painting. A Reader. eds. Mihnea Mircan and Vincent van Gerven Oei. Milan: Mousse Publishing, pp. 257-275. Download pdf |
2015
'Bilder, Reisen und Theaterlandschaften: Roberto Ciullis Theater an der Ruhr’, in: Das Deutsche Theater im 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte 2015, pp. 127-151. [Eng. Images, Travel, and Theaterlandscape: Roberto Ciulli’s Theater an der Ruhr, in: The German Theatre of the 20th century. Society for Theatre history]. -- pdf
'Bilder, Reisen und Theaterlandschaften: Roberto Ciullis Theater an der Ruhr’, in: Das Deutsche Theater im 20. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Gesellschaft für Theatergeschichte 2015, pp. 127-151. [Eng. Images, Travel, and Theaterlandscape: Roberto Ciulli’s Theater an der Ruhr, in: The German Theatre of the 20th century. Society for Theatre history]. -- pdf
reviews, essays, interviews
2024 ‘In Schwellenzeiten. Der Deutsche Pavillon der Venedig Biennale 2024‘. Arts of the Working Class. 23 May 2024. https://artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/in-schwellenzeiten
2020
‘Fragments and Fiction’, in: Viron Erol Vert: Family Matters, edited by. K. Kramer, D. Yazici. Berlin: Distanz Verlag, pp. 234–236.
‘Problematising PostHeimat’ (with Nora Haakh, Ruba Totah). PostHeimat Network, funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. April 2020.
2019
‘We go to Venice and we will walk on water. Jonas Tinius in conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on Bauhaus, rematriation, and photography’. Something We Africans Got 7: 38–42. #Venicebiennale
2017
‘Art and Anachronisms.’ Second colum for ifa-gallery 2017-2018 one-year programme Untie to tie: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies, ifa-Galerie, Berlin/Germany. [LINK]
‘The Porosity of Darkness: A Conversation on Architecture, Multimedia Arts, and the Venice Biennale’ (with Danish artist Kirstine Roeppstorff and curator of the Danish Pavilion Solvej Helweg Ovesen). Mousse Magazine. 13 September 2017. [LINK]
‘Sparring Partners: An Introduction to the Gallery Reflections Series’. Opening online column for ifa-gallery 2017-2018 one-year programme Untie to tie: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies, ifa-Galerie, Berlin/Germany. [LINK]
‘Bare Lives: A Conversation’ (Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Mario Rizzi, Jonas Tinius). Published in: Bare Lives, edited by Mario Rizzi, based on an exhibition curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Solvej Helweg Ovesen.] Berlin: Archive books, pp. 68–75. [Link to pdf]
‘Europas Interne Andere: Ein Gespräch mit dem Kurator und Künstler Moritz Pankok’. CARMAH Reflections article. Published on 4 May 2017. (LINK)
2016
‘Economy, Happiness, and the Good Life’. An Interview with Prof Edward Fischer (Vanderbilt) on The Good Life. King’s Review. 2016 (1): 90–102.
‘Institutions’ (with Lidia Rossner). Entry in GRAPA research group web dictionary. In collaboration with the ‘Anthropology of Art’ interest group of VANEASA (Visual Anthropology section of the European Association of Social Anthropologists). June 2016. [Link]
Conference report: Retheorising the Avant-Garde Today: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Convened with Georgina Born and Christopher Haworth). Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies ERC-funded research project 2012-2015 Blog. 21 February 2016.
Review: Art, Anthropology and the Gift (2015) by Roger Sansi. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 22 (1): 215-216. [Link to review]
Book review: Stegemann, Bernd (2015): Lob des Realismus. [Praise of Realism]. Theatre Research International. 41 (1): 86-87. [Link to review]
2015
'Der Theaterberater'. Interview. TanzRaumBerlin. (German). 10 November 2015. [Link to Interview].
'Theatre and Democracy'. Interview. Revista Cardamomo. (English & Portuguese). 20 October 2015. [Link to Interview].
'New Anthropologies of Political Performance'. Introduction to Thematic Week. Allegra Laboratory. 19 October 2015. [Link to article]
‘Good without God?’ Interview with Prof Matthew Engelke (Anthropology, LSE). King’s Review. 5 August 2015. [Link to interview]
'State of the art relations: new approaches to the anthropology of art' (co-authored with Alex Flynn). British Academy Blog. 12 March 2013. [Link to blogpost]
Translation, ‘Pussy Riot’s Moscow Trials: Restaging Political Protest and Juridical Metaperformance’, in: Flynn, Alex and Jonas Tinius (eds): Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 279-285. [Link to interview].
'All the world's a stage?' A review of Bruno Latour's Gaïa Global Circus play. ALLEGRA - A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology. 3 March 2015. [Link to article]
‘15 MINUTES’: Artistic responses to German refugee temporalities. ALLEGRA - A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology. 24 February 2015. [Link to article]
Conversation and comment on Art, Work, Postfordism, and the free German performing arts scene cobratheatercobra.com, 19 February 2015. [Link to article]
2014
'The Politics of Framing and Staging. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Performance.' ALLEGRA - A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology. 13 Nov. 2014. [Link to article]
'The unethical aesthetic? A commentary on the Gurlitt case'. King's Review. 23 January 2014. [Link to article]
'Ruhrorter - Projekt der Woche #34'. Kultur bildet - Das Portal für kulturelle Bildung (Deutscher Kulturrat e.V.). [Link to article]
Review: Alloa, Emmanuel (2013): Erscheinung und Ereignis. Zur Zeitlichkeit des Bildes. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Theaterforschung.de. 6 October 2014. [Link]
'Die Eleganz des Unperfekten'. Rezension Tanztheater 'magic lines' im Ringlokschuppen. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 2 June 2014
'Performing Temporality and Refugee Theatre.' Interview ERC-project 'The Aesthetics of Applied Theatre', conducted by Kristin Flade. 25 March 2014.
'Die Freiheit des Theaterspiels'. Sabrina (Teil 4) Weekly column in the daily Westdeutsche Allgemein Zeitung. 28 April 2014.
'Vom Dozenten zum Flüchtling' - Peiman (Teil 3) Weekly column in the daily Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 2 April 2014.
'Leben auf Zeit in Deutschland' - Marvin (Teil 2) Weekly column in the daily Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 14 March 2014.
'Mülheimer Flüchtlinge sehnen sich nach Sicherheit' - Reem (Teil 1) Weekly column in the daily Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 06 March 2014.
'RUHRORTER - ein neues Kunst- und Theaterprojekt mit Flüchtlingen in Mülheim an der Ruhr'.
Article on the pages of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr and of the Integration and Participation council. 28 February 2014.
2013
Feature Review Article: ‘40,000 years of Modern Art: A Re-Enactment’ by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. Visual Arts Australia.
'Changing the Wheel: Bertolt Brecht's Stories from the Revolution'. King's Review. 19 March 2013.
‘Patronage and Crisis: German theatre and cultural politics’. King’s Review. 15 February 2013.
‘Review Essay (in English): Nowak, Anja (2012): Elemente einer Ästhetik des Theatralen in Adornos Ästhetischer Theorie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.’ www.theaterforschung.de. [Link]
2011
'Bertolt Brecht and the theatre of alienation'. Art of the possible. The Cambridge University Journal of Politics. (1): 21-24.
2020
‘Fragments and Fiction’, in: Viron Erol Vert: Family Matters, edited by. K. Kramer, D. Yazici. Berlin: Distanz Verlag, pp. 234–236.
‘Problematising PostHeimat’ (with Nora Haakh, Ruba Totah). PostHeimat Network, funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. April 2020.
2019
‘We go to Venice and we will walk on water. Jonas Tinius in conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on Bauhaus, rematriation, and photography’. Something We Africans Got 7: 38–42. #Venicebiennale
2017
‘Art and Anachronisms.’ Second colum for ifa-gallery 2017-2018 one-year programme Untie to tie: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies, ifa-Galerie, Berlin/Germany. [LINK]
‘The Porosity of Darkness: A Conversation on Architecture, Multimedia Arts, and the Venice Biennale’ (with Danish artist Kirstine Roeppstorff and curator of the Danish Pavilion Solvej Helweg Ovesen). Mousse Magazine. 13 September 2017. [LINK]
‘Sparring Partners: An Introduction to the Gallery Reflections Series’. Opening online column for ifa-gallery 2017-2018 one-year programme Untie to tie: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies, ifa-Galerie, Berlin/Germany. [LINK]
‘Bare Lives: A Conversation’ (Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Solvej Helweg Ovesen, Mario Rizzi, Jonas Tinius). Published in: Bare Lives, edited by Mario Rizzi, based on an exhibition curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Solvej Helweg Ovesen.] Berlin: Archive books, pp. 68–75. [Link to pdf]
‘Europas Interne Andere: Ein Gespräch mit dem Kurator und Künstler Moritz Pankok’. CARMAH Reflections article. Published on 4 May 2017. (LINK)
2016
‘Economy, Happiness, and the Good Life’. An Interview with Prof Edward Fischer (Vanderbilt) on The Good Life. King’s Review. 2016 (1): 90–102.
‘Institutions’ (with Lidia Rossner). Entry in GRAPA research group web dictionary. In collaboration with the ‘Anthropology of Art’ interest group of VANEASA (Visual Anthropology section of the European Association of Social Anthropologists). June 2016. [Link]
Conference report: Retheorising the Avant-Garde Today: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Convened with Georgina Born and Christopher Haworth). Music, Digitisation, Mediation: Towards Interdisciplinary Music Studies ERC-funded research project 2012-2015 Blog. 21 February 2016.
Review: Art, Anthropology and the Gift (2015) by Roger Sansi. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 22 (1): 215-216. [Link to review]
Book review: Stegemann, Bernd (2015): Lob des Realismus. [Praise of Realism]. Theatre Research International. 41 (1): 86-87. [Link to review]
2015
'Der Theaterberater'. Interview. TanzRaumBerlin. (German). 10 November 2015. [Link to Interview].
'Theatre and Democracy'. Interview. Revista Cardamomo. (English & Portuguese). 20 October 2015. [Link to Interview].
'New Anthropologies of Political Performance'. Introduction to Thematic Week. Allegra Laboratory. 19 October 2015. [Link to article]
‘Good without God?’ Interview with Prof Matthew Engelke (Anthropology, LSE). King’s Review. 5 August 2015. [Link to interview]
'State of the art relations: new approaches to the anthropology of art' (co-authored with Alex Flynn). British Academy Blog. 12 March 2013. [Link to blogpost]
Translation, ‘Pussy Riot’s Moscow Trials: Restaging Political Protest and Juridical Metaperformance’, in: Flynn, Alex and Jonas Tinius (eds): Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 279-285. [Link to interview].
'All the world's a stage?' A review of Bruno Latour's Gaïa Global Circus play. ALLEGRA - A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology. 3 March 2015. [Link to article]
‘15 MINUTES’: Artistic responses to German refugee temporalities. ALLEGRA - A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology. 24 February 2015. [Link to article]
Conversation and comment on Art, Work, Postfordism, and the free German performing arts scene cobratheatercobra.com, 19 February 2015. [Link to article]
2014
'The Politics of Framing and Staging. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Performance.' ALLEGRA - A Virtual Lab of Legal Anthropology. 13 Nov. 2014. [Link to article]
'The unethical aesthetic? A commentary on the Gurlitt case'. King's Review. 23 January 2014. [Link to article]
'Ruhrorter - Projekt der Woche #34'. Kultur bildet - Das Portal für kulturelle Bildung (Deutscher Kulturrat e.V.). [Link to article]
Review: Alloa, Emmanuel (2013): Erscheinung und Ereignis. Zur Zeitlichkeit des Bildes. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. Theaterforschung.de. 6 October 2014. [Link]
'Die Eleganz des Unperfekten'. Rezension Tanztheater 'magic lines' im Ringlokschuppen. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 2 June 2014
'Performing Temporality and Refugee Theatre.' Interview ERC-project 'The Aesthetics of Applied Theatre', conducted by Kristin Flade. 25 March 2014.
'Die Freiheit des Theaterspiels'. Sabrina (Teil 4) Weekly column in the daily Westdeutsche Allgemein Zeitung. 28 April 2014.
'Vom Dozenten zum Flüchtling' - Peiman (Teil 3) Weekly column in the daily Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 2 April 2014.
'Leben auf Zeit in Deutschland' - Marvin (Teil 2) Weekly column in the daily Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 14 March 2014.
'Mülheimer Flüchtlinge sehnen sich nach Sicherheit' - Reem (Teil 1) Weekly column in the daily Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. 06 March 2014.
'RUHRORTER - ein neues Kunst- und Theaterprojekt mit Flüchtlingen in Mülheim an der Ruhr'.
Article on the pages of the city of Mülheim an der Ruhr and of the Integration and Participation council. 28 February 2014.
2013
Feature Review Article: ‘40,000 years of Modern Art: A Re-Enactment’ by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. Visual Arts Australia.
'Changing the Wheel: Bertolt Brecht's Stories from the Revolution'. King's Review. 19 March 2013.
‘Patronage and Crisis: German theatre and cultural politics’. King’s Review. 15 February 2013.
‘Review Essay (in English): Nowak, Anja (2012): Elemente einer Ästhetik des Theatralen in Adornos Ästhetischer Theorie. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.’ www.theaterforschung.de. [Link]
2011
'Bertolt Brecht and the theatre of alienation'. Art of the possible. The Cambridge University Journal of Politics. (1): 21-24.