publications

1. Monographs

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Micro-utopias. Connections in anthropology, art, relationality and creativity (special issue)

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3. journal articles

2025
’Un’antropologia spettropolitica. Dal museo del mondo al situazionismo mondano’. Roots § Routes. Research on Visual Cultures 47 (Jan-April 2025). (English: An anthropological spectropolitics. From the museum of world to worldly situationism).

​https://www.roots-routes.org/una-antropologia-spettropolitica-dal-museo-del-mondo-al-situazionismo-mondano-di-jonas-tinius/
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).

http://www.jonastinius.com/uploads/1/7/6/7/17674217/tiniius_villa_romana_art_e_dossier.pdf
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
2021
‘Il palazzo dell dubbio’. Art e Dossier. Sept. 2021. Number 390: 38–43. ​(Eng. The Palace of Doubt). LINK 
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
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.
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
2018  
'Capacity for Character: Fiction, Ethics, and the Anthropology of Conduct'. ​Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 26 (3): 345-360. LINK
​2017    
'Art as ethical practice: anthropological observations on and beyond theatre'. World Art 7(2): 227-251. LINK
2016    
‘Authenticity and otherness: reflecting statelessness in German postmigrant theatre’. Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques. 14 (2016). LINK
2016​
‘Palace coups: Reconstructing History in the Heart of Berlin'. Co-authored with Prof Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll. Calvert Journal. June 2016. ​Link
2016
​‘Rehearsing detachment: refugee theatre and dialectical fiction’. Journal of Art and Anthropology/Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. 5(1): 21-38. Link to pdf
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
2015   ​
‘Institutional formations and artistic critique in German ensemble theatre’. Performance Research. 20 (4): 72-78. Link
2015
‘Authorisation’. Performance Research. 20 (4): 129. Link
2015​
‚Was für ein Theater! Überlegungen zum Spielfeld zwischen ethnographischer Praxis und performativer Kunst’. Berliner Blätter. Ethnographische und Ethnologische Beiträge. 68/2015: 30-42. Link
2015
‘Erinnern und Vergessen’. Infodienst. Das Magazin für kulturelle Bildung. 115: 37. Link
2014
‘Art in Adorno’s Ethical Thought: Negative Utopias in a Wrong Life’. Cambridge Humanities Review. 5-9. Download pdf

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‘Engaging Anthropology and Art’. Anthropology Today. 30 (6): 22-23. ​Link

2014 
‘Die schmutzige Kulturmetropole. Überlegungen zu Industrie, Kunst und Gesellschaft im Ruhrgebiet. Fensterplatz. Zeitschrift für Kulturforschung. 2012 (4). Link​​
2012
‘UrSprünge: das Feld zwischen Theater und Anthropologie’. Brink. Magazin zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft. (2): 6-9. Link

4. book chapters

2024 
‘The Trouble with Art in Anthropology’ (Introduction), in: The Trouble with Art. Anthropology Beyond Philistinism, edited with Roger Sansi. London: Routledge, pp. 1–16. 
 
‘What Has Theatre Ever Done for Us? Traditions of Anti-theatricality’, in: The Trouble with Art. Anthropology Beyond Philistinism, edited with Roger Sansi. London: Routledge, pp. 35–61. 
2024
‘Existential Present: The Moment as a Way in to Humanity (Introduction, co-authored with the Minor Universality ERC Research Team), in: Universalism(e) & … Conversations, edited by the Minor Universality ERC Research Team. Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 1–8. 
2024   
​‘Untranslatable Play: Experiments in / of Public Culture’, in: Radical Playbook: From Competition to Collaboration, edited by Berliner Festspiele and Gropius Bau (eds). Berlin: Berliner Festspiele, pp. 90-95. [also published in German as “Unübersetzbares Spiel. Experimente öffentlicher Kultur”]
2024
‘Fieldwork as Method in Theatre and Performance Studies’, in: The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies, edited by Tracy C. Davis and Paul Rae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 188–210. ​
2023
‘On Minor Universality', in: Minor Universality. Rethinking Humanity After Western Universalism, edited by Markus Messling and Jonas Tinius. Boston / New York: De Gruyter pp. 1–31.
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.
2022   
‘Dis-Othering Diversity: troubling differences in a Berlin-Brussels Afropolitan curatorial collaboration’, in: Sharon Macdonald. Ed. Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage. A Berlin Ethnography. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 158–172.
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.

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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. ​

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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. 
 
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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.

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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.
​​​2018    
‘Alterity’, in: Tinius et al. Otherwise: Rethinking Museums and Heritage. Berlin: CARMAH, pp. 40–54.

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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.

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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.

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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
​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 
​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. 

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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.]
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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
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
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.

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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

5. reviews, essays, interviews

2024   

‘Foreigners Nowhere (Stranieri da Nessuna Parte). Una riflessione sulla curatela della Biennale di Venezia'. Machina Rivista (October 2024). https://www.machina-deriveapprodi.com/post/foreigners-nowhere-stranieri-da-nessuna-parte 

‘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. 
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‘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.