Lehrende: Philipp Schorch
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Orga-Einheit: 03-Ethnologie
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung: The two main intellectual domains through which material and visual cultures have been studied and exhibited are anthropology and art. Both fields exist separately within the academic and museum worlds, but interactions and overlaps have begun to emerge. What happens, then, when both disciplinary and curatorial mechanism are blended, or when anthropological investigations are artistically performed and art is seen, not as a purely aesthetic exercise, but as a complex human expression exposed to, and constitutive of, history with political efficacy? Moreover, what happens when such an expression exceeds the explanatory frameworks of anthropology and art altogether? This course addresses these questions through case studies and methodological interventions. The course will be taught in English, and will offer different formats of participation. Students are encouraged to use the seminars to advance experimental thinking and doing deriving from past, and serving future field research.
