A word from everyday language, self-evident in literary studies, metaphorically used in anthropology, generalized in semiotics, ambivalently circulating in art history and film studies, and shunned in musicology, the concept of [insert own word here] seems to ask for trouble. Bal 2009 21 Faucault establishes in The Order of Things the difficulty and the precarious nature of the ‘human sciences’ and their uncertainty as sciences through “their dangerous familiarity with philosophy, their ill-defined reliance upon other domains of knowledge, their perpetually secondary and derived character, and also their claim to universality”[1]. As a field the humanities proceed in accordance with models or concepts borrowed from biology, economics, and the…
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Being with / the Other, Zurich
organised by Nkule Mabaso and Ashraf Osman as part of Curating Your Context: Each country has its own peculiar brand of identity and other politics, yet ‘culture’ is multilayered and always hybrid and all ‘cultural’ identifications are imaginary, especially so in the digital age. The discussion will revolve around how individual practices approach the question how societal, cultural, political, social,…
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SAME(difference)_sculpture in relation
SAME(difference)_sculpture in relation Kunstkammer AZB Schlieren 2013/2014 Curated by: Tanja Trampe, Anne Koskiluoma, John Canciani, Nkule Mabaso A cultural engagement of the AZB, working collective of sculptors in Zürich This curatorial concept for the Kunstkammer Schlieren 2013/14 intends to explore the notion of sculpture and its potential for transformation. The AZB – an artists collective beginning in the early 1980’s…
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Lecture: Narrative, Memory and Site
In the lecture NARRATIVE, MEMORY AND SITE Prof. Jyoti Mistry looks at the ideas of context in two distinct ways. The first considers the role and place of the “black cube” of film as a communal, collective experience and the implications of the ways in which the “black cube” screening space is increasingly repositioned inside the “white cube” of the…
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Jyoti Mistry: Narrative, Memory, and Site
Jyoti Mistry, Narrative, Memory, and Site. 23 May, Zurich. Museum Baerengasse
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I’ve got your back / Watch your back
Collaborate, Lecture by the esteemed Gabi Ngcobo, Museum Baerengasse, Curate Your Context, Nkule Mabaso (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)