5 documents
e-flux
Posted: May 3, 2023
Category
Education, Museums
Subjects
Curating, Modernity, Exhibition Histories, Decolonization, History, Art History
# 59
A Critique of Animation
Anselm Franke
In 2014, Harun Farocki was beginning work on a film project on Marey and Muybridge and the origins of cinema. The last thing I received from him was a DVD copy of a wonderful but obscure Thom Andersen film on Muybridge from the 1970s.
The body in movement: this project would have been a logical continuation of his work, an explication of a concern with “life” and its mobilization and reconstructibility that was already implicit in most of his films. More specifically, this new work…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2014
Subjects
Animation & Cartoons, Death, Documentary
# 36
Introduction—“Animism”
Anselm Franke
For the Summer 2012 issue of e-flux journal we are very pleased to present a special “Animism” issue guest-edited by Anselm Franke, curator of the exhibition by the same name. Even if you missed Animism on tour in Europe since it began at Extra City and MUHKA in Antwerp in 2010, you have probably learned of its encompassing mobilization of the systems of inclusion and exclusion defining “science” and “culture.” The various stages of the exhibition have shown the discourse of animism to be…
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Subjects
Animism, Editorial
# 36
Animism: Notes on an Exhibition
Anselm Franke
The exhibition Animism sets out to provide a different context for reflecting on an old topic in the theory of art, one that has considerable reverberations in the present: the question of animation. Rather than investigating the effect of animation merely within the registers of aesthetics—for instance, by presenting a collection of artworks exemplifying different ways of achieving the effect of life or the lifelike within a field demarcated by the dialectics of movement and stasis—this…
e-flux Journal
Posted: July 1, 2012
Category
Contemporary Art, Museums, Philosophy
Subjects
Animism, Exhibition Histories, Epistemology
# 08
Across the Rationalist Veil
Anselm Franke
Many recent works of art hold undoubtedly close ties to anthropology, resembling reverse ethnography or neo-ethnography, taking the form of research that embraces anthropology’s sociological methods, adopting documentary techniques or borrowing from such genres as the travelogue. Anthropology, on the other hand, is currently engaged in renewed debates over the discipline’s roots as reflected in its contemporary “politics.” These controversies, involving politics, ethics (both disciplinary…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2009
Category
Contemporary Art, Anthropology & Ethnography, Modernism, Colonialism & Imperialism
Subjects
Modernity, Protests & Demonstrations, Europe