“Reading” The Book at Exhibitions of Contemporary Global Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 182-200
Author(s):  
Anna Sigrídur Arnar
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Hybrid Models ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
International Exhibitions ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Venice Biennale ◽  
Models Of Reading ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines sculptural bookworks in the arena of contemporary global art. This genre has presented critics with unique hermeneutic challenges because as sculptural objects or installation environments, they typically defy one of the fundamental features of the codex: sequentiality of pages and by extension, normative reading. By presenting several case studies from perennial international exhibitions such as documenta (in Kassel, Germany) and the Venice Biennale, I consider hybrid models of “reading” bookworks that acknowledge the inherently social nature of books as migratory objects, rather than as static artworks on display. As Leah Price demonstrates, books aren’t always read as texts, but rather as participants in rituals of social exchange that “broker or buffer” relations between people. Similarly, many contemporary artists define books as dynamic vehicles that circulate between varied audiences and historical contexts, thereby accumulating, dismantling, and generating multiple meanings, formats, and identities along the way.

Christianity and Sports: Religious Functionaries and Charismatic Prophets in Ghana Soccer

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-259
Author(s):  
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
The Way

This paper examines the way in which, within an African religious and spiritual context, athletes – and in particular footballers of Ghana – employ religious functionaries and religious means from a variety of traditions in an attempt to achieve sporting success. Specific examples and case studies illustrate and contextualise this search. The connections of this mode of searching for success with traditional African views of causality and with a Pentecostalist/charismatic prosperity ethic are explored, and its consequences are assessed.

The Role of Music and Allied Arts in Public Writings on Cultural Diversity: “People of Sri Lanka”

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 93-100
Author(s):  
Gisa Jähnichen
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
The World ◽  
Official Languages ◽  
The Way

The Sri Lankan Ministry of National Coexistence, Dialogue, and Official Languages published the work “People of Sri Lanka” in 2017. In this comprehensive publication, 21 invited Sri Lankan scholars introduced 19 different people’s groups to public readers in English, mainly targeted at a growing number of foreign visitors in need of understanding the cultural diversity Sri Lanka has to offer. This paper will observe the presentation of these different groups of people, the role music and allied arts play in this context. Considering the non-scholarly design of the publication, a discussion of the role of music and allied arts has to be supplemented through additional analyses based on sources mentioned by the 21 participating scholars and their fragmented application of available knowledge. In result, this paper might help improve the way facts about groups of people, the way of grouping people, and the way of presenting these groupings are displayed to the world beyond South Asia. This fieldwork and literature guided investigation should also lead to suggestions for ethical principles in teaching and presenting of culturally different music practices within Sri Lanka, thus adding an example for other case studies.

Art and Global South: “Playing Venice” at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB)

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Ciotti
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
South India ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Global South ◽  
Art World ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Origin Identity ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Venice Biennale ◽  
New Location

AbstractThis article employs artifacts from the KMB’s “material culture” as a lens into this institution’s branding process and, within it, its interaction with the Venice Biennale. It analyzes larger questions about the career of the biennale cultural form as it re-territorializes in a new location that is added to the art world map “in progress.” Historically, geographical location has been crucial for many biennales in the Global South to articulate their origin, identity, and claims vis-à-vis the global art world. Moreover, biennale proliferation especially in the South has produced cartographic re-imaginings aiming to destabilize the “center-periphery” configuration of the art world map. The article shows that the KMB does not reiterate ideological standings put forward by Southern biennales but crafts its positionality on different grounds. These entail simultaneously anchoring the KMB to histories of circulation in and out of South India tracing back at least two millennia and strategically weaving a relation with the archetypical Venice Biennale in the present.

scholarly journals The Persistence of Primitivism: Equivocation in Ernesto Neto’s A Sacred Place and Critical Practice

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Camila Maroja
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art History ◽  
Native People ◽  
Amazon Rainforest ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Environmental Work ◽  
Global Art ◽  
Venice Biennale

During the 2017 Venice Biennale, the area dubbed the “Pavilion of the Shamans” opened with A Sacred Place, an immersive environmental work created by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto in collaboration with the Huni Kuin, a native people of the Amazon rainforest. Despite the co-authorship of the installation, the artwork was dismissed by art critics as engaging in primitivism and colonialism. Borrowing anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro’s concept of equivocation, this article examines the incorporation of both indigenous and contemporary art practices in A Sacred Place. The text ultimately argues that a more equivocal, open interpretation of the work could lead to a better understanding of the work and a more self-reflexive global art history that can look at and learn from at its own comparative limitations.

Knowledge Management: Case Studies in SMEs and Evaluation of an Integrated Approach

2005 ◽  
Vol 04 (02) ◽  
pp. 95-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuan Yew Wong ◽  
Elaine Aspinwall
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Business Sector ◽  
Integrated Framework ◽  
Implementation Effort ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Way

To date, very few publications have been found that describe how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are adopting knowledge management (KM). The same is true concerning attempts to develop a framework to help them implement it. To redress this, this paper presents the results of four case studies conducted in UK SMEs to examine their KM implementation effort. In addition, a new integrated framework developed by the authors was evaluated to determine its applicability in this business sector. The methodology employed to conduct the studies is described and each of the cases is then presented. The results are analysed and key lessons or findings gathered from the companies are highlighted. Comments received from the companies with respect to the integrated framework were positive and favourable. It is hoped that the information accrued from the case studies, together with the integrated framework, will help to pave the way for SMEs to accomplish KM.

Molecular Epigenetics: Chemical Biology Tools Come of Age

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 287-320
Author(s):  
John D. Bagert ◽  
Tom W. Muir
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Epigenetic Regulation ◽  
Genetic Information ◽  
Chemical Biology ◽  
Molecular Tools ◽  
Covalent Structure ◽  
Dna Components ◽  
The Way

The field of epigenetics has exploded over the last two decades, revealing an astonishing level of complexity in the way genetic information is stored and accessed in eukaryotes. This expansion of knowledge, which is very much ongoing, has been made possible by the availability of evermore sensitive and precise molecular tools. This review focuses on the increasingly important role that chemistry plays in this burgeoning field. In an effort to make these contributions more accessible to the nonspecialist, we group available chemical approaches into those that allow the covalent structure of the protein and DNA components of chromatin to be manipulated, those that allow the activity of myriad factors that act on chromatin to be controlled, and those that allow the covalent structure and folding of chromatin to be characterized. The application of these tools is illustrated through a series of case studies that highlight how the molecular precision afforded by chemistry is being used to establish causal biochemical relationships at the heart of epigenetic regulation.

Privacy and libraries in the case of Japan

IFLA Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuyo Inoue
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Asian Nation ◽  
Background Context ◽  
The Way

This essay introduces the concept of privacy from the perspective of the East Asian nation of Japan. Firstly, it provides background context to how privacy is viewed in the country; then it discusses relevant legislative approaches to the protection of privacy in Japan. It goes on to discuss privacy in relation to its relevance to libraries, illustrated with two case studies, before concluding with some suggestions as to the way forward in Japan.

scholarly journals Resisting the Pressures of the Global Art Market

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Marko Saranovic
Keyword(s):  
Art Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
The University ◽  
Global Art ◽  
The Way

A student essay for the Special Student Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology accompanying the art exhibition 'Artist's Waste, Wasted Artists', which opened in Vienna on the 19th of September 2017 and was curated by the students of social anthropology at the University of Vienna. This essays discusses the pressures of the global art market on artists, as well as the way in which the price of an artwork in the art market came to stand for its quality, rather than the other way round. Using the case of the Viennese artist Christian Ruschitzka, the essay suggest that there is some resistance and genuine critique possible, but only under certain conditions.

scholarly journals Fragile Visions of the Social: Rethinking Solidarity with the Performance Piece Faust and the TV-series Skam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Schumann
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Venice Biennale ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe paper explores the portrayal of social relations among youth in the popular Norwegian TV-series Skam and places this analysis in relation to Anne Imhof’s award-winning performance piece Faust, which received the Golden Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale for the German Pavilion. As expressions of how today’s youth experience social relations under the conditions of late capitalism, I examine the way in which the TV-series and the performance work respectively explore when and how ‘we’ is shaped. I argue that they provide particular insight into the limits and possibilities for the formation of relations of solidarity today.

Women Driven Mobility: Rethinking the Way the World Moves

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Shaw ◽  
Katelyn Davis
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Leadership Roles ◽  
Technology And Innovation ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The World ◽  
Community Advocacy ◽  
The Way

Where do women fit into the automotive industry? In every possible space-including those they have yet to invent! As Katelyn Shelby Davis and Kristin Shaw demonstrate in Women Driven Mobility, women are in leadership roles in all aspects of the industry. Davis and Shaw seek bring awareness and reroute this through a series of case studies that feature women working in 11 vital pillars of the mobility industry: Awareness and community advocacy Design and engineering Funding Infrastructure Marketing and communications Mobility on demand Placemaking Policy and legislation Sustainability Talent and education Technology and innovation Foreword by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, State of Michigan

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