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Neuerscheinung: "String Figures" - Ausstellungsbuch
Das Ausstellungsbuch zur vergangenen Ausstellung "String Figures/Fadenspiele" im Museum Tinguely, kuratiert von Sarine Waltenspül und Mario Schulze, ist erschienen.
Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, loops of string make shapes. String figures can do many things: they tell stories, they pass the time, they make the unsayable showable, they connect people. As one of humanity’s oldest cultural practices, they have inspired artists, anthropologists, and theorists. String figures have been studied as an aesthetic practice, collected as artifacts, and considered as a non-Western way of thinking. The book brings together these diverse threads, weaving connections across world regions and disciplines to re:search, re:define, and re:signify the past and present of a beautiful and complex cultural practice. It looks at ways of playing together on the ruins of our history.
With contributions by:
Paul Basu, Stephan Claassen, Seraina Dür and Jonas Gillmann, Mareile Flitsch, Moritz Greiner-Petter, Rainer Hatoum, Ute Holl, Ines Kleesattel, Moya Lawson, Robyn McKenzie, Nasser Mufti, David Ket’acik Nicolai, Andres Pardey, Adam Piron, Andrea Scholz and Diana Guzmán Mirigõ, Mario Schulze, Mark Sherman, Rani Singh, Ellen Spielmann, Henry Adam Svec, Lynton Talbot, Eric Vandendriessche, Maria Julia Fernandes Vicentin, Sarine Waltenspül, and photos by Christoph Oeschger.
Link to the publisher here.