Oceanic art

35 000 Werke des Louvre wurden aus Erdgeschoss und Keller in höhere Regionen transportiert, weil die Seine in beachtlicher Höhe in ihrem steinernen Bett durch Paris rauschte. Relativ rasch konnte das Museum dann aber auch wieder geöffnet werden. Die Kulturministerin Audrey Azoulay versprach per Twitter finanzielle Hilfe zur Behebung der Flutschäden. Den Besucherstrom hat das nur kurz unterbrochen. Seit den Terroranschlägen weniger frequentiert, meldet der Louvre dennoch gesunde Zahlen...

Natürlich sollte ein Artikel über die kommende Auktion von Artcurial in Paris nicht mit dem anfangen, was fehlt. Auch sollte nicht über Ausstellungen berichtet werden, die bereits vorbei sind. Hier ist es anders: Hier ist Fluxus. Ben Patterson, 80, einer der Pioniere der Bewegung voll luzidem Humor, hat- te bis Anfang März in der „Fondation du doute“ zwanzig Lichtschalter ausgestellt. An deren Ende: schrill gebastelte Lampen mit bunten Figürchen vom Flohmarkt: „Musen“. Die Anweisung „Press here to turn on your muse“ war auch Titel der Schau.

The author of this paper studied 59 perforated stone objects in the Oceania collection of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. The items stem from the former British and German New Guinea colonies. For
most objects, detailed information on the exact place of origin is not available. Therefore, the aim of the present review could be nothing more than a more or less complete description of the objects and an approximate assessment based on the abundant ethnographic literature available on the territory of Papua New Guinea. Since the studied objects are primarily club heads made of stone, it is, therefore, necessary to clarify the technological issues related to the manufacturing of these stones, their typological classification, and their morphometric measurements.

Es ging um viel Geld. Dreißig Millionen Dollar sollten ausgezahlt werden. John wollte möglichst die Sammlung bewahren. Das gelang nicht. 401 Stücke gingen schließlich an das Museum. Davon mussten 2009 – um Schulden zu begleichen – schon 76 „geringfügige Objekte“ versteigert werden.

The cultural technologies of gender, race and empire drive much of the present Anthropocene crisis, now and in the past. Everyday algorithms reproduce and multiply our cultural biases on a global scale. Anthropocentrism, humanistic supremacy and individualistic territorialism are rampant, making us all less humane. Society awakes slowly from the modern illusion of categorical identities and divides that keep nature from culture, human from animal, environment from embodiment, technology from biology and arts from science and society. The argument here is for taking stock of ways of cyborg knowing-also beyond the academic confines. It is time for new knowledge integrations forged in intellectual generosity. The cyborg, as a discipline-crossing figure, proposed theorypractices and practice-theories for how to readjust our high consumption, high energy and hyper-instrumental society, and ourselves, adaptively. In this piece, I proposed that feminist STS and cyborg knowing work as a prominent entry into the transformative multiverse of feminist posthumanities in practice.A ARTICLE HISTORY

As mariculture-the cultivation of aquatic organisms in marine environment-intensifies to meet the demands of sustainable blue growth and national policies, novel ethical challenges will arise. In the context of ethics, primary concerns over aquaculture and mariculture tend to stay within differing value-based perspectives focused on benefits to human and non-human subjects, specifically animal welfare and animal rights. Nonetheless, the burgeoning field of feminist blue humanities provides ethical considerations that extend beyond animal subjects (including humans), often because of its concerns with new materialist, posthumanist, and other relations-based theories. This article examines feminist blue humanities and the contributions it may bring to understanding contemporary and future ethical challenges posed by mariculture and its intensification, especially the cultivation of low-trophic organisms. By offering an overview of feminist blue humanities, this article explores some of its particularities by drawing out three major ethical concerns facing contemporary mariculture, specifically material reconfigurations, radical alteration of the lives of low-trophic species through industrialization and increases in maricultural waste products.

Thomas More’s Utopia is often discussed as a moral allegory. This article, however, argues for reading it as an economic allegory. This reading is supported by More’s modern Christian humanist context, which both influences and is critiqued by More’s image of Utopian society. From this perspective, Utopia reflects the tensions present at the time between the economic progress of the early modern era and the lingering values of its medieval Christian heritage.

Artist projects from around and across the Pacific, including significant collaborative projects by Pacific Islander artists form a significant part of the contemporary response to work of Henri Matisse in the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ exhibition Matisse Alive which opened on 23 October 2021. It is a colourful and large accompaniment to the major Matisse: Life & Spirit, Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris exhibition.

Unglaublich, wie nachlässig wenig man auf Ortsspezifik und Kon- text geachtet hat. Unglaublich auch, mit wieviel Redundanz das schon in den ersten Sälen ausreichend darge- legte Thema der „intensiven Nähe“ zwischen europäischen und außer- europäischen Kulturen breit gewalzt wird. Ein Scheitern auf ganzer Linie.

Within literature, history, politics, philosophy and theology, the interpretation of utopian ideals has evolved constantly. Juxtaposing historical views on utopian diagnoses, prescriptions and on the character and value of utopian thought with more modern interpretations, this volume explores how our ideal utopia has transformed over time. Challenging long-held interpretations, the contributors turn a fresh eye to canonical texts, and open them up to a twenty-first century audience. From Moore's Utopia to Le Guin's The Dispossessed, Utopian Moments puts forward a lively and accessible debate on the nature and significance of utopian thought and tradition. Each essay focuses on a key passage from the selected work using it to encourage both the specialist and the reader new to the field to read afresh. Written by an international team of leading scholars, the essays range from the sixteenth century to the present day and are designed to be both stimulating and accessible.

Fäuste statt Liebe, so scheint das Motto dieses Kunstherbsts in Paris zu sein. Und wer bei der Eröffnung in der Galerie Yvon Lambert aufgepasst hat, konnte vielleicht eines der Multiples ergattern, die die indische Künstlerin Shilpa Gupta verschenkte. Ein großes braunes Stück stark duftender Seife, in die ein Wort geprägt ist, wie man es besser zum Grippewahn nicht wählen könnte: THREAT. Also, immer schön die Hände waschen beim Mes- serummel und genießen sie die herbstlichen Champagnerbäder!

Ideen sind gefragt, besonders wenn es ein wenig eng wird. Phillips de Pury & Co macht in London nun einmal pro Monat Auktionen mit zeitgenössischer Kunst und Design, begleitet von eindrucksvollen Katalogen mit Interviews und gescheiten Texten. Ein Novum, das durchaus Schule machen könnte. "Now", die erste Versteigerung, verlief durchaus vielversprechend.

Es ist an sich schon ein Ereignis: Dora Maar - eine der bekanntesten Angehörigen des Pariser Surrealisten-Zirkels um André Breton und schon damals als inspirierte, feinsinnige Fotografin gelobt - wird erstmals eigenständig bei einer Auktion präsentiert.

The arƟcle also pointed to the reluctance that many younger sociologists experience in being associated with the long-infamous culture of poverty framework, popularized by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1965. The Times got it wrong on one important count; the culture of poverty ...

This work examines the nature of frames that restrict our perspectives and thus give birth to such sociological entities like societies, communities and nations. How is the dualism of “inside-outside” created on sociological and psychic levels? More importantly, what instruments play what kind of roles in the creation of that dualism? Examining the formation of Ottoman subjectivity as a case, this study gives original answers to these questions. The psychoanalytic theory, which opened a new methodological domain for the social sciences in the past century, productively accommodated a good amount of works on these questions. Sigmund Freud’s pioneering works on the dynamics of human psyche and Jacques Lacan’s theories of human subjectivity played important roles in the improvement of this domain. Beginning from the second half of the past century, discussions on identity and belonging, as well as such furious social questions as nationalism, racism and xenophobia, have been held in th...

The author of this paper had the opportunity to study the bored stone objects in the Oceania collection of the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. Among the collectors of the objects, the names of Sámuel Fenichel, Lajos Bíró and Count Rudolf Festetics should be highlighted. The objects include 58 objects from the territory of the former British and German colony of New Guinea, and a stone club from New Zealand. In the case of the vast majority of objects, more detailed information on the exact place of origin is not available. Due to the lack of information, the purpose of this paper is partly an approximate evaluation of the processing results of the objects, and partly a brief general overview of New Guinean stone clubs, based on the available ethnographic literature from New Guinea and New Zealand.

On the labour demand side, in order to identify the match between skills and labour market demand, it is required a thorough analysis of structure and dynamic of specialists in an economic sector. The data necessary for this kind of analysis could not be found in the current statistical databases. Accordingly, it is necessary to carry out surveys for exploring the demand for skills. This study presents the main elements to be taken into account in designing of questionnaires necessary for analysing the demand of specialists in an economic sector, in particular for the domain of information and communication technologies (ICT). The surveys will focus on two main issues: past and future evolution of number of workers and problems in matching demand with qualifications supply. Thus, the analysis should concentrate on structure and evolution of number of workers at entreprise-level; practices and problems met in recruitment process, namely qualifications deficits and gaps 􀍴 any of these...

This article examines two examples of fanfiction on oceanic mythologies: 'Another day, another offering' by sweetbydesign (2021), about Posideaja, and 'Mami Wata' by lucien_cramp (2021). Through both stories, age-old archetypes of mermaid goddesses are harnessed for the environmental agenda. In their fannish rewritings, the authors inverse many Romantic mermaid tropes to empower the mermaid and to confirm the connection between the mermaid and oceanic awareness. Moreover, in their latest remediations, Posideaja's and Mami Wata's bodies go against widespread standards for physical beauty and for fitness (i.e. functionality, such as being fit for labour). As such, these two updated mermaids open up a wide range of possibilities for identification and inspiration for their creators as well as their audiences. With their new representations of Posideaja and Mami Wata, the authors thus address two interconnected problems: the oppression of women (in terms of beauty and fitness norms) and the environmental damage done to the oceans (in terms of the acidification of oceans, increases in ocean temperatures and rising sea-levels).

The present thesis is concerned with problems of aesthetic and symbolic interpretation presented by the analysis of the graphic signs carved on the prows of the ceremonial canoes of Kitawa, one of the so-called kula ring islands (Milne Bay, Melanesia). These canoes are specially made for periodic ritual voyages to other islands in search of valuable objects.;The analysis is based on two periods of field-work in Kitawa (undertaken in 1973-74 and 1976) in the course of which the author learnt the principal language of the island and recorded his discussions with the local carvers about their art. The most important of these sound recordings have been transcribed, analysed and translated, and the texts are submitted as an appendix to the thesis.;In his analysis of the prows the author has adapted the Danish linguist L. Hjelmslev's theory on the structure of a sign to make it appropriate for aesthetic and symbolic interpretation. He is also indebted to the work of J. Mukarovsk.;of t...

“Te Reo o te Kākahu”, ‘the voice/ language/ story of the cloak’ encompassed for the first time western scientific research alongside Māori knowledge to explore the origins and evolution of Māori feather cloak making. The research acknowledged the layers of information contained within the terminologies, whakapapa (genealogy), and tikanga (customs) associated with cloak production, and more specifically the knowledge contained in the use of birds and feathers. This thesis focussed on recovering and recording iwi knowledge pertaining to how feather cloaks have been made and used in Māori customs and traditions over time. Additionally, the research created areas of new knowledge by utilising scientific techniques to verify materials in order to tell the full history of Māori feather cloaks from an integrated scientific and Māori perspective.

The arƟcle also pointed to the reluctance that many younger sociologists experience in being associated with the long-infamous culture of poverty framework, popularized by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1965. The Times got it wrong on one important count; the culture of poverty ...

Collections at the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology include a vast array of ethnographic and archaeological artifacts and archival images from several Latin American countries. These objects, as well as other resources, are currently the focus of a new educational website that explores past and present Latin American civilizations, their cultural heritage, and influence on contemporary ways of life in British Columbia. The website, entitled jHola Canada! The Latin American Collections at the Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, aims at disseminating archaeological knowledge through different media, including photographic archives, texts, videos and interactive games. It is sponsored by the Canada Culture Online program of the Department of Canadian Heritage whose main goal is to promote Canadian presence on the internet. It was realized with the collaboration of many institutions including the Simon Fraser University museum, the Arc...

Following the Rio Summit of 1992, two international organizations namely the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) were empowered to perform special tasks. The former was to gather scientific information on climate change and the latter to facilitate consensus among countries to stabilize greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere so as not to further aggravate global warming. Carbon dioxide constitutes about 75% of the GHGs, the rest being composed of three other types of gases. It is now well recognized that no country will be immune from the impacts of climate change. The most seriously affected will be the LMICs. Sea level rise will impact adversely upon small islands and river-delta regions. Increases in tropical cyclones and in drought conditions in arid areas of the tropical LMICs will be experienced frequently. Major flooding can be expected with greater frequency which will not only affect food supply but ...

As the planet’s largest ecosystem, oceans stabilise climate, produce oxygen, store CO2 and host unfathomable biodiversity at a deep time-scale. In recent decades, scientific assessments have indicated that the oceans are seriously degraded to the detriment of most near-future societies. Human-induced impacts range from climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, eutrophication and marine pollution to local degradation of marine and coastal environments. Such environmental violence takes form of both ‘spectacular’ events, like oil spills and ‘slow violence’, occurring gradually and out of sight. The purpose of this paper is to show four cases of coastal and marine forms of slow violence and to provide counter-accounts of how to reinvent our consumer imaginary at such locations, as well as to develop what is here referred to as ‘low-trophic theory,’ a situated ethical stance that attends to entanglements of consumption, food, violence, environmental adaptability and more-than-human care from the co-existential perspective of multispecies ethics. We combine field-philosophical case studies with insights from marine science, environmental art and cultural practices in the Baltic and North Sea region and feminist posthumanities. The paper shows that the oceanic imaginary is not a unified place, but rather, a set of forces, which requires renewed ethical approaches, conceptual inventiveness and practical creativity. Based on the case studies and examples presented, the authors conclude that the consideration of more-than-human ethical perspectives, provided by environmental arts and humanities is crucial for both research on nature and space, and for the flourishing of local multispecies communities. This paper thus inaugurates thinking and practice along the proposed here ethical stance of low-trophic theory, developed it along the methodological lines of feminist environmental posthumanities.