Projects
Projects FNS
Un processus de reconstruction de l'identité. L'exemple de la communauté mapuche Antiñir et Pilquiñan (Neuquén, Argentine)
Bourse de jeune chercheure débutante
Other modernities patrimony and Pratices of Visual Expresion Outside the West Budget global
2013 - 2017
Applicant : Silvia Naef (UNIGE), Irene Maffi, Wendy Shaw (Freie Univ. Berlin)
Bringing together specialists in the fields of Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies, and Art History, this project considers the historiography of arts in the non-West as part of worldwide processes of modernization. Rather than conceiving of the non-Western present against the backdrop of supposedly authentic, homogenous, and undiluted traditions, this project focuses on the historiographic construction of art and visual culture as intertwined agents and expressions of sociopolitical modernization. It proposes art and performance as parallel arenas through which cultural identity comes to be perceived neither as a search for roots nor a striving for Westernization, but as a process of coming-into-being within a framework of shifting cultural and political hegemonies. The project will:
- study the historiographic divergence between the study of pre-modern non-Western arts and the relative inattention paid to the modern era
- examine the political instrumentalization of art as an agent of modernization within the context of broader practices of visual culture
- develop specific case studies to suggest the range of the field and encourage future investment in academic positions and public exhibitions of non-Western modern arts and establish research and teaching on these topic within the academic field and affiliated institutions
- investigate the differential between the stated and apparent objectives of exhibitions of non-Western modern arts and their actual engagement with audiences as measured qualitatively through issues of access
- develop a broader synergy between this project, the public, and institutions with similar interests in Switzerland, Europe and the Middle East, which will serve as a focal case study relying on the expertise of the project leaders.
Others projects
Relève académique. Le doctorat pour quoi ? Entre institutions et parcours. Enquête à lUniversité de Lausanne
Direction, Bureau de légalité des chances et Faculté des SSP de lUniversité de Lausanne
Contracts and Mandates
Projet
Exposition au Musée d'ethnographie, Neuchâtel, Suisse
