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july 17, 2020 - Fondazione Antonio Ratti
Marina Warner, Elective Affinities: the Shaman, a Guest and the Language of Things
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The temporary closure becomes an opportunity for the Foundation to reactivate its archive. Over the past 35 years FAR has presented numerous conferences, workshops, seminars and publications inviting thinkers from different fields: contemporary art, textile history, anthropology, literature and more. Our Rewind project aims to spread and share this amazing resource.
The selected materials, presented on a biweekly basis, range across different times and disciplines, offering a new perspective on themes and ideas that are still relevant today.
Looking back, re-hearing, re-learning become strategies to move forward and the archive is activated as a fundamental tool to imagine ourselves in the future.
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Marina Warner, Elective Affinities: the Shaman, a Guest and the Language of Things
05.07.2007, Archive Fondazione Antonio Ratti
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“This intuition, directly inspired by Burkhardt who discovered in Renaissance festivities a path leading from life to art, was reversed by Warburg who saw in this ceremony the opening of a path leading from art to life” - Philippe-Alain Michaud
Invited during the XIII edition of CSAV - Artists' Research Laboratory, with #joanjonas as Visiting Professor, #marinawarner illustrates the developments of magical thinking in the XX century, in relation to anthropological research and scientific discoveries. The evolution of the figure and the term shaman are thus reflected in the corridors of an ethnographic museum and in the everyday life of children's bestsellers such as Harry Potter or His Dark Matter as well as in artistic practices. In this dense excursus, #marinawarner dialogues with Aby Warburg's intuitions about the ritual snake dance of Hopi Indians, the same followed by #joanjonas for her performance The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things. It is therefore the ability of the ritual to dialogue with other worlds and dimensions, that reveals "the true language of art: the flight of the shaman's mind".
Marina Warner (1946, London) is a writer and historian specialized in myths and fairy tales. Among her publications on the topic are Phantasmagoria (2006), Stranger Magic: Charmed States & The Arabian Nights (2011), Once Upon a Time - A Short History of Fairy Tale (2014) and Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists (2018). She has taught at the University of Essex and is now Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birbeck, University of London, as well as being the first woman President of the Royal Society of Literature. Commenting on her work, she writes: "Stories come from the past, but speak to the present and I have found that I need to write stories as well as deconstruct them and place them in historical context, because I myself love works works of imagination and would like to be able to join the conversation with admired predecessors, who range from Apuleio to Virginia Woolf, Italo Calvino and Angela Carter”.
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