String Figures: A Cultural Practice between Art, Anthropology, and Theory [electronic resource].

Diaphanes 2025

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Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, lengths 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. Whatever else they may be, they have often been explored by artists, ethnologists and theorists: as an aesthetic practice, as something to collect, as a non-Western way of thinking. In recent years, string figures have gained prominence in cultural theory. Donna Haraway promotes string figures as a method of thinking and collaboration between both disciplines and species. Rather than the technicist and rigid metaphor of the network, Haraway’s string figures provide a playful, process-oriented, embodied, performative (and non-Western) mode of thought in which responsibility and collaboration are foregrounded. Looking at ways of playing together on the ruins of our history the publication brings together different threads and seeks to weave connections between world regions and disciplines.
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Mario Schulze
Sarine Waltenspül
Robyn McKenzie
Paul Basu
Rainer Hatoum
Eric Vandendriessche
Mareile Flitsch
Rani Singh
Henry Adam Svec
Ines Kleesattel
Seraina Dür
Jonas Gillmann
David Ket'acik Nicolai
Adam Piron
Diana Guzmán Mirigõ
Andrea Scholz
Andres Pardey
Mark Sherman
Ellen Spielmann
Maria Julia Fernandes Vicentin
Moritz Greiner-Petter
Stephan Claassen
Moya Lawson
Nasser Mufti
Ute Holl
Lynton Talbot
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