Relating the Story of Things

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Main Author: Patricia Allmer
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Language:English
Published: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2011-08-01
Series:Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
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Online Access:http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/157
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Relating the Story of Things
Image and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative
Anthropology, Deleuze, exhibition, involution, narrative, object, representation
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description <p align="left"> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Abstract</span></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">: The act and practise of relating is a key element in developing narratives. This essay will explore the interplay and connections between relating and narrating, and the possibilities of producing alternative narratives, independent from hierarchical structures located in linearity, causality and genealogy, by exploring what Gilles Deleuze termed ‘involution,’ as an alternative device of relating. This essay will explore and exemplify this, by focusing on artistic and curatorial strategies of the artist/curators Carson & Miller in the exhibition </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The Story of Things</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">. This exhibition’s re-organisation of anthropological and ethnographic objects challenges the conventional and traditional representation of such objects in linear and genealogical ways. Curatorial and artistic strategies of display, such as unconventional juxtapositions, slight shifts of the constituent parts of objects, and incongruous combinations of them will be examined. The essay will argue that such strategies are effective in establishing new modes of narrative organisation and new products of combination and juxtaposition. </span></span></p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><font size="3"><p>Résumé:</p></font></strong></span><p> </p></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">L'art et la pratique de lier sont des données capitales dans le développement de n'importe quel récit. Dans cette étude, on voudrait examiner les rapports et le dialogue entre ces deux aspects (récit et mise en relation), puis s'interroger sur les manières possibles de produire des formes de récit non classiques, indépendantes des structures hiérarchiques fixées par les notions de linéarité, causalité et généalogie mais informées par la notion deleuzienne d</span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">'involution </span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">comme technique non canonique de mise en rapport. La présente étude compte explorer et exemplifier cette approche en s'appuyant sur les stratégies artistiques et les choix d'exhibition des Carson & Miller dans l'exposition </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The Story of Things</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">. La manière dont cette exposition réorganise les objets anthropologiques et ethnographiques est un défi aux techniques conventionnelles et traditionnelles de représentation linéaire et généalogique de ce genre d'objets. Les choix artistiques et organisationnels qui ont été faits pour exposer les objets, comme par exemple les juxtapositions non stéréotypées, l'accentuation de certaines parties de l'objet plutôt que d'autres et les combinaisons apparemment incongrues, seront au coeur de l'analyse. L'article se propose de démonter que ces stratégies peuvent contribuer efficacement à la création de nouvelles formes d'organisation narrative et de nouveaux modes de combinaison et de juxtaposition d'objets.</span></span>
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spelling doaj-ddc7cfcada5f4fc4ad8ecb7eb19e936c2021-08-02T05:41:22ZengKatholieke Universiteit LeuvenImage and Narrative : Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative1780-678X2011-08-01123521Relating the Story of ThingsPatricia Allmer<p align="left"> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Abstract</span></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">: The act and practise of relating is a key element in developing narratives. This essay will explore the interplay and connections between relating and narrating, and the possibilities of producing alternative narratives, independent from hierarchical structures located in linearity, causality and genealogy, by exploring what Gilles Deleuze termed ‘involution,’ as an alternative device of relating. This essay will explore and exemplify this, by focusing on artistic and curatorial strategies of the artist/curators Carson & Miller in the exhibition </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The Story of Things</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">. This exhibition’s re-organisation of anthropological and ethnographic objects challenges the conventional and traditional representation of such objects in linear and genealogical ways. Curatorial and artistic strategies of display, such as unconventional juxtapositions, slight shifts of the constituent parts of objects, and incongruous combinations of them will be examined. The essay will argue that such strategies are effective in establishing new modes of narrative organisation and new products of combination and juxtaposition. </span></span></p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><font size="3"><p>Résumé:</p></font></strong></span><p> </p></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">L'art et la pratique de lier sont des données capitales dans le développement de n'importe quel récit. Dans cette étude, on voudrait examiner les rapports et le dialogue entre ces deux aspects (récit et mise en relation), puis s'interroger sur les manières possibles de produire des formes de récit non classiques, indépendantes des structures hiérarchiques fixées par les notions de linéarité, causalité et généalogie mais informées par la notion deleuzienne d</span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">'involution </span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">comme technique non canonique de mise en rapport. La présente étude compte explorer et exemplifier cette approche en s'appuyant sur les stratégies artistiques et les choix d'exhibition des Carson & Miller dans l'exposition </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">The Story of Things</span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">. La manière dont cette exposition réorganise les objets anthropologiques et ethnographiques est un défi aux techniques conventionnelles et traditionnelles de représentation linéaire et généalogique de ce genre d'objets. Les choix artistiques et organisationnels qui ont été faits pour exposer les objets, comme par exemple les juxtapositions non stéréotypées, l'accentuation de certaines parties de l'objet plutôt que d'autres et les combinaisons apparemment incongrues, seront au coeur de l'analyse. L'article se propose de démonter que ces stratégies peuvent contribuer efficacement à la création de nouvelles formes d'organisation narrative et de nouveaux modes de combinaison et de juxtaposition d'objets.</span></span>http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/157Anthropology, Deleuze, exhibition, involution, narrative, object, representation