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Congolisation - Traumnovelle : Style Congo, Heritage & Heresy
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Year: 2023 Publisher: Brussels : CIVA,

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The installation by the architectural office Traumnovelle presents a chronology of materials, mainly coming from CIVA collections, testifying the Congolese presence in international exhibitions during colonial times starting from Antwerp Universal Exhibition 1885, the year of the birth of the « Congo Free State », until the Brussels World Fair of 1958, the last event in which Congo was presented as a colony. These colonial sections were a legitimization of colonialism itself. To convince visitors of the civilizing mission of colonialism a large emphasis was placed in the presentation on “progress”, as imported in the colonies. Progress encompassed religious, educational, cultural upheaval of the indigenous population but also stood for the modernization as implemented through technology that represented the advance of the western world itself. An exotic setting however remained crucial for appealing to the general public. Between 1885 until 1958 human zoos were organized in the frame of the exhibitions, with reconstructions of Congolese villages crowded with natives in indigenous garb. Although controversial and discussed even at that time, they were nevertheless the ones that made the success of the Tervuren exhibition in 1897. From 1894 the Ethnographic rooms also became an almost recurrent form of display.


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Eurotopie
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ISBN: 9782930705378 293070537X Year: 2018 Publisher: Bruxelles : Éditions de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles,

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Eurotopie, the selected project for the Belgian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale of 2018, will address the issues and challenges tackled by the European Union. Despite being the E.U's principal territorial, physical and symbolic anchorage, the European Quarter in Brussels seems in no way to contribute to a collective European identity. The relationship of the European Quarter with its host city, however, is ambiguous. According to the curators Traumnovelle and Roxane Le Grelle, Europe is the only great narrative which can effectively counter nationalism and extremism. With Eurotopie, they hope to arouse political commitment in European citizens and extend an invitation to pursue the construction of Europe as a political ideal as well as its anchorage in Brussels. They also address architects and space-makers in considering how the European democratic space can be constructed, and how it can cohabit with Brussels.

Verhüllte Schaulust : Die Maske in Schnitzlers »Traumnovelle« und in Kubricks »Eyes Wide Shut«
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ISBN: 3839404258 3899424255 9783899424256 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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In Arthur Schnitzlers Traumnovelle und in Stanley Kubricks filmischer Adaption Eyes Wide Shut ist die Maske zentrales Darstellungsmittel von Schaulust, Blick und Scham. So, wie die Maske das Gesicht verhüllt, so versucht der Beschämte, sich vor dem enthüllenden Blick des Anderen zu verbergen. Ausgehend von der aktuellen psychoanalytischen Scham-Theorie wird hier erstmals gezeigt, wie die spezifische Medialität von Scham und Maske nicht nur die Figuren, sondern auch die ästhetischen Strategien in Text und Film maßgeblich prägt und reflektiert. Dies betrifft u.a. die Wahrnehmung des Zuschauers/Lesers, die filmische und literarische Inszenierung des Blicks, die Visualität und die Frage der Darstellbarkeit. »Zusammenfassend handelt es sich bei dem vorliegenden Band um eine gründliche, fleißige und überzeugende Studie. Besonders hervorzuheben ist der interdisziplinäre Ansatz, der Psychoanalyse, Literaturwissenschaft und Filmanalyse fruchtbar miteinander verbindet. Daher läßt sich das Buch meines Erachtens insgesamt durchaus für den interessierten Leser empfehlen.« Sonja Czekaj, MEDIENwissenschaft, 1 (2008) »[Das] Wechselspiel zwischen der Position des Voyeurs und der peinlichen Demaskierung stellt Freytag überzeugend und plausibel dar [...].« André Schwarz, literaturkritik.de, 1 (2009)

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