DATE: 8th April, 2022 Location: Vysoka Skola Kreativni Komunikace, Prague, Czech Republic (+ online) Ecstatic Truth is an annual symposium that explores issues arising from the interface between animation (in all its expanded forms) and documentary (conceptualised very broadly as non-fiction), with a particular interest in the questions raised by experimental and practitioner perspectives. According…
Author: Tereza Stehlíková
Ecstatic Truth VI: To Attend
WHERE: Vysoká škola kreativní komunikace (University of Creative Communication) Prague, Czechia WHEN: April 8, 2022 Ecstatic Truth is an annual symposium that explores issues arising from the interface between animation (in all its expanded forms) and documentary (conceptualised very broadly as non-fiction), with a particular interest in the questions raised by experimental and practitioner perspectives. According…
TT journal issue 3: Editorial
TT JOURNAL, VOL.1, ISSUE 3, 8TH OCTOBER 2021 I am pleased to present you with the 3rd issue of Tangible Territory. It comes out in tandem with my exhibition called Ophelia in Exile, which, unlike TT journal, has a physical manifestation. The joint theme for both is a questioning of the role of…
Ophelia in Exile
A multi-media art installation, exploring the importance of all our senses in giving meaning to our human experience. Its concept is inspired by the current pandemic and its impact on how we engage with others. The exhibition is one of the manifestations of an ongoing collaborative dialogue initiated by the Tangible Territory journal, conceived by…
The Museum Of Pictorial Culture
From Less-Known Russian Avant-garde series Lev Manovich and Julian Sunley, 2021 Although we usually assume think that first museum of modern art was MoMA (New York, 1929), an earlier museum called Museum of Pictorial Culture was established in 1919 and run by most important Russian avant-garde artists until its closing in 1929. Our essays discuss…
Rethinking Congenital Synaesthesia
TT JOURNAL, VOL.1, ISSUE 3, PREVIEW Rethinking Congenital Synaesthesia David Howes, Anton Dorso Thank you, Anton, for your interest in my work, and for providing me with the opportunity to rethink the phenomenon of synaesthesia from an anthropological, or cross-cultural, perspective in response to your highly perspicacious barrage of questions. 1. …
Film and new food rituals in the time of COVID-19
TT JOURNAL, VOL.1, ISSUE 3 preview As sensory anthropologist David Howes writes in his contribution to the Sensory Orders exhibition catalogue (curated by Chris Salter): “Sensory anthropology fleshes out the concept of the “sensory order” through analyzing how the senses are valued and combined differently in different societies. Some societies value feeling over seeing, or…
Call for submissions
Dear reader, We are opening a call for submissions for the 3rd issue of TT journal. The theme remains broadly centred on the role of the senses in making sense of our world and our place in it. By extension this also includes the impact of the pandemic on this relationship and the growing role…
TT journal issue 2: Editorial
Dear Reader, Here is a second issue of our Tangible Territory journal, with a wonderful array of contributions, introducing various textures and flavours of experience, reflections and resonances by a number of inspiring artists, thinkers, writers and philosophers. There are several currents that have emerged here, naturally, within the core themes of embodiment, virtualisation of…
TT journal issue 1: Editorial
TT Journal, Vol.1, ISSUE 1, 3rd November 2020 Click her for ISSUE 1: CONTENT OVERVIEW Dear Reader, Welcome to the first issue of our Tangible Territory journal, which comes into being partly because of this strange and abrupt transformation of our everyday reality yet is also a result of a much longer investigation. This journey…