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Papers by Lotte Arndt
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - Université Paris Descartes, Sep 1, 2021
The film Episode of the Sea is the outcome of a two-year collaboration between Dutch artists Lonn... more The film Episode of the Sea is the outcome of a two-year collaboration between Dutch artists Lonnie Van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan with the fishing community of Urk, a former island in the Netherlands. In the previous century, the Dutch closed off and drained their inland sea to reclaim new arable land. The island of Urk, situated in mid sea, suddenly found itself embraced by land. Its inhabitants were expected to switch from fishing to farming, but the fishermen managed to continue their trade. They found new fishing grounds, far out in the North Sea. Despite being part of the mainland for decades, the fishing village is still notoriously insular and its inhabitants continue to speak their own dialect. The film documents the material world of contemporary North Sea fishery and the fishermen's struggle with a changed public perception, fluctuating regulations, and excessive global competition, while parallels are drawn between fishing and filming. The following is an edited conversation about the film between
PERIPHERIE - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, 2016
Trouble dans les collections, Sep 1, 2021
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature, 2011
Part of the French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons This Compte Rendu is brought t... more Part of the French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons This Compte Rendu is brought to you for free and open access by CrossWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature by an authorized editor of CrossWorks.
Commodity Frontiers, 2020
How to address as an artist collective the profit-maximizing structures of extractivism? A collab... more How to address as an artist collective the profit-maximizing structures of extractivism? A collaboration between a dozen artists and writers on three continents, On-Trade-Off enters the “extractive zone”, critically examines its functioning, and searches for alternatives.
Cahiers d'Études africaines, 2016
Is pictorial language able to convey a juridical abstraction? This co-authored text addresses tha... more Is pictorial language able to convey a juridical abstraction? This co-authored text addresses that question in the context of the geo-political division of Africa after the Berlin Africa Conference (Congo Conference), as a means to conceptualise colonial rule in 1884/85 – and its manifold grave consequences – as a historical by-product of Europe’s political and aesthetic modernity. Is there any value in representing the image of genocide, (while acknowledging the ‘impossibility’ of its representation)? With these issues in mind, lawyer Malte Jaguttis and artist Dierk Schmidt offer a commentary based on their project, ‘The division of the earth -Tableaux on the legal synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference’.
Éditée par le Van Abbemuseum d’Eindhoven, sous la direction de Nick Aikens, susan pui san lok et ... more Éditée par le Van Abbemuseum d’Eindhoven, sous la direction de Nick Aikens, susan pui san lok et Sophie Orlando, cette publication marque l’aboutissement d’un programme de recherche international porté par l’University of the Arts London. Proposant une relecture du conceptualisme et de sa supposée résistance aux politiques de l’identité, ce livre détaille les manières dont des artistes conceptuel.le.s se sont emparé.e.s, en Europe, de considérations migratoires, de genre, de classe, de sexe ou de race, après les bouleversements politiques et sociaux de 1968. D’approche intersectionnelle, cette réflexion s’articule autour de quatre focus, respectivement consacrés au travail de Nil Yalter, Stanley Brouwn, David Medalla et Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc.
A l’heure ou s’impose aux acteurs des institutions museales occidentales la necessite d’interroge... more A l’heure ou s’impose aux acteurs des institutions museales occidentales la necessite d’interroger leur histoire, cette publication explore les questions soulevees par la presence d’objets issus de la collecte coloniale dans les collections. Ce livre prolonge les discussions entre artistes, chercheurs et commissaires initiees a l’occasion de la huitieme Biennale de Berlin et introduit dans la reflexion l’affect comme agent perturbateur des collections ethnographiques. Les artistes contemporai...
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - Université Paris Descartes, Sep 1, 2021
The film Episode of the Sea is the outcome of a two-year collaboration between Dutch artists Lonn... more The film Episode of the Sea is the outcome of a two-year collaboration between Dutch artists Lonnie Van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan with the fishing community of Urk, a former island in the Netherlands. In the previous century, the Dutch closed off and drained their inland sea to reclaim new arable land. The island of Urk, situated in mid sea, suddenly found itself embraced by land. Its inhabitants were expected to switch from fishing to farming, but the fishermen managed to continue their trade. They found new fishing grounds, far out in the North Sea. Despite being part of the mainland for decades, the fishing village is still notoriously insular and its inhabitants continue to speak their own dialect. The film documents the material world of contemporary North Sea fishery and the fishermen's struggle with a changed public perception, fluctuating regulations, and excessive global competition, while parallels are drawn between fishing and filming. The following is an edited conversation about the film between
PERIPHERIE - Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, 2016
Trouble dans les collections, Sep 1, 2021
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature, 2011
Part of the French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons This Compte Rendu is brought t... more Part of the French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons This Compte Rendu is brought to you for free and open access by CrossWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature by an authorized editor of CrossWorks.
Commodity Frontiers, 2020
How to address as an artist collective the profit-maximizing structures of extractivism? A collab... more How to address as an artist collective the profit-maximizing structures of extractivism? A collaboration between a dozen artists and writers on three continents, On-Trade-Off enters the “extractive zone”, critically examines its functioning, and searches for alternatives.
Cahiers d'Études africaines, 2016
Is pictorial language able to convey a juridical abstraction? This co-authored text addresses tha... more Is pictorial language able to convey a juridical abstraction? This co-authored text addresses that question in the context of the geo-political division of Africa after the Berlin Africa Conference (Congo Conference), as a means to conceptualise colonial rule in 1884/85 – and its manifold grave consequences – as a historical by-product of Europe’s political and aesthetic modernity. Is there any value in representing the image of genocide, (while acknowledging the ‘impossibility’ of its representation)? With these issues in mind, lawyer Malte Jaguttis and artist Dierk Schmidt offer a commentary based on their project, ‘The division of the earth -Tableaux on the legal synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference’.
Éditée par le Van Abbemuseum d’Eindhoven, sous la direction de Nick Aikens, susan pui san lok et ... more Éditée par le Van Abbemuseum d’Eindhoven, sous la direction de Nick Aikens, susan pui san lok et Sophie Orlando, cette publication marque l’aboutissement d’un programme de recherche international porté par l’University of the Arts London. Proposant une relecture du conceptualisme et de sa supposée résistance aux politiques de l’identité, ce livre détaille les manières dont des artistes conceptuel.le.s se sont emparé.e.s, en Europe, de considérations migratoires, de genre, de classe, de sexe ou de race, après les bouleversements politiques et sociaux de 1968. D’approche intersectionnelle, cette réflexion s’articule autour de quatre focus, respectivement consacrés au travail de Nil Yalter, Stanley Brouwn, David Medalla et Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc.
A l’heure ou s’impose aux acteurs des institutions museales occidentales la necessite d’interroge... more A l’heure ou s’impose aux acteurs des institutions museales occidentales la necessite d’interroger leur histoire, cette publication explore les questions soulevees par la presence d’objets issus de la collecte coloniale dans les collections. Ce livre prolonge les discussions entre artistes, chercheurs et commissaires initiees a l’occasion de la huitieme Biennale de Berlin et introduit dans la reflexion l’affect comme agent perturbateur des collections ethnographiques. Les artistes contemporai...
La collecte d’objets fut une pratique fréquente dans les territoires occupés par les États europé... more La collecte d’objets fut une pratique fréquente dans les territoires occupés par les États européens colonisateurs. À partir de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, les pouvoirs coloniaux encourageaient leurs citoyens implantés dans les colonies à rassembler des objets pour enrichir les collections ethnographiques de la métropole et pour documenter la culture matérielle des sociétés qui – sous l’emprise de la colonisation – se transformaient rapidement. Les objets rassemblés lors de ces collectes se trouvent désormais dans de nombreux musées européens ou entre les mains de collectionneurs privés. Leur présence dans ces collections pose des questions épistémologiques, muséographiques et éthiques qu’il est urgent de soulever.
Ce livre, qui trouve son origine dans une série de tables rondes qui se déroulèrent dans le cadre de la 8e Biennale de Berlin pour l’art contemporain en 2014, engage donc ces problématiques grâce à des contributions de chercheuses et chercheurs, d’artistes ainsi que de commissaires d’expositions internationaux.
Collecting objects was a frequent practice among European colonial states in their occupied territories. From the second half of the nineteenth century, colonial powers encouraged their citizens in the colonies to collect objects that would enrich the ethnographical collections of the mother country and document the material culture of societies that – under the influence of colonialization – were undergoing rapid change. The objects collected ended up in countless European museums or in the hands of private collectors. Their presence in these collections raises epistemological, museographical and ethical questions in urgent need of consideration.
This publication, the fruit of a series of round tables held in 2014 during the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, raises these problematic issues with contributions from scholars, artists and international exhibition curators.
Avec les contributions de/ with contributions by :
Mathieu K. Abonnenc Lotte Arndt Julien Bondaz Candice Lin Françoise Vergès Sammy Baloji Phillip Van den Bossche Patricia Van Schuylenbergh Abraham Cruzvillegas Eduardo Abaroa Spyros Papapetros Catalina Lozano Hanne Loreck Pauline M’barek Ricardo Roque Pratchaya Phinthong Britta Lange
ISBN 9782917855683, 328 p. engl/français, carton, € 24 (2016).