The dance between artefact, commodity and fetish
A case study of Brendan Fernandes'Lost Bodies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5761328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharday Mosurinjohn, Sharday Catherine Mosurinjohn (0000-0001-9829-8551, Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 211-228 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Third World Thematics A TWQ Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2379-9978 • E-ISSN: 2380-2014 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23802014.2017.1320199 |
| OpenAlex | W2615985107 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
In 2015, artist Brendan Fernandes was invited to interpret 'African collections' from the Agnes Etherington Art Centre and the Textile Museum of Canada. The result, Lost Bodies, critiques racist ideologies that justified presenting objects from colonised African peoples as evidence of 'superstition' or 'witchcraft' in early European museums. Fernandes redirects the deferential gestures of ballet, professionalised in Louis XIV's court at the same moment of the objects' collection, to reanimate and apologise to them. Considering Lost Bodies, I explore how it is possible to nuance Western museums' public development narratives by engaging such artefacts without either ignoring their history or rejecting museums on account of their own
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Ballet · Commodity · Dance · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Superstition · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law
Making Magic
Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish
The modernity of witchcraft
Magic and Modernity
Recognizing the Non-religious
The Sacred Is the Profane
Religion and Development
Social Identities Between the Sacred and the Secular
Media and Cultural Studies
Genealogies of Religion
Modernity and Enchantment
The Re-Enchantment of the World
Instrumental, Narrow, Normative? Reviewing recent work on religion and development
The ambivalence of post‐development
Sorcery in the Black Atlantic
Spirited Things
We Have Never Been Modern
The birth of the museum
The dangers of anonymity
Thinking with Ngangas
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |