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String Figures – An Interdisciplinary Workshop at the Ethnographic Museum

Filmstill aus 16 mm Aufnahmen von Harry Smith, Harry Smith Archives, New York, 1970–1980.
Filmstill aus 16 mm Aufnahmen von Harry Smith, Harry Smith Archives, New York, 1970–1980.

String figures are among the oldest cultural techniques known to humanity. In anthropology, string figures were long considered a universal game. As a body practice that can be found in so many places of this world, it fed the epistemological fantasies of a universal cultural comparison throughout the 20th century. Furthermore, string figures, for which one usually needs nothing but a string tied at the ends and one or more pairs of hands, have also served as inspiration in Western modern art time and again.

Mareile Flitsch, together with Sarine Waltenspül (University of Lucerne) and Mario Schulze (University of Lucerne and Basel), invites you to the workshop on Friday, 9 June 2023, at the Ethnological Museum. Programme Download (PDF, 133 KB). Registration until Tuesday, 6 June 2023, to musethno@vmz.uzh.ch

On the evening before, on Thursday, 8 June 2023, the Donnerstagskino (Thursday Cinema) will take up the topic cinematically and show Six String Figures Films.

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