Impermanence : exploring continuous change across cultures /
Nothing lasts forever. This common experience is the source of much anxiety but also hope. The concept of impermanence or continuous change opens up a range of timely questions and discussions that speak to globally shared experiences of transformation and concerns for the future. Impermanence engag...
| Other Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
London :
UCL Press,
[2022].
|
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction / Haidy Geismar, Ton Otto and Cameron David Warner
- Part 1. Living with and against impermanence
- 2. Heavy curtains and deep sleep within darkness / Tsering Woeser
- 3. Disinheriting social death: towards an ethnographic theory of impermanence / Carole McGranahan
- 4. Atheist endings: imagining having been in contemporary Kyrgyzstan / Maria Louw
- 5. Encountering impermanence, making change: a case study of attachment and alcoholism in Thailand / Julia Cassaniti
- 6. Holding on and letting go: Tanzanian Indians’ responses to Impermanence / Cecil Marie Schou Pallesen
- Part 2. States of being and becoming
- 7. A Melanesian impermanence / Joe Nalo
- 8. ‘We are not an emblem’: impermanence and materiality in Asmat lifeworlds / Anna-Karina Hermkens and Jaap Timmer
- 9. The unmaking and remaking of cultural worlds: reinventing ritual on Baluan Island, Papua New Guinea / Ton Otto
- 10. ‘Do what you think about’: fashionable responses to the end of Tibet / Cameron David Warner
- Part 3. Structures and practices of care
- 11. Negotiating impermanence: care and the medical imaginary among people with cancer / Henry Llewellyn
- 12. Caring for the social (in museums) / Haidy Geismar
- 13. Transitional sites and ‘material memory’: impermanence and Ireland’s derelict Magdalene Laundries / Laura McAtackney
- 14. Photos and artist statement / Alison Lowry
- Part 4. Curating impermanence
- 15. ‘Neurosis of the sterile egg’ – permanence and paradox: museum strategies for the representation of Gustav Metzger’s auto-destructive art / Pip Laurenson and Lucy Bayley
- 16. Culturing impermanence at the museum: the metabolic collection / Martin Grünfeld
- 17. Screenshooting impermanence / Winnie Soon and Sarah Schorr
- 18. ‘Museum of Impermanence’: the making of an exhibition / Ulrik Høj Johnsen, Ton Otto and Cameron David Warner
- 19. Epilogue: self unhinged / Caitlin DeSilvey