Event

Thursday, 6 March 2025, 6 pm

Book Launch: String Figures

Free admission, in English


String figures have been studied as an aesthetic practice, collected as artifacts, and considered as a non-Western way of thinking. Looking at ways of playing together on the ruins of our history, the book brings together these different threads and weaves connections between world regions and disciplines in order to re:search, re:define and re:signify the past and present of a beautiful and complex cultural practice. 

Speakers: Seraina Dür and Jonas Gillmann, Ute Holl, Robyn McKenzie, and Nasser Mufti.  

String Figures. A Cultural Practice between Art, Anthropology, and Theory. Edited by Mario Schulze and Sarine Waltenspül, Diaphanes 2025.


String Figures / Fadenspiele
20 November 2024 - 9 March 2025

String Figures / Fadenspiele

Stretched between eight fingers and two thumbs, sometimes between teeth and toes, loops of string make shapes. String figures can do many things: they tell stories, they pass the time, they make the unsayable showable, they connect people. As one of humanity’s oldest cultural practices, they have inspired artists, performers, ethnologists, and theorists. String figures have been studied as an aesthetic practice, collected as artifacts, and considered as a non-Western way of thinking.


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