Johannes Kreidler - Fremdarbeit

Full documentary of the Performance Piece "Fremdarbeit" ("Outsourcing") by Johannes Kreidler. Vollständige Dokumentation der Kompositionsaktion "Fremdarbeit".
www.kreidler-net.de

Fremdarbeit (2009)
für Ensemble, Sampler und Moderator

Field Research - Intercultural Communication

Edward T: Hall. The hidden dimension. 1966
Time Cultures
Monochrome society - timetables, schedules, exclusiv to what doesnt fit into schedule
Polychrome society - multioptions, unforeseen situations are taken as is, content not schedule.
Space
Spatial Claims, Patterns and rules of using space
Communications
Different Means in verbal and non-verbal communication. High context vs. low context communication
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Christophe Girot. The Four Trace Concepts. 1999
Landing is the first act of site acknowledgment, and it marks the beginning of the odyssey of the project.
Grounding is the second step in landscape discovery and understanding. Grounding has to do with orientation and rootedness, both in the literal and figurative sense of the word.
Finding entails the act and process of searching as well as the outcome, the thing discovered. It is both an activity and an insight.
Founding is probably the most durable and significant of the four trace acts. It comes at the moment when the prior three acts are synthesized into a new and transformed construction of the site. Founding may be either conservative-referring to some past event or circum stance-or innovative-importing something new to a place.

Wolfgang Welsch - "Transculturality – the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today"

In his text “Transculturality – the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today” Wolfgang Welsch explains in a few words Wittgensteins concept of culture:
“Philosophically, the one person who provides the greatest help for a transcultural concept of culture, however, is Wittgenstein. He outlined an on-principle pragmatically-based concept of culture, which is free of ethnic consolidation and unreasonable demands for homogeneity. According to Wittgenstein, culture is at hand wherever practices in life are shared. The basic task is not to be conceived of as an understanding of foreign cultures, but as an interaction with foreignness. [...] Culture in Wittgenstein’s sense is, by its very structure, open to new connexions and to further feats of integration. To this extent, a cultural concept reformulated along Wittgenstein’s lines seems to me to be particularly apt to today’s conditions.”
http://www2.uni-jena.de/welsch/Papers/transcultSociety.html

“I take this to be very important. Basically I think it is evident – yet it tends to be overlooked incurrent reflection. For in modernity we got used to thinking that everything is strictly bound toits cultural context. We take all experience and cognition to be strictly determined by their cultural framework and hence restricted to it. This is the typically modern axiom – or dogma – behind the contemporary relativism, contextualism and culturalism dominant in the humanities and in cultural studies today. But with this axiom we are blinding ourselves theoretically to the obviously non culture-bound, but transcultural potential of outstanding works or conceptions.”

http://www2.uni-jena.de/welsch/RETHINKI.pdf

 

Sources:

“Transculturality – the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today” Wolfgang Welsch
From: Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, ed. by Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash, London: Sage 1999, 194-213.

Wolfgang Welsch, Rethinking identity in the age of globalization – a transcultural perspective

Aesthetics & Art Science, ed. Taiwan Association of Aesthetics and Art Science, No. 1 (2002), 85-94.

Transculturality - the Puzzling Form of Cultures Today

"[...] a concept of culture which, I think, is appropriate to most cultures today: the concept of transculturality. I will contrast it with three other concepts: first with the classical concept of single cultures and then with the more recent concepts of interculturality and multiculturality. I believe the concept of transculturality to be the most adequate concept of culture today - for both descriptive and normative reasons.
[...]
Philosophically, the one person who provides the greatest help for a transcultural concept of culture, however, is Wittgenstein. He outlined an on-principle pragmatically-based concept of culture, which is free of ethnic consolidation and unreasonable demands for homogeneity. According to Wittgenstein, culture is at hand wherever practices in life are shared. The basic task is not to be conceived of as an understanding of foreign cultures, but as an interaction with foreignness. [...] Culture in Wittgenstein's sense is, by its very structure, open to new connexions and to further feats of integration. To this extent, a cultural concept reformulated along Wittgenstein's lines seems to me to be particularly apt to today's conditions."

From: Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World, ed. by Mike Featherstone and Scott Lash, London: Sage 1999, 194-213.


Rethinking identity in the age of globalization - a transcultural perspective

"It's a truism to say that we are living in an age of globalization. It's a truism of almost the same degree to state that one of the most urgent problems posed by globalization is the problem of identity - of personal as well as cultural identity.
I want to address the question of identity in the first part of my paper, linking it with my conception of transculturality. [...]"

From: Aesthetics & Art Science, ed. Taiwan Association of Aesthetics and Art Science, No. 1 (2002), 85-94. 

Wolfgang Welsch -> Wikipedia