je estun autre

cargocult

an ecologyof mind

theother

Leni Riefenstahl and Kau Nuba men, 1974

The film unit of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies documenting a restricted men’s ceremony (The image has been overlain with a 21st century sensibility)

Nambikwara Indians watching television, 1986

“In the world of creatures,nothing can be understood,

until differences and disctinctions are invoked.”

gregory batesonMind and Nature: A Necessary Unity

“Possibly the time will come we discover that the same logic is the source of both mythical

and scientific thought, en that Man has always thought well.”

claude lévi-straussThe Structural Study of Myth, 1955

Claude Lévi-Strauss1908-2009

This project and the artist’s book have been made possible thanks to the generous support from

the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.

The making of

theother

Text ‘written’ by a Nambikwara man - mimicking Claude Lévi-Strauss’ notesBrasil, 1935

Nambikwara suffering from eye inflammation, a few days after the notes written by the Nambikwara manBrasil, 1935

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