Yana Stainova

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Art and Ethnographic Forms in Dark Times

Theorizing the Contemporary

Art and Ethnographic Forms in Dark Times

What are the ethnographic arts through which we know and express the worlds we encounter? How does ethnographic experience become translated into/as art? How ca... More

Art and Ethnographic Forms in Dark Times: Introduction

Theorizing the Contemporary

Art and Ethnographic Forms in Dark Times: Introduction

This series considers the intersections between ethnography and art, and the playful synergy that emerges between them, even in dark times. The contributors to ... More

Between Joy and Nostalgia: A Story of Venezuelan Musicians in Paris

Theorizing the Contemporary

Between Joy and Nostalgia: A Story of Venezuelan Musicians in Paris

We were laughing hard, our torsos bent over our aching bellies, our faces stretched into big smiles. This uncontrolled laughter was the palpable ruins into whic... More

On Hope

Visual and New Media Review

On Hope

The opening of A Possible Anthropology (Duke University Press, 2019) by Anand Pandian disarmed me by insisting on the possibility of building and nurturing “a g... More

The Force of Sonority

Visual and New Media Review

The Force of Sonority

July 15, 2018. Shores of the Canal Saint-Martin, Paris. It was the evening when France won the soccer world cup. The recording captures the hours before the eve... More

To Let Oneself Be Moved

Theorizing the Contemporary

To Let Oneself Be Moved

What does the otherwise sound like? What flights of the imagination resonate in and through sound? How do we capture the political significance of aesthetic exp... More