Author: Angelika Fitz
Merle Kroger/Alexandra Schneider
Editor(s): Angelika Fitz/Angelika Fitz/Alexandra Schneider
Publisher: Katha
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 379
ISBN/UPC (if available): 3866019106
Description
India and German-speaking Europe are connected by a long history of mutual ascriptions and phantasms. Import Export stretches an imaginary screen and examines those projections that characterize the relationship. The publication enfolds dialogues between Indian and European academics, artists and activists who address the political dimensions of cultural exchange as well as the cultural implications of economic relations: individual travel, migration and tourism, the transfer of ideology and ideas, the changing definition of citizen’s rights, the varying notions of public space, the construction of stereotypes in the media, the aura of imported and exported goods or the concepts of nature and culture.
It is both with pleasure and sadness that this introduction to Import Export, Cultural transfer, India, Germany, Austria. It is a pleasure because this catalogue is witness to the wonderfully creative effort that the Import Export project has been, and sadness because this excellent project is coming to its conclusion. The proof is this catalogue that you are holding in your hands, which narrates the relatively short life and accomplishments of the project in its attempt to bring the German speaking European space closer to India and vice versa.
This is exactly what the European Union has set out as it its goal to achieve by sponsoring activities such as these: the narrowing of the divide, the dismantling of stereotypes and the better understanding of these two wonderfully vibrant, ancient and modern societies-the Indian and the European. And what better way to attain this but through culture?
The project entitled Import Export-Cultural Transfer between India and Germany, Austria was selected with high scores among a large number of contestants who submitted their innovative proposals to the 2003 Call for Proposals for the EU-India Economic Cross Cultural Programme (ECCP), million grant support initiative by the European Union. Competition was high as only 26 out of 132 proposals were accepted.
Following the interdisciplinary approach of the project, the three documentary film essays produced within the framework of Import Export are part of this publication. The DVD contains English and German subtitled versions for each documentary.
Contents
MOVING CONCEPTS
MISHKA SINHA
German Orientalism and the Reorientation of the West
Cultural Translation between Indian and Germany in the 19th and 20th Centuries
NAVINA SUNDARAM
An Outsider’s Inside View or an Insider’s Outside View
India on German TV 1957-2005
CHRISTIANE HARTNACK
Freud on Garuda’s Wings
Psychoanalysis in Colonial India
CHETAN BHATT
From the Rivers of Hate
Some Strange Travels of Indo-German Fantasy
WOLFGANG MULLER-FUNK
Post Colonialism and the Dialectics of the Other in a European Context
The Habsburg Monarchy
ANGELIKA FITZ
The Animal Beside US/DVD
On a Film Essay by Michael Worgotter
ALEXANDRA SCHNEIDER
The Best of Both Worlds
Imaginary Topographies of Cinema and Tourism between India and Germany
ANGELIKA FITZ
Visible conflicts-aesthetical and Political Negotiations in Public Space
New Delhi and Vienna
RAHUL SRIVASTAVA
Art and the City
ANURADHA KAPUR
Notes Towards Rerouting Heiner Muller
MANMEET, SHANTANU LODH & MICHAEL WORGOTTER
Wild Life Garden
Ennui in the Zoo of Identities
MOVING GOODS
VINAY CHOUDARY
Message from the Dabba
How India Wards off the Threat of Globalisation
NANCY ADAJANIA
In Aladdin’s Cave
Digital Manipulation and the Transmutation of the Private
Image in Urban India
MEENAKSHI SHEDDE & VINZENZ HEDIGER
Come on, Baby, be my Tiger
Inventing India on the German Screen in Der Tiger von Eschnapur and Das indische Grabmal
ALEXANDRA SCHNEIDER
A World of Proximity and elsewhere
Non-Indian Bollywood Reception in Germany and Switzerland
ASHISH RAJADHYAKSHA
Bollywood 2004
The Globalised Freak Show of What Was the Cinema
MERLE KROGER & DOROTHEE WENNER
Subjects in the Rear Mirror are Closer than they Appear/DVD
Reflections on StarBiz, a Documentary
NAYANTARA GHOSH
India Inc
Global Marketing Strategies and Cultural Identity
BERNHARD FUCHS
Ethnicity on the Market
South Asian Niche Economies in Vienna
DOROTHEE WENNER
Facts and Folkore of Indo-German Trade
Conversation with Isabell Lutkehaus
MAMTA MURTHY
Food, Skin and Other Baggage
A Post-Journey Journal
MADHUSREE DUTTA
Curating Political Art: Collating Political aesthetics
Looking Back at Organizing Culture Components for the WSF 2004
SHOBHA RAGHURAM
Civil Society and Development Aid
The Politics of Responsible Engagement
MOVING PEOPLE
RANJIT HOSKOTE
Walking Through Mirrors?
Reflections on the Spiritual Traffic between India and Europe
PHILIP SCHEFFNER
Basics of Cultural Exchange
Interview with Doris Lerch, Department of Central Citizen’s Registration, Berlin
MADHUSREE DUTTA
Curating Political Art: Collating Political aesthetics
Looking Back at Organising Culture Components for the WSF 2004
SHOBHA RAGHURAM
Civil Society and Development Aid
The Politics of Responsible Engagement
MOVING PEOPLE
RANJIT HOSKOTE
Walking Through Mirrors?
Reflections on the Spiritual Traffic between Indian and Europe
PHILIP SCHEFFNER
Basics of Cultural Exchange
Interview with Doris Lerch, Department of Central Citizen’s Registration, Berlin
MADHUSREE DUTTA & PHILIP SCHEFFNER
From Here to Here /DVD
HELMUT DIETRICH
Powerless Refugees-a far too Powerful network?
The Construction of Smuggling of Human Beings Before and After 9.11.2001
FLAVIA AGNES
Citizenship as Identity in Post 9/11 Nations
SITHARAMAM KAKARALA
The Counter Terrorist Advantage
Authoritarian Security State and Future of Cosmopolitan (Global) Citizenship
RUBAICA JALIWALA
No Riots in Berlin!
URMILA GEOL
Fatima and Theinder.net. A Refuge in Virtual Space
SUN-JU CHOI & ANKE ILLING
Scattered wholes and Chosen Bits
Reality and Everyday Life of Second Generation German-Indian Women
NICOLE WOLF
The Import and Export of Knowledge in Conversations or: Where is My Subject?
PHILIP SCHEFFNER
Import Export Postcard Collection