Laurence Aëgerter & Ronald van Tienhoven Tristes Tropiques: Illustrations hors texte 2010-2011 On June 17, 2012, Salon für Kunstbuch, a Viennese venue dedicated to the presentation and distribution of artist's books, presented 'Tristes Tropiques: Illustrations hors texte' at the Museum 21er Haus. My lecture revolved about the perception of westerners vis ä vis 'The Other', and vice versa. Weblink: http://www.salon-fuer-kunstbuch.at/

1. A
HUT

2. (OTTO FINSCH)

3. Bronislaw Malinowski
(the sexual life of savages in northwestern melanesia)

4. STANDBEIN
SPIELBEIN

6. THE
OTHER:

7. ISBN 978-1-84467-416-9

8. 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)

10. J O HN
FRUM

11. J O HN
FRUM

16. THE
OTHER:

18. Tristes Tropiques is a memoir, first published in France in 1955
by the anthropologist and structuralist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
It documents his travels and anthropological work, focusing
principally on Brazil. Although ostensibly a travelogue, the work
is infused with philosophical reflections and ideas linking many
academic disciplines, such as sociology, history, and literature.
Lévi-Strauss’ reflections regarding the life of Brazilian indians
in a rapidly changing society, and the transformation in people’s
perception vis-à-vis other cultures throughout the 20th century
led us to use Tristes Tropiques as conceptual and visual point of
reference for our art project in Kunsthuis SYB, in the Frysian
village of Beetsterzwaag.
Thursday, September

19. tupi-kawahib
nambikwara
bororo
caduveo
four tribes visited by Lévi-Strauss during his travels through Central Brazil

20. tupi-kawahib
caduveo bororo
nambikwara
four brasilian tribes ‘relocated’ in the Frysian village of Beetsterzwaag

21. Claude Lévi-Strauss - Tristes Tropiques
Éditions Plon, Paris, 1955

22. Claude Lévi-Strauss
1908-2009

23. The making of

49. THE
OTHER:

50. Text ‘written’ by a Nambikwara man - mimicking Claude Lévi-Strauss’ notes
Brasil, 1935

51. Nambikwara suffering from eye inflammation, a few days after the notes written by the Nambikwara man
Brasil, 1935

52. Fin