Rewind 002 | Marina Warner | Elective Affinities: the Shaman, a Guest and the Language of Things
b'Invited during the XIII edition of CSAV - Artists\' Research Laboratory, with Joan Jonas as Visiting Professor, Marina Warner illustrates the developments of magical thinking in the XX century, in relation to anthropological research and scientific discoveries. The evolution of the figure and the term shaman are thus reflected in the corridors of an ethnographic museum and in the everyday life of children\'s bestsellers such as Harry Potter or His Dark Matter as well as in artistic practices. In this dense excursus, Marina Warner dialogues with Aby Warburg\'s intuitions about the ritual snake dance of Hopi Indians, the same followed by Joan Jonas for her performance The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things. It is therefore the ability of the ritual to dialogue with other worlds and dimensions, that reveals "the true language of art: the flight of the shaman\'s mind".\\n\\n05.07.2007, Archive Fondazione Antonio Ratti'