BORROWED FINERY
Film screening and lecture by Anja Dreschke
Fri 30 January, 6 p.m.

As part of the costume workshop, media anthropologist and filmmaker Anja Dreschke presents her long-term ethnographic research on the Cologne tribes, an association of around 80 clubs from Cologne and who spend their free time with mimetic appropriation of the historical lifestyles of societies that are »foreign« to them. Their reenactments reflect a multitude of media representations of otherness and imaginations from the colonial image repertoire, which seem to reveal more about the “self” than about the “foreign”. The lecture explores the origins of the Cologne tribes in carnival and examines the aesthetic, social and political dimensions of their vestimentary practices between disguise, traditional costume and uniform.

Anja Dreschke is a media anthropologist, filmmaker and curator based in Cologne. Her films, installations, photo essays, exhibitions and texts investigate liminal phenomena, imagination and embodiment, mimetic practices and media of altered perception. She currently is an interim professor for media anthropology and innovative methods at the University of Siegen.
Further information about Anja Dreschke's work can be found here: www.anjadreschke.de

FILM: DIE STÄMME VON KÖLN (The Tribes of Cologne), Germany 2011. HD, 90 min. Realfiction Filmverleih (DVD).
BOOK: Kölner Stämme. Eine Medienethnografie. Berlin: Reimer Verlag 2024.

 

 

Image:
Vorlage für “Gewandung” auf Smartphone, 2015.© Anja Dreschke