FOUNDATION ANTROPODIUM |
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SOME OF THE BACKGROUND... As can be read in the name, the foundation will bring a podium to anthropos : a platform to Man. The emblem of the foundation has to feature a human figure |
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walking on stilts. We imagine stilts as one of the archaic instruments for necessary movement that helped Man in primitive times to survive in morasses. In the context here stilts are given a symbolistic signification to help Man in his elevation from (the morasses of) ordinairy life. |
Because of this imagination, it may have happened that stilts were jointly primordial to the raise of platform in archaic society. Stilts may have elevated the being of Man, and give him expression for his actions of triviality into a ritual and an artistic sense. - - - - - - - - - - - - - collecting, propagating and distributing the knowledge about ethnological, cultural-anthropological and ethno-musicological phenomena, originated in societies from everywhere in the world, and even belonging to any period, likewise collecting objects and instruments that are connected with foresaid phenomena. |