[Bio c. 2009]
Christopher Fletcher is an ecological and medical anthropologist who has worked in arctic and subarctic indigenous communities in Canada for 15 years. His work covers a number of topics and includes contributions to research on community health and wellness and collaborative media projects grounded in local philosophies. Almost all of his work has been with multidisciplinary teams and his collaborators have ranged at various times from psychiatrists to limnologists to indigenous healers. A life-long photographer he has incorporated film and video into nearly all of his work as both a research tool and a communication modality. Working with video has provided many chances to think through the experiential and practical issues around sound in research and culture generally. This installation is his first attempt to work with sound in an arts space. Fletcher readily acknowledges his debt to indigenous (Dene and Inuit at different times and different ways) philosophies of human and extra-human spatial relations. Through this lens he has recently been exploring ecological subjectivities at the dog walking park in middle class urban neighborhoods, efforts to document and contemporize traditional medicinal practices in the subarctic, and most recently in the discrete sonic environments of Le Corbusier’s buildings in Paris. He teaches visual anthropology and directs the anthropology visualization lab at the University of Alberta.
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| Role | Project |
|---|---|
| Anthropologist | Ethnographic Terminalia: Philadelphia |
| Role | Project |
|---|---|
| Anthropologist | The Sound of Le Corbusier’s Paris |