Aeolian Politics

In the midst of this boom of writing and thinking and worrying about the end of the world brought on by anthropogenic climate catastrophes, Ethnographic Terminalia presents Aeolian Politics.  It is indeed the end of time for glaciers that have withstood thousands of years, cycling through periods of freeze and thaw. 

It is the end of time for entire species extinguished at such an alarming rate that even the most hardened observer of the ‘news’ must be a little shaken and perturbed.

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Ethnographic Terminalia: Philadelphia

Ethnographic Terminalia first exhibition was a group exhibition of installation works that showed at the Ice Box gallery (Crane Arts, Philadelphia) 

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Field, Studio, Lab: Montreal

Field, Studio, Lab was the third Ethnographic Terminalia Exhibtion. It took place at Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media and Interdisciplinary Art in Montreal. 

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Ethnographic Terminalia: New Orleans

Ethnographic Terminalia New Orleans was an exhibition of over 20 local, national and international artists and anthropologists who work at the intersection of art and anthropology. From November 11 – December 3, 2010, Ethnographic Terminalia was on exhibit at the Du Mois Gallery in Uptown New Orleans in the Freret commercial corridor with an extension space Barrister’s Gallery in the St. Claude Arts District.

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Audible Observatories: San Francisco

Audible observatories are points of sensory convergence. They are nodes where worlds perceived through the senses intersect and begin the labour of transforming independent events into knowable and meaningful claims. They speak and they are spoken to. Audible Observatories brings together works that draw attention to both the situation and the agency of the observer. The curators for Audible Observatories make a playful connection between research-based art and place-bound exhibition in order to animate a curatorial vision that foregrounds audio-centric art works within a broader rubric of site-specificity. We conceptualize the audible observatory as either a mobile or a stationary...

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Audible Obervatories, Distrubuted Exhibition: San Francisco

The Distributed Exhibition extends the Audible Observatories show beyond the confines of the gallery. This experimental supplement expands out to the streets of San Francisco. Each of the works in the Distributed Exhibition have been placed in publicly accessible locations that resonate with the works themselves. This project develops a location specificity which carefully layers audio and video works over top everyday experiences of the city. The expanded scope and range of the distributed exhibition allows us to connect with different audiences, creating possibilities for generating of new art publics. The diversity of sites—which includes Yerba Buena Gardens, the GLBTQ...

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The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo-Essay!

Overview The Ethnographic Terminalia Collective invites submissions by photo-essayists working within an anthropological idiom to present their photo-essays at a full-day workshop at the 2016 AAA Meetings in Minneapolis. The full-day workshop is designed for creative and engaged participation from both participants and presenters. It is structured around three sessions each of which features the presentation of a photo-essay, a thought-provoking discussion of photography in Anthropology, and facilitator-led group activity. In the course of the day up to thirty workshop participants and six presenters will collectively contribute to a zine (an open-access and limited print-edition workshop publication) that will be...

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Terminus: Archives, Ephemera, and Electronic Art

Ethnographic Terminalia, grunt gallery (Vancouver) and the 21st International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) presented an exhibition, panel, workshop and a performance in Vancouver BC in August 2015.

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ARCTICNOISE: Dialogues

This public event took place on August 19th at Native Education College in Vancouver. It included an artist talk by Geronimo Inutiq, a discussion of the curatorial process by Britt Gallpen and Yasmin Nurming Por, and a presentation by Christine Lalonde, Associate Curator, Canadian Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Canada. These presentations were followed by responses from two local participants, Raymond Boisjoly whose artistic practice engages issues of Indigeneity, language as a cultural practice, and experiential aspects of materiality; and Glenn Alteen, director of the grunt gallery. The event was co-organized by grunt gallery (Tarah Hogue and Glenn Alteen) and Ethnographic Terminalia.

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Curating Art and Anthropology

This workshop was aimed to think through the possibilities for curating and creating anthropological knowledge in public spaces. In an active workshop environment, members of the Ethnographic Terminalia relayed through anecdote our experience of curating works at the intersections of anthropology and art since 2009. This workshop was open to everyone regardless of whether or not they identified as a visual anthropologist. The point of the in-workshop exercise was to explore what happens to your work and ideas when they are put into a gallery environment in conversation with a group of other works. To participate fully participants were invited...

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The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera: Washington D.C. - 2014

The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera is a thematic reflection on the archive and its discontents. Washington’s identity as the seat of American political power is amplified through its role as the locus of its own memorialization. Where there is history, there is haunting. By drawing on the archive’s unnerving, uncanny, and ephemeral specters, this exhibition is an effort to re-imagine and reposition archives as sites which not only have the capacity to produce and contest historical memory, but also generate significant gaps and blind spots.

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Exhibition as Residency––Art, Anthropology and Collaboration

In 2013 Ethnographic Terminalia was pleased to present “Exhibition as Residency—Art, Anthropology, Collaboration”. It brought together international artists and anthropologists for a five-day residency in which to perform, exhibit, and experiment with collaborative research practices in a public space. Projects explored visual ethnography, material culture, indigeneity, colonialism, diasporas, realist painting, fine art, fashion, and video art. The gallery space represented an opportunity for resident artists and visitors to participate in the process of collaboration and the diverse intersections of art and anthropology.

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Ethnographic Terminalia Presents: Zoe Bray––Seeing Ethnography

What does it mean to visually capture people and cultures? To spark that conversation, this year’s Mead Film Festival is collaborating with the art and anthropology collective Ethnographic Terminalia to put the anthropologist front and center. University of Nevada anthropologist and artist Zoe Bray will showcase her unusual and innovative style of ethnography by live-painting a local subject in the Museum’s Grand Gallery for the duration of the festival. Stop by to watch Dr. Bray at work, discover her visual research methods, and consider how ethnography is practiced.

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Aeolian Politics Poetry Workshop

This workshop is organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Ethnographic Terminalia presents Aeolian Politics” which features the work of Binnizá (Zapotec) poet, Victor Terán.

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BETA TEST: The Ethnographic Terminalia Archive

[from the AAA program]

At the 2018 AAA Meetings in San Jose this archive will be in a beta test mode. Invited discussants and event participants (anyone registered for the AAA meetings and the public are welcome) will contextualize and problematize archiving art and anthropology in a rapidly changing digital humanities environment. Ethnographic Terminalia will provide a view into the development of the archive’s metadata and relational structure  while inviting participants to  offer critical feedback and discuss  the role of archives in teaching and art-making across disciplines. If you have participated in Ethnographic Terminalia over the years, how is your work represented and how could it be improved? If you teach in the area of art and anthropology, or visual and media anthropology, how could this tool be most useful to you and students?
 

 

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Anspayaxw by John Wynne

Anspayaxw is an immersive 12-channel sound and photography installation based on recordings made in and around the Native reserve of Kispiox, in northern British Columbia.  John Wynne worked with artist Denise Hawrysio and linguist Tyler Peterson to record and photograph speakers of the endangered language, Gitxsanimaax, gathering materials for this installation and for a new community archive housed at the ‘Ksan Museum in Gitxsan territory.

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Ethnographic Terminalia New Orleans, Barrister's Gallery

Ethnographic Terminalia is pleased to highlight  two works installed at Barrister’s Gallery in the St. Claude Arts District: Lina Dib’s interactive video work Recantorium, and  Ryan Burns’ sculptural installation Profane Relics: An ossuary of the Congo mineral wars.

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