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 to bring in research that was completed and work collaboratively in groups re-imagine it in the context of a gallery exhibition. In this workshop, we worked through a notional exhibition that included everyone’s work. That meant needed negotiating space (sonic, physical, social, etc.) within the UCB Art Museum.
In preparation for this workshop participants were asked to read provided materials, reference a floor plan of the UCB Art Museum, and prepare a 500-1,000 word summary of their primary research, fieldwork, or data set. List out the types of data sets they have (visual, audio, material objects, etc). Additionally, they were asked to write up to 500 words about WHY and how they would like to exhibit their work. To complete this preparatory work, they were asked to think about answering questions such as: (1) What gap does it fill?; (2) Who would you want to see your exhibition?; (3) Where would you like to exhibit?; (4) Is exhibition the right solution to translating your research to new publics?
The intended outcomes of this workshop were to: (1) raise awareness of the way anthropology and art come together through curatorial projects; (2) create a generative space to play with curatorial ideas for imaginative projects; and (3) provide constructive feedback on projects participants may wish to bring to life in the form of an exhibition.
[Bio c. 2017] Craig Campbell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin. He received his PhD in Sociology (Theory and Culture) from the University of Alberta in 2009. He is actively involved in producing works that span the range of expository writing, art exhibition, and curation. These function as companion works to a thematic interest in archives, photography, documents, and the anxious territory of actuality. Craig Campbell’s ethnographic, historical, and regional interests include: Siberia, Central Siberia, Indigenous Siberians, Evenki, Evenkiia, Reindeer hunting and herding, Travel and mobility, Socialist colonialism, early forms of Sovietization, and the circumpolar...
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Fiona P. McDonald completed her PhD (2014) in the Department of Anthropology at University College London (UCL) in visual anthropology & material culture (Supervisors: Professor Susanne Kuechler and Professor Christopher Pinney). Her dissertation is entitled, Charting Material Memories: a visual and material ethnography of the transformations of woollen blankets in contemporary art, craft, and Indigenous regalia in Canada, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the United States . This project was undertaken as both an historic and contemporary visual and material ethnography of the material nature and transformations of woollen (trade) blankets that were produced in the United Kingdom since the seventeenth century....
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