Ethnographic Terminalia first exhibition was a group exhibition of installation works that showed at the Ice Box gallery(Crane Arts, Philadelphia) in December 2009. The Ice Box is billed as one of Philadelphia’s largest art venues.

Curatorial Statement (2009)

Ethnographic terminalia is a group exhibition of installation works showing at the Ice Box gallery (Crane Arts, Philadelphia) in December 2009. The Ice box is billed as one of Philadelphia's largest art venues. The exhibition draws together disparate trajectories and modes of inquiry from the margins of ethnographic and anthropological practice. Eschewing received and often unquestioned techniques of dissemination, the works in this exhibition seek new territories and new audiences for exploring their subject matter. From the microtechics of skilled gestures to audioacoustemologies of Paris architecture they express a desire to animate and explore formal disciplinary boundaries. The terminus is...

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Contributors

Artist: Trudi Lynn Smith

[Bio c. 2017] Trudi is an artist and anthropologist. She works with cultural practices of media and archives. Her current research interests include the role of entropy within archives, and helping to re-establish connections between contemporary photography practices, camera obscuras. She received an interdisciplinary PhD in Anthropology and Visual Art from University of Victoria, Canada. Trudi's artistic and academic practices are platforms to address the significance of photography by breaking it down to its fundamental properties. Her work explores the way that places like National Parks are maintained through photography; the relationships between archives and photography; and the structure of...

Artist: University of Texas, Austin

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Curator: Craig Campbell

[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...

Curator: University of Texas, Austin

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Curator: Fiona P. McDonald

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....

Curator: University of Texas, Austin

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Organizer: Kate Hennessy

[Bio c. 2018] I am an Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. I am an anthropologist with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and an MA in the Anthropology of Media from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. As the director of the Making Culture Lab, my research explores the role of digital technology in the documentation and safeguarding of cultural heritage, and the mediation of culture, history, objects, and subjects in new forms. My video and multimedia works investigate documentary methodologies to...

Organizer: University of Texas, Austin

https://www.utexas.edu/about/overview

Artist: Kate Hennessy

[Bio c. 2018] I am an Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. I am an anthropologist with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and an MA in the Anthropology of Media from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. As the director of the Making Culture Lab, my research explores the role of digital technology in the documentation and safeguarding of cultural heritage, and the mediation of culture, history, objects, and subjects in new forms. My video and multimedia works investigate documentary methodologies to...

Anthropologist: Erica Lehrer

[Bio c. 2011] Erica Lehrer is assistant professor in the departments of History and Sociology/Anthropology at Concordia University, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology. She is the director of CEREV (Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the aftermath of Violence) . Her work thus far has focused on post-Holocaust Jewish culture; memory, heritage, museums, and tourism; ethnography; intercultural dialogue; and public scholarship. She is co-editor of Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (Palgrave 2011) and Revisiting Jewish Poland: Tourism, Memory, Reconciliation (University of Indiana 2012). [Bio c. 2009] Erica Lehrer...

Artist: Hannah Smotrich

[Bio c. 2009] Hannah Smotrich is a graphic designer and Associate Professor at the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. In her creative practice, Smotrich works collaboratively with a range of non-profit clients on print publications, environmental graphics, and branding. Recent work has centered on communities, identity and cultural history and includes projects such as the design of street markers and accompanying publications for a citywide system of Neighborhood Heritage Trails in Washington, DC, and an exhibit for Museum L-A exploring the lives and communities of former textile workers in Lewiston, Maine. Smotrich holds a BA...

Artist: Oliver Neumann

[Bio c. 2009] Oliver Neumann is Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the role of digital technology in the building process and in broader speculations of emerging material culture. Together [with Kate Hennessy] they document transformations in urban and rural space to reflect cultural, social, and environmental conditions in flux.

Artist: Marko Zivkovic

[Bio c. 2009] Marko Zivkovic was born in Belgrade in 1961 where he went to school and graduated from Belgrade University. He received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago and is currently teaching at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. website: www.ualberta.ca/~zivkovic

Artist: Gordana Zivkovic

[Bio c. 2009] Gordana Zivkovic was born in Belgrade in 1964. She received her MFA from the Belgrade University of Fine arts in 2003. She is currently living and working in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Anthropologist: Christopher Fletcher

[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...

Artist: Roderick Coover

[Bio c. 2010] Roderick Coover is Associate Professor at Temple University, where he teaches courses in visual research and documentary methods. He specializes in multimedia forms of representation. His works include, among others, Cultures in Webs: Working In Hypermedia With The Documentary Image (www.culturesinwebs.com), From Verite To Virtual: Conversations On The Frontier Of Documentary Film And Visual Anthropology (www.der. org), The Theory Of Time Here (www.vdb.org), The Language Of Wine: An Ethnography Of Work, Wine And The Senses (www.languageofwine.com), Unknown Territories (www.unknownterritories.org), and the forthcoming book project Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technologies In The Humanities And Arts (University of...

Artist: Jayasinhji Jhala

[Bio c. 2009] Bapa Jhala is a visual anthropologist at Temple University. Trained as a gemologist, filmmaker and anthropologist Bapa Jhala assembles mobile sculptures from organic materials, makes ethnographic and ‘other’ films and jewels where the process of inclosing mineral in metal is reversed and jade and quartz and other gem materials are embedded with other minerals and metals. www.temple.edu/anthro/jhala/index.html Rann Walk Ocean: Jayasinhji Jhala , Liluye Jhala, Courtney Stoll Steps Walk Red: Jayasinhji Jhala Liluye Jhala, Keith Marchiafava, Marika Otto's Descent: Jayasinhji Jhala, Rhett Grumbkow, Anirudhsinh Jadeja

Anthropologist: Mike Evans

[Bio c. 2009] Mike Evans (PhD McMaster 1996) taught at the University of Northern BC, the University of Alberta, and then joined UBC Okanagan. His primary research relationships are with people in the Métis community in Northern BC, the Métis Nation of BC, the Urban Aboriginal Community of the Okanagan Valley, and Tonga (in the South Pacific). Evans has been involved in several community based research initiatives, and in particular has a long-term relationship with the Prince George Métis Elders Society. Together with Elders and community leaders in Prince George he put together a number of publications including What it...

Artist: Stephen Foster

[Bio c. 2011] Stephen Foster is a video and electronic media artist of mixed Haida and European background. His work tends to deal with issues of indigenous representation in popular culture through personal narrative and documentary. He has exhibited both internationally and nationally and is a sought after lecturer and panelist on interactive documentary and Canadian contemporary indigenous art. Stephen is currently an Associate Professor in the Creative Studies Department at the University of British Columbia–Okanagan where he instructs courses dedicated to video production, digital media and visual theory. [Bio c. 2009] Stephen Foster is a video and electronic media...

Artist: Stephanie Spray

[Bio c. 2009] Stephanie Spray is a doctoral candidate in social anthropology at Harvard University, where she works in the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory and the Film Study Center producing nonfiction video. She received her B.A. in the study of world religions at Smith College (2001) and a master’s degree at Harvard Divinity School (2004). She has been engaged in various fieldwork-based projects in Nepal since 1999. In 2001, she was the recipient of a Fulbright-IIE grant, which she used to begin an ethnomusicological project with the Gaine, a caste of itinerant musicians. Two such musicians were the subjects of an...

Artist: Scott Webel

[Bio c. 2009] Scott Webel is a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Austin’s Folklore/Public Culture program in the Department of Anthropology. He is completing a dissertation on quasi-public houses in the Austin area that host art environments and urban ecology projects that remediate urban waste. [with Jen Webel] Together they are the curators of the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata, an in-home dime museum in Austin, Texas celebrating its tenth year. They contributed an installation to the Austin Museum of Art’s 2008 “New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch” exhibition which traveled throughout Texas. The Museum’s...

Artist: Jen Webel

[Bio c. 2009] Jen Webel teaches elementary art at a private school in Austin. She completed an M.A. in Art Education with a studio focus on new genres at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her thesis focused on the history and aesthetics of kitsch. [with Scott Webel] Together they are the curators of the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata, an in-home dime museum in Austin, Texas celebrating its tenth year. They contributed an installation to the Austin Museum of Art’s 2008 “New Art in Austin: 20 to Watch” exhibition which traveled throughout Texas. The Museum’s temporary exhibitions benefit...

Artworks

Jewish? Heritage? In Poland?

Media on the City: The Lee Building

Lovable Edmonton

“There is something magic and electric in the simple fact of choosing a subject (a place, a moment, an event, a person, things, stones, trees)...

The Sound of Le Corbusier’s Paris

Unknown Territories

The Harvest

Rann Walk Ocean

Breathings

Mobile Agitational Cinema: Iteration no. 1

“Interview: Nasser 10/23/02”

The Prince George Métis Elders’ Documentary Project

Untitled (bed)

House Cats: A Traveling Display of the Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata

Portable Camera Obscura

The installation Portable Camera Obscura is a walk-in, room-sized camera. A temporary architecture, it is a lightproof tent environment that projects an image of the...

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