Projects in Ethnographic Terminalia 2011 took up the theme: field, studio, lab. These three locations–the field, the studio, the lab–comprise both their own communities of practice, and form sites of inquiry and production for artists and anthropologists. Field, studio, and lab are not only places where knowledge is produced, or ethnographic data gathered, but are spaces of everyday life and local cultural production; they are generative sites of encounter, negotiation, conflict, celebration, failure, disappointment and revelation-all of which can unsettle (or ossify) discursive, disciplinary, and methodological boundaries.
Panamanian artist Humberto Vélez anchored the 2011 exhibition with a documentation of his collaborative work, The Fight. In Ethnographic Terminalia 2011, Vélez’s work was exhibited alongside work selected by the curatorial collective, and works produced by our local partnering curator, Concordia University’s Center for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the aftermath of Violence (CEREV).
Organized as a para-site to the annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, the gallery show took place in Montréal, Canada, at Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media and Interdisciplinary Art (15-19 November 2011). Now in its third year, Ethnographic Terminalia represents a diversity of material, conceptual, and creative engagements with art and anthropology, capturing a multiplicity of mediums where anthropology and art intersect. These include: sound, drawing, sculpture, photography, printmaking, video, film, internet and multi-media, and engage both gallery spaces and site-specific locations.
2011 Press Release
[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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