Global Traces: Art Practice, Ethnography, Contested Heritage – CFP

2018/02/13 5767

Global Traces: Art Practice, Ethnography, Contested Heritage Call for Papers University of Oslo 7-8 February, 2019 Organizer: Arnd Schneider, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo Keynote: Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Chair of Global Art History, University of Birmingham This conference aims to present innovative and creative ethnographic perspectives on Continue Reading

Alternative Art and Anthropology

2018/02/13 4356

Alternative Art and Anthropology Arnd Schneider Bloomsbury, 2017 Website While the importance of the relationship between anthropology and contemporary art has long been recognized, the discussion has tended to be among scholars from North America, Europe, and Australia; until now, scholarship and experiences from other regions have been largely absent from mainstream Continue Reading

CFP ASAP/9: The Arts of the Present

2017/01/23 2076

CFP ASAP/9: The Arts of the Present Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present October 26-28, 2017 Hosted by the University of California, Berkeley at the Oakland Marriott City Center ASAP/9 invites proposals from scholars and artists addressing the contemporary arts in all their forms since the 1960s—literary, visual, performing, musical, cinematic, […]Continue Reading

Ethnography-based Art Practices: Changing the Future of Fieldwork

2015/10/30 3081

Conference Ethnography-based Art Practices: Changing the Future of Fieldwork 2-4 June 2016 – Coimbra, Portugal Ethnographic-based art practices are opening up alternative possibilities for doing fieldwork, by involving different senses and deploying assorted strategies and media. This panel welcomes interdisciplinary approaches and hybrid interventions: from academic Continue Reading

Art beyond Itself: Anthropology for a Society without a Story Line

2014/05/26 2416

First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Néstor García Canclini\'s deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of imminence, the place where we glimpse something just about to happen. Yet, as he demonstrates, defining contemporary art and its role in society is an ever more complicated endeavorContinue Reading

In Search of Europe? Art and Research in Collaboration. An Experiment

2014/03/25 1625

Swarowsky, Daniela – Schielke, Samuli – Heister, Andrea (eds) In Search of Europe? Art and Research in Collaboration. An Experiment 2013, Jap Sam Books Publisher Web Site Can we talk about Europe without being Eurocentric? How can we meet on equal footing in an unequal world? These were questions that emerged from a research project […]Continue Reading