Dear Adrian and all,
Thank you for your invitation to new listserv members to introduce
ourselves. For some reason I was unable to post to the list myself, but
I'll leave this in your hands...
I am also a final-year PhD Candidate, and my dissertation examines how
curators of contemporary art engage in the physical process of choosing
artworks and installing public exhibitions. While my work is informed by
cultural sociology - in particular questions of how 'culture gets into
action' - I've begun increasingly to draw on Actor-Network Theory,
ecological psychology, and work in cognitive science (cognition in the
wild, etc) in order to understand the active role that objects and
aesthetic materials play in shaping experience and understanding.
As there is little focus on embodiment in the sociology of the arts, I
am incredibly grateful for the interesting discussion and helpful work
being circulated through the listserv.
Best regards,
Sophia
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Sophia Krzys Acord
The University of Exeter
www.socarts.net/sophia <http://www.socarts.net/sophia>
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