Dear friends and colleagues,
Please find below details on the Contemporary Anthropologies of Art workshop to be held at Durham University, 9th September.
The programme is attached and all are welcome.
All the best,
Alex
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Contemporary Anthropologies of Art | One day workshop at Durham University
Wednesday 9th September 2015
Seminar room, Dawson Building, Durham University
All welcome to attend. To register, please email Alex Flynn ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) or Jonas Tinius ([log in to unmask])
Keynote
Professor Arnd Schneider (University of Oslo)
«Art/Anthropology: Epistemologies, Ethics and Uneven Hermeneutics»
Objectives
Building on such established anthropological approaches to art as those of Alfred Gell or Pierre Bourdieu, this workshop seeks to map out contemporary anthropological approaches to art. Furthermore, by asking what distinct views on artistic practices are offered by new theoretical perspectives such as ethnographic conceptualism (Ssorin-Chaikov 2013) or relational aesthetics (Sansi 2014), we hope to propose new pathways of anthropological inquiry.
A key proposition behind this workshop is the idea that contemporary art theory and practice are increasingly in dialogue with theories of sociality – how we relate to other people to create meaning – and therefore connected to core anthropological interests. The objective of this workshop is therefore not just to apply existing anthropological theory to potentially new ethnographic situations characterised by the production of art, but to develop anthropological theory through an engagement with the conceptual approaches that underpin the contemporary production of art today.
The premise we wish to interrogate with this workshop is thus that there is something distinct about contemporary artistic practices. If this is so, what would a contemporary anthropology of art – or rather – contemporary anthropologies of art look like?
As the inaugural research event of the Anthropologies of Art [A/A]<http://www.anthropologies-of-art.net> network, we wish to propose this digital platform as a space to map, link, and interrogate answers to these two questions.
Speakers
Alex Flynn (Anthropology, Durham University)
Amanda Ravetz (Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Johannes Sjöberg (Screen Studies, University of Manchester)
Jonas Tinius (Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Lidia Rossner (Visual Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin)
Nayanika Mookherjee (Anthropology, University of Durham)
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Higher School of Economics, St Petersburg)
Pedro Cesarino (Anthropology, Universidade de São Paulo)
Rafael Schacter (Anthropology, University College London)
Roger Sansi (Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London and Universitat de Barcelona)
Dr Alex Flynn
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow | Department of Anthropology | Durham University
New book | Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance<http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/anthropology-theatre-and-development-alex-flynn/?K=9781137350596>
alexflynn.net<http://alexflynn.net/> | @alexanderjflynn
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