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Call for Papers / Proposed Session
Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association
San Francisco, CA, November 19-23, 2008
Panel title: What Do Anthropologists Have to Say about Public Art?
Organizers: Anru Lee (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY) and Helen Regis (Louisiana State University)
This panel began as a question that the panelists asked about their own involvements in community (re)building that center on cultural activities and artistic creations in urban settings. Viewing public art as a venue for civil society and public participation, we are interested in the following issues: What part could, or should, anthropologists play in helping defining the “publicness” of a public art endeavor? What skills or expertise could anthropologists contribute to the process? In their collaboration with artists who are essentially the creators of the final (public art) products and who are increasingly adopting an ethnographic approach, what different perspectives could an anthropologist bring to the process? To what extent – and in what ways – could or should anthropologists separate their roles/identities as researcher/ethnographer, concerned citizen, and community activist or a member of the community? Ultimately, what do
anthropologists have to say about public art that artists and/or grassroots cultural workers and activists cannot say (for) themselves? How does ethnographic engagement with public art produce new theoretical insights? This panel explores the unique contribution that anthropologists can make to the study of public art. We seek to go beyond art criticism and narrowly defined political economic analysis of social relations of production and consumption.
Please send your 250-word abstract, including title and your affiliation to both Anru Lee ([log in to unmask]) and Helen Regis ([log in to unmask]) as soon as possible. Thank you.
Anru Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
The City University of New York
TEL: (212) 237-8571; FAX: (212) 237-8937
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