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Creativity and Labor: Artists, Anthropology, and Knowledge-making
Panel Proposal for the 108th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
December 2-6, 2009, Philadelphia, PA
Abstract:
Recent scholarship has shown that anthropologists and artists both appropriate from and translate other realities. Our panel inquires into the knowledge-making practices of artists (broadly defined) to see how an examination of these practices can inform anthropological pursuits.
We propose to explore various historical and geopolitical configurations of creativity and labor. In Western public culture, the distinction between acts of creation (“art”) and acts of production (“labor”) is so naturalized that it appears to be common sense. Creativity is often posited as spontaneous, individualized, and gifted, yet outside the mundane, anonymous, and monotonous realm of productive labor. In contrast, early Soviet art practitioners, for example, developed a socialist model of art that worked in deliberate opposition to such a separation. Artists were ostensibly workers. Art-making was a public service that was rewarded through the patronage of the state.
We seek papers that would complicate this naturalized set of connections between labor and creativity and discuss how cultural producers articulate the conjuncture between the two in different historical, political and cultural contexts. Themes we hope to explore include, but are not limited to, the following: innovation, genius, commodification, value, authenticity, distinction, emotion, affect, vulnerability, risk, subject formation, and visuality.
We invite interested participants to submit abstracts (250 words) for 15-minute papers to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by March 15th, 2009.
Co-organizers: Thet Shein Win (Stanford University, [log in to unmask]), Zhanara Nauruzbayeva (Stanford University, [log in to unmask])
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