*CALL FOR PAPERS*, due by 8th January 2018.
We are pleased to invite papers for the panel *Bodies of Archives/Archival
Bodies (P029)*.
Feel free to forward on!
This is part of the Art, Materiality and Representation Conference hosted
by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) at The British Museum, Clore
Centre and SOAS, London, 1st-3rd June 2018.
Convenors: Jennifer Clarke (Gray's School of Art, RGU), Giulia Battaglia
(Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Fiona Siegenthaler (University of Basel)
*Abbreviated Abstract*
This panel calls for academic and artistic interventions that discuss
objects, images *and/or bodies* as archives of experiences and processes.
Our panel begins with the premise that archives, prone to decay,
dissolution and re-arrangement, are permanently in process. Our interest is
not limited to objects, but also to the idea of the body (or collective
bodies) as archives of experience.
In particular, we are interested in the archive's potential for
collaborative artistic and ethnographic practices: What forms of
collaborative work does the archive offer? In what ways can the collective
sensibility of the archive be explored? What can we gain from a
process-based notion of the archive? What implications does this have on
the role of the archive in art and anthropology, and for the practices
related to it in particular?
*Please provide a proposal by 8th January 2018 to the following online form*
:
http://nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6079
Proposals must consist of a paper title, a short abstract of less than 300
characters and an abstract of 250 words. The inclusion of multimedia, film,
audio, or other elements as part of the presentation would be very welcome.
Please contact the convenors if you would like any further information.
For further details about the overall conference please see:
https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/art-materiality-and-representation
Full Abstract (also attached as pdf):
The concept of the 'archive' had arguably received insufficient critical
attention in anthropology until relatively recently despite its central
role in research practices. However, recent work has highlighted the
significance of archives for the future of anthropology (Kohl 2013), and
ideas about the 'archive' as a static repository of history are being
challenged. Interdisciplinary experimentations with forms of
archive/archiving are increasingly emerging (cf. the anarchive) raising
important questions about both the collaborative and processural nature of
archives (Manning 2016).
This panel begins with the premise that archives, prone to decay,
dissolution and re-arrangement, are permanently in process (cf.
http://grapaub.org/en/archive/). This perspective enables us to engage with
cleavages and links between past knowledge and future imagination, as well
as the role of representation. Our interest is not limited to objects, but
also to the idea of the body (or collective bodies) as archives of
experience.
In particular, we are interested in the archive's potential for
collaborative artistic and ethnographic practices: What forms of
collaborative work does the archive offer? In what ways can the collective
sensibility of the archive be explored? What can we gain from a
process-based notion of the archive? What implications does this have on
the role of the archive in art and anthropology, and for the practices
related to it in particular?
Through this panel we call for papers and art/media interventions that
explore a variety of contemporary understandings of 'archive' that open up
for individuals, groups and institutions possibilities to produce creative
anthropological and artistic work.
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