Dear colleagues and friends,
We would like to invite paper proposals for Open Panel 168 'The anthropologist and curator: Rethinking content and form’ to be held at the 18th IUAES World Congress, Florianópolis, Brazil, July 16 - 20, 2018. We are interested in contributions from anthropologists, curators and artists, amongst other practitioners, to interrogate the intersection between anthropological and curatorial practice. The panel seeks to open a debate regarding tensions between content and form, how this might impact upon notions of epistemologies of the global south and questions of decoloniality, and what the consequences therein might be for the construction of a contemporary anthropology.
Papers can be submitted in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French. Please do get in touch if you would like to discuss a proposal:
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Submission deadline is February 28. If you would like to make a proposal, upload a title and an abstract with at most 1500 characters via the participant’s area of the IUAES site:
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With best wishes,
Alex and Yudi
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The anthropologist and curator: Rethinking content and form
Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (Durham University, UK) and Yudi Rafael Lemes Koike (Columbia University, USA)
The curator occupies a particular locus within the processuality of art and the production of knowledge. S/he stands at the intersection of starkly different practices: at once immersed in text while deeply embedded in aesthetics, a potential gatekeeper of resources, logistics and production, as much as an intellectual interlocutor and open social interstice. Traversing such terrain, parallels with anthropologists have come to the fore: Tim Ingold writes of anthropology as knowledge practice in movement, a making of the world in collaboration with others. However, concerning aesthetics, curatorial practice shuns anthropological notions of aesthetics as mere vehicle for content; rather, emphasis on form can create a gamut of content possibilities, leaving epistemological outcomes undefined, and new pathways to knowledge therefore latent.
This panel interrogates the intersection between anthropological and curatorial practice. We seek contributions that propose a deconstruction of the anthropologist and/as curator in terms of, but not limited to, translators of worlds, creators of narratives, and knowledge production agents. What does the history of curating tell us about its present and future? How can we rethink, or glimpse the role of the curator today, bearing in mind epistemologies of the global south and questions of decoloniality? How might the tension between content and form intersect with these questions and what might be the consequences for a contemporary anthropology today?
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O/A antropólogo/a e o/a curador/a: repensando conteúdo e forma
Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (Universidade de Durham, Reino Unido) e Yudi Rafael Lemes Koike (Universidade de Columbia, EUA)
O curador ocupa um lugar particular entre a processualidade da arte e a produção de conhecimento. Ele/a se situa na interseção de práticas claramente distintas: ao mesmo tempo imerso em texto e profundamente envolvido em estética, constitui um mediador, em potencial, de recursos, logística e produção, assim como um interlocutor e um interstício social aberto. Cruzando este campo, paralelos com antropólogos/as tem vindo a tona: Tim Ingold descreve a antropologia como prática de conhecimento em movimento, uma criação do mundo em colaboração com outros/as. No entanto, a prática curatorial se afasta de noções antropológicas da estética enquanto mero veículo de conteúdo; para o/a curador/a, a ênfase na forma pode criar uma gama de possibilidades de conteúdo, deixando indefinidos seus desdobramentos epistemológicos, assim como latentes novos caminhos de conhecimento.
Este painel visa discutir as interseções entre práticas antropológicas e curatoriais. Buscamos contribuições que visem discutir o antropólogo e / ou curador em termos de, entre outros, tradutores de mundos, produtores de narrativas e agentes de produção de conhecimento. que a história da curadoria nos conta sobre seu presente e futuro? Como podemos vislumbrar ou repensar o papel do curador hoje, tendo em mente as epistemologias do sul global e questões de descolonialidade? Como pode a tensão entre conteúdo e forma relacionar-se com tais questões, e quais suas conseqüências para pensar uma antropologia contemporânea?
Dr Alex Flynn
Assistant Professor (Research) | Department of Anthropology | Durham University
alexflynn.net<http://alexflynn.net/>
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