The 2014 Ethnographic Terminalia exhibition “The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera” has opened at Hierarchy Gallery, in Washington D.C. Details can be found on the ETC website. The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera is a thematic reflection on the archive and its discontents. Washington’s identity as the seat of American political power is amplified […]
Last month members of the Inuvialuit Living History Project team called in from Inuvik, Vancouver Island, and the Interior of BC to talk about our collaborative development of the Inuvialuit Living History website and our trip to the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. This was a fun and productive opportunity for our team to have a […]
MCL PhD student Claude Fortin’s 10-week ethnographic field study of Mégaphone, an interactive installation produced by the National Film Board of Canada and the Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, created by Moment Factory and directed by Etienne Paquette, has been getting some nice shout-outs by the GRAND network and Simon Fraser University (here and here).
Kate Hennessy delivered the keynote address at Canada’s History Forum, which took place at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa in conjunction with the Governor General’s Awards in Canadian History Teaching. A video of the presentation, “New Technologies and Access to Cultural Heritage in Museums: From the MacFarlane Collection to Inuvialuit Living History” can be […]
Ethnographic Terminalia is pleased to formally announce our upcoming exhibition this November in Chicago: “Exhibition as Residency–Art, Anthropology, Collaboration” will be taking place 18-22 November 2013 at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park. ‘Exhibition as Residency” is an installation of international collaborative projects that visitors are invited to interact with in the gallery. Join us […]
Ethnographic Terminalia is pleased to announce that a *new* iteration of our project will be taking place October 18th-20th, 2013 in New York City at the American Museum of Natural History as part of the Margaret Mead Festival. Ethnographic Terminalia Presents “Seeing Ethnography” with Zoe Bray To spark new conversations at this year’s Mead Film […]
Arnd Schneider and Chris Wright’s new book Anthropology and Art Practice has just been published by Bloomsbury Press. This volume includes a chapter I wrote called ‘An Invisible Line: Active Pass to IR9’. It explores some of the thinking and methodology behind the collaboratively produced video work that Richard Wilson and I produced for […]
On September 14th, the symposium ‘On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community and Creative Practice’ took place at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC in the Ames Theatre. I co-organized this with artist John Wynne (University of the Arts, London) and linguistic anthropologist Tyler Peterson (University of Arizona), and curator Karen Duffek (Museum of Anthropology, UBC). For […]
Shelley Butler’s review of Ethnographic Terminalia: Field, Studio, Lab at Eastern Bloc Centre for New Media and Interdisciplinary Arts in Montréal (2011) has been published in the latest issue of the journal Museum and Curatorial Studies Review. My sincere thanks to Shelley for her nuanced and detailed discussion of this exhibition and the works we […]