This past summer, artist John Wynne installed his exhibition Anspayaxw at the ‘Ksan Museum gallery in Gitxsan territory, in the town of Hazelton, British Columbia. Last year I wrote an essay about Wynne’s Anspayaxw for the Museum of Anthropology at UBC’s Border Zones exhibit called Asymmetrical Translations: The Art of John Wynne (you can read it […]
I have just returned from teaching in the third annual Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School in Lamphun, Thailand. This year, in addition to learning about community histories and curatorial practices local Thai museums in the northern city of Lamphun, and about the 2003 UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, […]
I will be teaching again this year in northern Thailand in the Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museums Field School, which is being held for the third year in Lamphun, Northern Thailand, from August 8-21. The Field School is organized by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) in Bangkok, with support from UNESCO Bangkok. This year […]
On June 14th 2011 I gave a talk at the Berkman Center at Harvard University. Very many thanks to Mike Ananny and Amar Ashar for organizing this. The talk was webcast and archived in as many media forms as one could ever want! They are all here. Abstract: Ethnographies of Access, Ownership, and Collaboration in the […]
Visual Anthropology Review (Vol 27, Issue 1) was just published, and I am excited to say that it includes six pieces related to our Ethnographic Terminalia exhibit in New Orleans in November, 2010: an introduction to the project written by the curatorial collective, a curatorial essay by Craig Campbell, a piece about the project in […]
In June 2011 I traveled north to Inuvik, where I spent a week working with my colleagues Mervin Joe (Parks Canada) and Catherine Cockney (Manager, Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre) to conduct consultations with local partners, community members, elders, and school children and teachers about the prototype of our work in progress, the Inuvialuit Living History […]
I was privileged to co-author a chapter in this volume edited by Brian Swann, Born in the Blood: On Native American Translation, just published by University of Nebraska Press. Our chapter “Ethnopoetic Translation in Relation to Audio, Video, and New Media Representations”, written with Robin Ridington, Jillian Ridington, Patrick Moore, and Amber Ridington, explores some […]
A full description of this project in progress can be found in our 2011 Project Report: The Inuvialuit Smithsonian Project: Winter 2009-Spring 2011 During our visit at the National Museum of Natural History in 2009, elder Albert Elias described the MacFarlane Collection as a “living collection”. As curator Stephen Loring pulled intricate and beautiful items […]
[reposted from the CEREV Lab Blog:] On May 17th, CEREV will host the first in a pair of curatorial workshops led by Ethnographic Terminalia curatorial collective 2011 curators Trudi Lynn Smith (York University), Fiona P. McDonald (U C London) and Kate Hennessy (Simon Fraser University, SIAT), and CEREV-based curatorial research group members Erica Lehrer, Florencia […]
On April 16th 2011 I gave a talk at the University of British Columbia’s School of Archival, Library, and Information Studies. Thank you very much to Lisa Nathan and Eric Myers for inviting me and for hosting me so nicely that day. The talk was webcast and archived here: Repatriation, Digital Media, and Culture in the […]