EXHIBITION STATEMENT Becoming Anarchival is a collaboration between artist-ethnographers Trudi Lynn Smith and Kate Hennessy that activates instability and impermanence as generative forces in museums and archives. Over the past decade, they have oriented their writing and art practice toward the anarchival, both as transformative disruption and as a methodology for engaging time-based media and […]
MCL PhD candidate Tylar Campbell has just published his article “Deep Roots, Bama Soil: Narrative Multimodal Anthropology and Fugitive Histories” in a forthcoming special issue of the journal Museum Anthropology on Black Museum Anthropology, edited by Deborah Johnson. Congratulations Tylar on this exceptional contribution! Read the open access article here. Fig. 9. Tylar Campbell discovers […]
Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith were recently invited to presented their research-creation work in film, video,ย and photography in a Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Seminar. We hope to share the recording of the session soon. RAI Film Seminar, April 29th 2022 ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ Speakers: ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ป๐ฒ๐๐๐ (Simon Fraser University) ๐๐ฟ […]
Kate recently met with the exciting Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge research group inย Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge based at theย Bern University of the Arts, Institute Materiality in Arts and Culture, Switzerland. They recently published this short essay on the presentation and work. She discussed questions of conservation of ethnographic documentation and possibilities for the expression of […]
From the Field/Works exhibition, Anthropology/Art Network of the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA): We proudly announce the 11th Field/Works Antart session! On May 13 2021, Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith will talk about their project. Fugitive Structures: The Bauhaus Building in Dessau is a series of five risograph images remediating the Bauhaus building […]
Trudi Lynn Smith and I are honored to present our risograph print remediations of buildings and materials from the Bauhaus campus in Dessau in a chapter โAnarchival Materiality: The Bauhaus Building in Dessauโ that we co-authored with Oliver Neumann. Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press 2019) is edited by Laura Forlano, Molly Wright Steenson, and Mike Ananny. […]