anarchival materiality

  • RAI Film Seminar: Anarchival Materiality in Archives

    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 ๐—”๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—”๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐˜€ Speakers: ๐——๐—ฟ ๐—ž๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—›๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐˜† (Simon Fraser University) ๐——๐—ฟ […]

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  • Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge project essay on ‘Anarchival Materiality’

    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 […]

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  • Field/Works Presentation: Fugitive Structures

    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 […]

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  • New publication: “Anarchival Materiality: the Bauhaus Building in Dessau”

    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 โ€œAnarchival 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. […]

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