The exhibition The Water We Call Home opens at the Yellowhouse Art Centre on Galiano Island on July 23, 2022. Read more about it in this news story from Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. “The Water We Call Home, an exhibition featuring a series of films created by School of Interactive […]
Kate recently met with the exciting Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge research group in Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge based at the 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 […]
The Ethnographic Termialia Collective (Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Craig Campbell, Fiona P. McDonald and Stephanie Takaragawa) has published a chapter “Function and Form: the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective Between Art and Anthropology” in this exciting new book edited by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus. Collaborative Anthropology Today A Collection of Exceptions EDITED BY DOMINIC […]
In summer of 2018 Kate Hennessy and Hannah Turner collaborated with artist and weaver Meghann O’Brien and digital artist Conrad Sly to produce a new media work titled Wrapped in the Cloud. This media installation is a part of the traveling exhibition Boarder X, curated by Jaimie Issac. Boarder X has just opened at the […]
Kate Hennessy and Trudi Smith are preparing to open their exhibition ‘Fugitives in the Archive’ at the Royal British Columbia Museum. The exhibition runs from Nov. 2 2018 through January 2019. The exhibition is based on their work with the BC Archives in which they interviewed archivists and conservators about objects that acted in unexpected […]
The journal Visual Anthropology Review recently published a “VAR Supplement” video to accompany Monique Scott’s review, “White Walls, ‘Black City’: Reflections on “Exhibition as Residency—Art, Anthropology, Collaboration”. It “discusses efforts to resuscitate the image of the anthropology exhibitions for contemporary audiences. Her review specifically considers the exhibition organized by Ethnographic Terminalia at the Arts Incubator […]