{"id":1478,"date":"2012-09-05T21:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/?p=1083"},"modified":"2012-09-05T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T21:59:12","slug":"ethnographic-terminalia-reviewed-in-american-anthropologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/ethnographic-terminalia-reviewed-in-american-anthropologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnographic Terminalia reviewed in American Anthropologist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ethnographic Terminalia 2009, Crane Arts, Philadelphia. Photo by Fiona P. McDonald.<\/p><\/div>\n

An extended review of Ethnographic Terminalia by Shelly Errington (UC Santa Cruz) has just been published in the journal American Anthropologist<\/em>. The review addresses our first three years of exhibition (Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Montr\u00e9al) and traces theoretical and methodological connections to broader movements in anthropology and contemporary art. The full article can be downloaded on the Ethnographic Terminalia website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An excerpt from the review:<\/p>\n

“Forty or 50 years ago, any anthology or book with\u00a0the words \u201canthropology\u201d and \u201cart\u201d prominent in its title\u00a0was almost certainly devoted to anthropological theorizing\u00a0about the works of formerly colonized peoples. No more,\u00a0and not for a while.\u00a0Lately, anthropologists have been experimenting in\u00a0new nontextual visual, aural, and plastic forms, and in\u00a0digital pieces combining text, sound, and images (moving\u00a0and still). Either alone or by collaborating with artists, they\u00a0have been producing work that acts on the world, uses\u00a0it, explores it, collaborates with it\u2014in ways that may be\u00a0evocative and thought provoking, sometimes politically\u00a0charged, sometimes educational, and sometimes quite\u00a0beautiful and intriguing to see or hear. Artists, for their\u00a0part, have since the 1970s adopted materials and practices\u00a0that may be reminiscent of participant-observation and\u00a0ethnographic methods (and are often called that), or which\u00a0may overlap with other anthropological preoccupations\u00a0or subject matter. (On encounters between art and\u00a0anthropology, see Schneider and Wright 2006, 2010.)<\/em><\/div>\n

\nThe Curatorial Collective of \u201cEthnographic Terminalia,\u201d an exhibition of Art and Anthropology, seeks to promote and encourage crossover works and experiments. ET\u00a0has taken place as a temporary exhibit in conjunction with\u00a0the annual AAA meetings in 2009, 2010, and 2011, and will\u00a0take place again in 2012 in venues outside the convention\u00a0hall but coordinated in the program through the Society for\u00a0Visual Anthropology (see Figure 1). After the \ufb01rst exhibit,\u00a0ET had local af\ufb01liates\u2014Art Spill in New Orleans (2010)\u00a0and CEREV (Centre for Ethnographic Research in the Aftermath of Violence) in Montreal (2011); the Curatorial\u00a0Collective also invited known artists to \u201canchor\u201d the exhibits\u00a0prior to the call for submissions. And as of the third, the\u00a0exhibits have themes: \u201cField, Studio, Lab\u201d in 2011, \u201cAudible\u00a0Observatories\u201d in 2012. Artist biographies and commentary\u00a0can be seen on ET\u2019s well-designed and informative website\u00a0(http:\/\/ethnographicterminalia.org)…<\/em><\/div>\n

… The works in ET will probably never replace textual\u00a0ethnographies. But the exhibit is a fascinating multidimensional\u00a0portal through which we can enter and learn about\u00a0experiments in thought and technology that intrigue, amuse,\u00a0and may even inspire us to attempt new forms for our own\u00a0nonfictional works.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An extended review of Ethnographic Terminalia by Shelly Errington (UC Santa Cruz) has just been published in the journal American Anthropologist. The review addresses our first three years of exhibition (Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Montr\u00e9al) and traces theoretical and methodological connections to broader movements in anthropology and contemporary art. The full article can be downloaded […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,35,46,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hennessy.iat.sfu.ca\/mcl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}