Anthropologies of Art Network - A/A

10/09/2024

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨

The MSA invites YOU to join us in the historic city of Prague from July 14-18, 2025, for our 9th Annual Conference! 🌍✨

The theme, Beyond Crises: Resilience and (In)stability, will explore how memory shapes our world in times of crisis and recovery. We welcome proposals from scholars, practitioners, and activists in diverse fields! 📚💡

📅 Submit your proposals (in English) by October 20, 2024! Let's shape the future of memory studies together.

For more details, visit the conference website.

🔗 https://msaprague2025.dryfta.com/index.php

13/07/2024

EASA’s Anthropology of the Arts network + Arts of the Working Class street journal + MACBA are organising the workshop: ‘Flipping the coin: Anthropology, art, and the potential of of ideas in circulation’ 💥💥

👉July 24 at 7.30pm in MACBA’s Aula 0 space - Barcelona.
👉 RSVP for one of the few remaining spots at https://bit.ly/3xBDY0z.

Together, we’ll reconsider the methodologies and forms of academic research so as to better create dialogue with research practice beyond the institution. What might “undoing” anthropology imply? How can we reimagine and reconfigure what it means to do anthropology today? How can we find new ways of doing and undoing in the broadest possible sense? And maybe, most importantly: Can anthropologists open up discussions surrounding their research to broader publics? How might we flip the coin to consider an anthropological and curatorial revision of art into meanings and systems from the streets?

Part of the European Association of Social Anthropologists 2024 conference, the workshop is led by the ANTART convenors, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, Giuliana Borea and Francesca Cozzolino, and María Inés Plaza Lazo, editor and founder of AOWC, in conversation with María Berríos, Director of Curatorial Programmes and Research at MACBA, and artist and producer Michael Hart.

Find out more via artsoftheworkingclass.org and https://easaonline.org/networks/antart/

23/01/2024

Authoring histories, manifesting futures

In this article, just published in Terremoto, Curator Alex Ungprateeb Flynn speaks with artist Aline Motta on erasure, diaspora, and the blurring of boundaries between what is known and what is imagined.

Water is a time machine in the investigation of our family histories. We make, we project, we erase, in a continual process of speculation on the positioning of our bodies in relation to others in this world. Aline Motta’s practice enters into dialogue with erasure, diaspora, and the blurring...

23/12/2023

Call for papers for the in-person conference panel 'Reconfiguring and expanding practices: Anthropology and the curatorial' that will take place at next year's European Association of Social Anthropologists biennial conference in Barcelona July 23-26, 2024.

Please submit a short abstract of max 300 characters and a long abstract of max 250 words by January 22, 2024 👇

https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2024/p/14855

P245 Reconfiguring and expanding practices: Anthropology and the curatorial

Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (University of California, Los Angeles)
Giuliana Borea (Newcastle University)
Francesca Cozzolino (Ecoles nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs)

Short Abstract:
This panel differentiates between curating as a tool and the curatorial as an expanded practice that includes knowledge production, writing, spatiality, institutional mediation, and pedagogy. How might the curatorial propose a reconfiguration of an anthropological project contextualised by crisis?

Long Abstract:
Over the past years, the anthropological discipline has increasingly turned its gaze toward curating as a tool. While such a move has engendered productive exchange, an understanding has developed of curating as a technical modality, a means to bring anthropological work to new publics and open the discipline. While such efforts are welcome, following Irit Rogoff, this panel draws a distinction between ‘curating’ as a specific and one-off event, and ‘the curatorial’, expanded practice that includes knowledge production, writing, spatial politics, institutional mediation, and pedagogy. The instrumentalisation of curating is of course mirrored by the instrumentalisation of anthropology; just as anthropologists might experiment with modes of display, curators might engage with the anthropological discipline in a piecemeal fashion. Initial contact is a mere prelude to more profound engagement however, and In this panel we wish to address: in this expanded mode, what are the specificities that anthropologists working as curators can bring to both fields of practice? Contextualised by growing inequalities and the neoliberal academy, what are the potentials for an expanded pedagogy premised on multi-sensoriality and a new public access? What is the possibility of such a project to counter the epistemologies of an on-going coloniality through collaborative networks that welcome dissident bodies, diverse beings, and expanded relationalities? How might the curatorial and its oft-stated commitment to heal, from its etymological root of ‘curare’ propose a reimagination and reconfiguration of the 21st century anthropological project contextualized by times of crisis?

24/06/2023

The theme of the 60th Venice Biennial which opens in April 2024 has been revealed: Foreigners Everywhere. This enigmatic phrase, put forward by the biennale’s curator Adriano Pedrosa, comes from a series of neon artworks by Claire Fontaine. Pedrosa, director of São Paulo’s MASP museum, is the first Latin American curator of the Venice Biennial.

To understand a little more about the collective's political stance and textual work, check out the interview that Leonardo Araujo and Alex Ungprateeb Flynn conducted with Claire Fontaine about temporality, activism, and the relationship between art and knowledge production. The interview forms part of the book 'Claire Fontaine: In view of a ready-made practice', which presents several of the collective’s key texts translated into Portuguese. The book is available from GLAC edições.

Check out the interview here:
https://alexungprateebflynn.com/claire-fontaine-in-conversation-with-the-editors

11/06/2023

The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Anthropology and the Arts (ANTART) network event "Re-worlding relations: Anthropology, art, and design" will take place on November 10-11, 2023 at Newcastle University. The event proposes a workshop space to present research and share ideas. If you are interested in participating, please read the CFP below and submit an abstract by 16 June. The event covers accommodation for two nights and breakfast and lunch.

Guest speakers:
Prof. Barbara Glowczewski (French National Scientific Research Center)
Prof. Anna Maria Guasch (University of Barcelona)

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 16 June 2023

In this workshop we take up the concept of worlding to explore practices of arranging the world otherwise and to test a theoretical compass mediated by sensibility and sustainability. Worlding is an idea with a complex genealogy despite, or perhaps because of, its Heideggarian lineage which Gayatari Spivak locates as central to the maintenance of an ongoing coloniality. And yet, worlding allows us to enact a plurality of thinking and practice to contest hegemonic structures, values, and ways of being. It also centres material processes and practices as the means to glimpse how to craft alternative forms of life and relations. We wish to explore: How might anthropology, art, and design - each deeply relational modes of knowledge production and sensory experience – come together to refract the course of a universal modernity? How might such alliances propose alternative forms of organisation and living in-with the world(s)? How might anthropology, art, and design set out paths of re-worlding for new sensible and sustainable relations that move us toward a pluriversal existence? How might such processes occur, be they in the studio, the academy, or virtually through digital forms? What forms of narrativisation and what kinds of knowledge might be produced by re-worlding processes? We welcome academic and artistic contributions pertaining, but not limited to, the sustainability of relations and concomitant materialities of anthropological and artistic practice, extensions of worlding projects from society to ecology to aesthetics, and projects involving anthropologists and artists that propose a re-worlding of relations.

Please submit a 250-word abstract in English, or for an artistic contribution, an image and an abstract, to [email protected] no later than 16 June 2023. Decisions will be communicated by July 7, 2023.

ANTART Convenors:
Giuliana Borea (Newcastle University and PUCP)
Francesca Cozzolino (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris and LESC/ Université de Paris Nanterre)
Alex Ungprateeb Flynn (University of California, Los Angeles)
Kiven Strohm (National University of Singapore)

Website: https://easaonline.org/networks/antart/

The poster features the work of Denilson Baniwa, image courtesy of the artist.

01/02/2023

CURATOR JOB (tenure-track)

Would you like to focus on the entanglement of artworks and/or other (physical) objects, people and (artistic) spaces in curatorial and exhibitionary contexts?

02/01/2023

Happy New Year!

22/08/2022

Professorship

Ethnologies of nature

Job title: Associate Professor in Cultural Studies (228589), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, August 28, 2022

22/08/2022

Postdoc

Postdoctoral Researcher Creativity, Authenticity, and Cultural Mediation

02/08/2022

Horniman Museum and Gardens JOB alert for anthropologists