Laurie Ingram, Material And Visual Culture, UCL Sawdust and Threads is a residency and exhibitions programms that takes de-accessioned museum objects as its material. Artist Caroline Wright has undertaken residencies at three different museum collections and selected objects that have been de-accessioned. For Sawdust and Threads, Caroline has madeContinue Reading
How is money more than mere container and conveyor of value? What happens to money we destroy, alter, or simply stop using? How do the materials and the making of money matter? Artists and craftspeople are highly attuned to these questions of money, aesthetics, and exchange. Political cartoonists offer directContinue Reading
Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2013 Theme: The Human in the World, the World in the Human Australian National University 6-8 November 2013 The theme of this conference embraces anthropology’s enduring commitments to grappling with the human condition in the widest terms. Yet it also directs attention to the waysContinue Reading
The Salvage Art Institute, a New York based project started by artist Elka Krajewska, surveys, catalogues, and investigates the status and value of art objects once they succumb to the effects of decay, damage or destruction. Its mission statement reads: Salvage Art Institute works to confront and articulate the conditionContinue Reading
By Eugenia Kisin, Anthropology, NYU “Assemblage has been something that has been part of our fabric, the art historical fabric, since the beginning of time. If you think about the notion of hunters and gatherers, until we became an agricultural society 10,000 years ago, that is how we found ourContinue Reading
Amy Hinterberger, Research Fellow, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS), School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford Convened by the BioProperty Research Programme, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, 20 & 21 September 2012 Objects of property have many lives. This international conference explored the paths that scientificContinue Reading
Reflections on Culture Works: Space, Value and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas (NYU Press 2012), Arlene Davila, NYU Anthropology Each book has an ethos, and a lot of my work has been led by a critical angst on the mainstreaming of Latino culture, which is also reflected in Culture Works: Space,Continue Reading