Coming Together Differently: Art, Anthropology and the Curatorial Space.
- Submitting institution
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Robert Gordon University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Winter_2
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
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- Book title
- The anthropologist as curator
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781350081901
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- As a curator and writer I have an ongoing interest in the relationship between art and anthropology, or more accurately the location of the curator and anthropologist. The chapter emerged through discussion with Professor Roger Sansi exploring art beyond materiality and representation. My initial research interest was to explore this ambiguous relationship between art and anthropology, and to investigate any common ground. I also wanted to explore any an
alternative ways of looking at curatorial space that recognised different disciplinary conventions, beyond the circular debates concerning ‘art and ethnography’ so insightfully described by Hal Foster. This research was intended to speak across disciplinary boundaries and open up our understanding of the history of the ‘curatorial’. I was particularly interested to write something on the plethora of professional knowledge and experience beyond academia, that needs to be acknowledged. In recent years it has become clear that the definition of the ‘curator’ and ‘the curatorial’ has become an all encompassing term: the curator as everything else, the curator as ethnographer, the curator as mediator and so on. As someone working in an artist-led and site responsive way, I was interested to
show how the role of the curator is constantly shifting in response and accord to contemporary practice and changing conditions. In this expanded field of practice, curators and artists embraced experimentation, chance and ways of working that questioned traditional categories. Curators like artists, started to take in divergent roles: travellers, scientists, narrators, thinkers, social and political agitators, and so on. What may be interesting about the current debates concerning art and anthropology, is the way the discourse helps manifest and make visible diverse and contradictory ways of knowing.
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- Non-English
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