NELSON HANCOCK GALLERY

I recently discovered a great gem in the online archive of the Tate. This link will take you to a program of lectures delivered in 2003 on the subject of Art and Anthropology. You'll need Real Player to watch the streaming videos. They pulled together an excellent array of scholars and artists to speak on the subject. Here's the Tate's blurb on the event:

Recent shifts in art and anthropology suggest an apparent overlap between the concerns and practices of those working in each field. The increasing use of ‘fieldwork’ by many artists and the ‘ethnographic turn’ described by art theorists, invite comparisons with anthropology. In anthropology, critiques of ethnography and fieldwork have raised fundamental questions about the nature of representation – questions which have implications for art. Can developments in each field illuminate the principles and practices of the other? What similarities and differences exist in how artists and anthropologists engage with and represent events, experiences, and others?

posted by Nelson on May 10, 2007 11:04 AM