Seminar in Visual Anthropology

"Experimenting the Visual in Art and Anthropology: The Ethics of Research and Collab

The aim of the seminar is to reveal the bridges between the two disciplines of art and anthropology, and to show the different ways practitioners from these fields work with ethnography, fieldwork and the arts. Ethics, aesthetics and methodology will be central themes.

Skiboli, Gløshaugen, NTNU
29 – 30 October, 2008
29th October (Wednesday) Exhibition and seminar

18.00 – 18.15 Exhibition and seminar opening by Arnd Schneider visual anthropologist, (UiO) and Ruth Woods (NTNU)

18.15 – 19.00 Presentation by artist Tomas Håkki Eriksson
“Det fines folk til alt” – “There are people for everything”

19.00 – 19.45 Presentation by ethnologist and artist Robert Willim (Lund)
“Evocations- Mixing Art and Cultural Analysis”

30th October (Thursday) Seminar and workshop

9.00 – 9.15 Introduction to Thursday’s program by Giedre Jarulaitiene (NTNU)

“Fragments from a childhood”

  • 10.00 – 10.45 Presentation by anthropologist Martin Thomassen (NTNU)

“An ethnographic form”

  • 10.45 - 11.30 Presentation by artist and anthropologist Anna Laine (Gøteborg)

“In Conversation with the Kolam Practice: Presentations of Artistic Experiences in South India”

  • 11.30 – 12.30 Lunch break

  • 12.30 – 13.00 Arnd Schneider’s introduction to the workshop

Arnd Schneider will be holding a lecture at the Department of Social Anthropology, Dragvoll at 13:15, 29th October. We recommend that the seminar’s participants go to this lecture.

Registration

All workshop participants are expected to present their PhD project in the exhibition.

Send an email with your name and project title to ruth.woods@ntnu.no or giedre.jarulaitiene@ntnu.no .

The deadline for registration is Tuesday 30.09.2008.