Waste by Jennifer Wenzel
Waste is a tricky word. In our meditations in Somatosphere, waste hews toward its concrete sense as discard: material byproducts of some transformative process, metabolic or mechanical; things…
Tag: art
What mysteries could be unlocked by new Antikythera shipwreck finds?
Excavation has revealed fragments of bronze sculpture and raises the possibility of several buried statues in the area. So what do these discoveries tell us? The shipwreck at…
What mysteries could be unlocked by new Antikythera shipwreck finds?
Excavation has revealed fragments of bronze sculpture and raises the possibility of several buried statues in the area. So what do these discoveries tell us? The shipwreck at…
How subversive artists made thrift shopping cool
Over the past 100 years, visual artists probably deserve the most credit for thrift shopping’s place in the cultural milieu.
Margaret’s Mead: C&A’s First Zine
Last week, we printed off the first zine produced by the Culture & Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It’s a collaborative effort with essays, art, and…
Wisdom Without a Country
In the oasis of his studio, Constantin Brâncuși revolutionized sculpture by drawing out the “being that is within matter”—the cosmic essence or spirit that exists underneath the surface.…
Interview: Sonic Rupture by Jordan Lacey
Sonic Rupture: A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design (Bloomsbury 2016) by Jordan Lacey offers a practice-led alternative approach to urban soundscape design. Rather than understanding the…
Interview: Is Berlin done with walls? #MMTW
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW) evolves by “settling” into one site after another. In each location, the workshop works with a local institution. For this month’s exhibition…
Reorganized Organ: youth mentorship project
Are you an artist, musician, hacker, tinkerer, or generally a curious person, between 18 and 24 years?
Capturing the Art of Imprisonment
Over the span of about four decades, the late Russian artist Vasily Konovalenko (1929–1989) produced more than 70 wonderful gem-carving sculptures that depict themes and scenes of Russian…
Capturing the Art of Imprisonment
Over the span of about four decades, the late Russian artist Vasily Konovalenko (1929–1989) produced more than 70 wonderful gem-carving sculptures that depict themes and scenes of Russian…
Visual Anthropology Revisited, pt 2
We like to bring you some of our favorite conversations from our catalogue as we think about new ways to explore the topic. This week we’re bringing you…
Visual Anthropology Revisited, pt 2
We like to bring you some of our favorite conversations from our catalogue as we think about new ways to explore the topic. This week we’re bringing you…
Visualising the past: crafting respectability in Seychelles and London #ThinkingVisually
In some research contexts, it is all but impossible to neglect the visual. Prior to beginning research on knowledge and intimacy in Seychelles and in London (with the…
Sonic Breakdown, Extinction and Memory
by Lina Dib Originally published in continent 6(1) CC BY 2.0 DOWNLOAD PDF (https://soundcloud.com/continent/lina-dib-sonic-breakdown-extinction-and-memory) This soundtrack features sounds of environme…
#EVENTS: On Art and Activism
It’s EVENTS’ time again!! From England, to The Netherlands, to Portugal, and all the way to Australia with a stop in Houston to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of…
The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop: An Interview with Susan Ossman
Anthropologist and writer Helen Faller interviews Susan Ossman, Artistic Director of the Moving Matters Traveling Workshop and professor of Anthropology a University of California, Riverside. Helen: …
Interview with Radio Ava, sexworker radio in London
In February I was interviewed by RadioAva (DIY sexworker radio, a project of x:talk). When I arrived at the pub in mid-afternoon a fight was blowing up in…
Aesthetics or Ethnography? Notes on the Amsterdam Anthropology Lecture Series (AALS)
Photography by Omar, one of Termeer’s respondents By Matthias Teeuwen When one thinks of a Muslim artist in the Netherlands one naturally thinks of someone who, with his…
FreeThink #4: On Art, Creativity, and Bringing Awe back to Anthropology
As you may have noticed, TAL has been on a bit of a break from releasing new episodes. But, the good news is that we have not been…
FreeThink #4: On Art, Creativity, and Bringing Awe back to Anthropology
As you may have noticed, TAL has been on a bit of a break from releasing new episodes. But, the good news is that we have not been…
Reader reviews of The Three-Headed Dog
Reviewers of The Three-Headed Dog have been showing they get it: The detective-narrator is a woman with a complicated and conflicted interior life. It’s about how migrants sneak…
Being and being reviewed: Books as pieces of self
Being and being reviewed is a play on the English title of Kajsa Ekis Ekman’s book Varat och varan: Being and being bought. Hers is an ideological diatribe…
Sexwork and migration fiction, part 3: Location and nation
Every reviewer has to mention a different defect in the book under review: That was my conclusion when reviews of Sex at the Margins were proliferating. Some of…