Anthropology and Art Practice

Introduction - Arnd Schneider & Christopher Wright Agit-kino: Iteration No.2 - Craig Campbell, University of Texas at Austin, USA Entrada Prohibida (Forbidden Entry) - Juan Orrantia, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa In Conversation with Christopher Wright - Anthony Luvera, Independent Australian Artsist, Writer and Educator based in London, UK Traversing Art Practices and Anthropology: Notes on Ambiguity and Epistemological Uncertainty - Thera Mjaaland, Independent Photographer and Social Anthropologist, Norway Surgery Lessons - Christina Lammer, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria A Word is Not Always Just a Word, Sometimes It is an Image - Kathryn Ramey, Emerson College, USA Out of Hand: Reflections on Elsewhereness - Robert Willim, Lund University, Sweden On Collections and Collectivity - Brad Butler & Karen Mizr, Independent Artists and Filmmakers, UK In Conversation with Christopher Wright - Raul Ortega Ayala, Independent Artist, Mexico In-between - Jennifer Deger, The Australian National University, Australia An Imaginary Line: Active Pass to IR9 - Kate Hennesey, Simon Fraser University, Canada Dancing in the Abyss - Living with Liminality - Ruth Jones, Artist and Curator based in Wales, UK In Conversation with Helen Lundbye Petersen - Yvette Brackman, Independent Artist, Denmark With(In) Each Other: Sensorial Practices in Recent Audiovisual Work - Laurent Van Lancker, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany In Praise of Slow Motion - Caterina Pasqualino, researcher, CNRS/LAIOS, France Sky-larks: an Exploration of a Collaboration Between Art, Anthropology and Science - Rupert Cox, University of Manchester, UK & Andrew Carlyle, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK Bibliography Index

Arnd Schneider is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Christopher Wright is a lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK where he teaches visual anthropology.

Those familiar with the two previous outstanding collections edited by Schneider and Wright, examining the relationships between art and anthropology, will find this addition, making a trilogy, equally indispensable. The distinctive value of this collection is indeed its close examination of 'practice' amid the growing importance of thinking and experiment that blurs the boundaries between anthropological research and artistic intervention. No other work better shows, rather than tells, what 'keywords' like performance, collaboration, participation, installation, and curatorial/ ethnographic method mean in this lively realm of the senses, imagination, and contemporary curating. George E. Marcus, Director, Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine One of the most promising directions for new research into contemporary art practice can be found in the rapprochement between art history and anthropology, as artists increasingly find themselves working in complex social contexts beyond the confines of galleries and museums. Schneider and Wright's collection provides an invaluable compendium of current research at this important disciplinary intersection. Grant Kester is Professor of Art History at UCSD, USA and author of 'The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context'