ANTART Team invites you all for the second meeting of the ANTART monthly gathering series,
13 November, 10:15–11:15 CET, on zoom.
This month, our gathering will focus on how anthropology and the arts can together create more imaginative ethnographies that examine and prefigure possible futures for shared planetary lives.
The gathering will feature a presentation by Dr Jen Clarke (Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University) on her book-in-progress titled Field, Body, Image: Situated Artistic Research and the Making of Ecological Relations (Routledge, 2027).
Field, Body, Image asks what artistic practice does as research, and what is at stake when such work moves between art and anthropology.
Drawing on collaborative artistic research developed through the recent British (UKRI) Treescapes programme, the book follows practices of fieldwork, bodily attention, image-making and exhibition-making to explore how inquiry is composed through encounters, materials, gestures and forms. Rather than treating art as a means of illustrating or communicating knowledge produced elsewhere, Clarke examines how the particular practices and judgements of making contribute to research, and how they transform what can be sensed, questioned and understood.
Building on Dr Clarke’s short presentation, we will then gather to discuss the relationship between artistic research and anthropology, including what each discipline might contribute to, and demand of, the other.
We look forward to seeing you at the gathering!
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Images courtesy of Jen Clarke
Upcoming Gatherings
We will gradually build the program based on members’ interests and availability. The link to each meeting will be sent the day before.
You can see the list of upcoming ANTART gatherings here:
We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing many of you online!
Warm wishes,
The ANTART Convening Team
Petra Beck, Laure Carbonnel, Gili Hammer, Minke Nouwens, Jenny Tang