Here’s an article about Dulce Pinzon’s photographic practices. She’s had a lot of press recently so you might have seen this work already.
- http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2010/09/dulce-pinzon/?pid=180
- http://www.dulcepinzon.com/superheroes.htm
Sept. 15
Here is the Buchler article that was missing from the readings this week: buchler2004
Readings for next week
Visual Anthropology III
Marcus, George. 2009. Traffic in art and anthropology: How fieldwork in Theatre Arts might inform the reinvention of fieldwork in anthropology. In Aesthetics and Anthropology. marcus2009
Laister, Judith. 2009. Acting in heterotropia. Other, third and real spaces in public art and theory. In Aesthetics and Anthropology. laister2009
* not required:
Greverus, Ina-Maria. 2009. Touching life: Anthropological encounters with aesthetics. greverus2009
Tasks for next week
- Skills plan for your intermedia project
- What technical skills do you need to gain to finish your project?
- How will you go about doing this?
- Be as pragmatic and straightforward as you can be.
- Storyboard for your Documentary
- Be prepared to present it in class. Remember this is Hollywood, you’ve only got thirty seconds, baby. Really, though, the better the presentation, the better the feedback. Which means clear and succinct. You should have the theoretical/historical/ethnographic arcs fairly clear at this point. I’d like us to be able to talk as much about aesthetic choices, decisions, and resolutions.
- What are the key points?
- What essential details need to be present?
- etc.
- Be prepared to present it in class. Remember this is Hollywood, you’ve only got thirty seconds, baby. Really, though, the better the presentation, the better the feedback. Which means clear and succinct. You should have the theoretical/historical/ethnographic arcs fairly clear at this point. I’d like us to be able to talk as much about aesthetic choices, decisions, and resolutions.
Week 4
Readings for Sept. 15: Visual Anthropology II
Buchler, Pavel. 2004. Making nothing happen: Notes for a seminar. in Visualizing Anthropology: Experimenting with Image-Based Ethnography.
Grimshaw, Anna and Amanda Ravetz. 2004. Introduction. in Visualizing Anthropology: Experimenting with Image-Based Ethnography.
Grimshaw, Anna. 2004. Eyeing the field: New Horizons for Visual Anthropology in Visualizing Anthropology: Experimenting with Image-Based Ethnography.
Grimshaw, Anna. 2005. Reconfiguring the ground: Art and the visualization of anthropoogy. In Anthropologies of Art, ed. Mariet Westermann, 195-220. Clark Art Institute, July 8.
Download Sept.15 reading package here:sept15
Blurred genres
Jay Ruby, a visual anthropologist and somewhat of an anti-establishmentarian, shared this link recently to an article in the New York Times that intelligently discusses the blurring of genres between fiction and documentary film making. Ruby laments that too few anthropologists have experimented with this form.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/movies/22hybrid.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=it%27s%20actual%20life&st=cse
Day 2
Anthropology of the Visual, Part I
Market From Here, 1997
This week I’m asking you to read some material that will help to contextualize two streams of work that will be useful for our intermedia inquiry:
- Visual Anthropology
- Anthropology of Art
Please read the following articles for our class on September 8th.
- Hockings, Paul. Ed. 1995. Principles of Visual Anthropology. 2nd ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Preface, Forward, and Introduction
- Bateson, Gregory. 1995. Style, grace, and information in primitive art. In The Anthropology of Art: A Reader.
- Levi-Strauss, Claude. 1995. Split representation in the art of Asia and America. In The Anthropology of Art: A Reader.
You can download them as a zipped file here: 19 mb zipped folder
For the September 8th class we’ll also be explicitly discussing the “Market from Here” installation (from our first readings, Calzadilla and Marcus conversation). Please also bring materials and proposals for you intermedia project.
Also, please go to the Tumblr.com website and register for an account. We’ll talk about this in class but it would be great if you’d all already figured out a little bit about it and maybe given it a little trial run.
-Craig
Market from Here
Anarchaweb Anti-Archive
Someone shared a link to this Anarcha project. I’m curious about this idea of ‘performative research methods.’ Read-on.
The Anarcha Project uses performative research methods to engage intersections between black history and disability history. Black history, disability studies and performance scholars work on remembering Montgomery, Alabama women Anarcha, Lucy and Betsey. This anti-archive envisions a site for a discussion of Anarcha and J. Marion Sims, the gynecologist who used slave women as experimental subjects while he was searching for a cure for fistula. Embodied in this site are artifacts from Anarcha performances and workshops in Montgomery, Detroit and Ann Arbor, and Berkeley. Using movement, words and visuals to connect Anarcha’s story to disability history and black history, we sought to add to the anti-archive, to hear from others what they knew about this story, what it meant to them, the responses it compelled.
