The Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts will feature an innovative
group exhibition entitled Ethnographic Terminalia from December 2-20,
2009. Scheduled to coincide with the annual meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, this year in Philadelphia, the curators
have brought together an international group of artists and
ethnographers who are actively engaged in experimental and emergent
cultural forms. Visitors are invited to join in a multisensorial
happening that challenges the boundaries and borders that demarcate
the margins of ethnographic, anthropological, and art practices. In
this ground-breaking exhibition, a diverse group of artists and
anthropologists present boundary troubling works in eleven separate
installations. Each installation project in Ethnographic Terminalia
offers a thought provoking and playful (or agitating) alternative to
considering what lies both beyond and within imagined and constructed
boundaries of the skilled practices of artists and ethnographers.
This exhibition features original works by: Trudi-Lynn Smith; Erica
Lehrer and Hannah Smotrich; Kate Hennessy and Oliver Neumann; Marko
and Gordana Zivkovic; Chris Fletcher; Roderick Coover; Jayasinhji
Jhala; Craig Campbell; Mike Evans and Stephen Foster; Stephanie Spray;
and Scott and Jen Webel. While these works are deployed within the
rubric of anthropology they answer visual and aesthetic questions in
unique and particular fashion, decentering the priviledged categories
of both ethnography and art through various mediums.
According to the curatorial team: "This exhibit will be of great
interest not only to professional anthropologists but other publics as
well. By drawing the studied methodologies of ethnography into a
familiar art environment this collective exhibition delivers an all
too uncommon challenge to disciplinary and professional boundaries.
By engaging with the politics of representation, memory,
documentation, and archive Ethnographic Terminalia will impress upon
all visitors their own stake in the interpretation of cultural
worlds." The works presented in Ethnographic Terminalia address the
possibility of showing and interpreting cultural worlds outside of the
traditional cinematic, museological, and textual frameworks of
Cultural Anthroplogy while challenging the art world to consider the
sensuous complexities and textures of everyday life.
Visit the website for more details about the show:
www.metafactory.ca/terminalia
Exhibition Opening Reception & Shindig
4 December 2009 7-10.00pm
-----------------------------------
Location
Icebox Project Space at Crane Arts, Philadelphia (PA)
December 2-20, 2009
Wednesday to Saturday 12pm-6pm
Entry is free
-----------------------------------
Curators:
Craig Campbell, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
Anabelle Rodriguez, Independent Curator (Philadelphia, PA)
Fiona McDonald, University College London (London, England)
Administrative Team:
Kate Hennessy, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC)
Stephanie Takaragawa, Chapman University (Orange, CA)
