Important site

Especially for this time of year

http://www.mobilegalleryunit.blogspot.com/

Andamanese

The Andamanese from my seminar. Fully documentated and analysed. Photo from http://www.raqsmediacollective.net/texts2.html

Visual Anthropology

The Society encourages the use of media, including still photography, film, video and non-camera generated images, in the recording of ethnographic, archaeological and other anthropological genres. Members examine how aspects of culture can be pictorially/visually interpreted and expressed, and how images can be understood as artifacts of culture. Historical photographs, in particular, are seen as a source of ethnographic data, expanding our horizons beyond the reach of memory culture. The society also supports the study of indigenous media and their grounding in personal, social, cultural and ideological contexts, and how anthropological productions can be exhibited and used more effectively in classrooms, museums and television. Text from http://www.societyforvisualanthropology.org/svawelcome.html Images are from http://tribalphoto.com/pages/mission.html

Rabinowitch

Hi all. So, about this idea of an end-of-year masters publication ... well, Kalvin is more than happy to do the design on it which is really great. We just have to raise the funds for the actual publication of it. I have no idea about what was done to raise the money for last years booklet and I am unsure about how to even begin thinking about it. So, perhaps we should all start thinking about it and thinking about what we want to put in it and have a meeting about it on thursday or something? I think it would be really great to have some kind of printed document to give out to people. It seems a shame and a waste not to but I also realize it is late in the year and we are all super busy. Any thoughts????

Performa 07_the art of space presence and time

PERFORMA07
SECOND BIENNIAL OF NEW VISUAL ART PERFORMANCE IN NEW YORK CITY
OCTOBER 27 THROUGH
NOVEMBER 20, 2007
18 Happenings in 6 Parts (Reenactment)
18 Happenings in 6 Parts was first performed in the Fall of 1959, at the Reuben Gallery in New York City. After a few performances, it was never shown again. Today, it is considered one of the major turning points in the history of performance and visual arts. In 2006, a few weeks before his death, Kaprow authorized a re-doing of the piece based on the dozens of original pages of music and movement scores, notes, drawings, writings, and drafts he had created in the summer and fall of 1959. The re-doing was presented on the occasion of a major exhibition of Kaprow's work at Haus der Künst, Munich, in the Fall of 2006.

While remaining faithful to the power of Kaprow’s notes and scores, this re-doing approaches Kaprow’s seminal work as an always moving, always provisional, and always renewed set of dynamic propositions, allowing us to rethink how the acts scored under a title as powerful as 18 Happenings in 6 Parts produce new possibilities for reconsidering performance’s relationship to its past -- and new possibilities for rediscovering the absolute contemporaneity of Kaprow’s work