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Week 120: 29th Dec – 4th Jan 2015
Considering the relationship between art and anthropology has led me to consider my own interest in museums and the ways in which curating has become part of my practice. There are a variety of examples of artists working as […]
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Week 119: 22nd – 28th Dec 2014
Thinking about the relationship between art and anthropology has led me consider how artists work within museum structures. I have previously explored this through the work of Eduardo Paolozzi in his installation ‘Lost Magic Kingdoms’, but I am also interested […]
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Week 118: 15th – 21st Dec 2014
As my core focus is on the anthropology of art, I have been reading Morphy and Perkins’ edited collection ‘The Anthropology of Art: A Reader’, which traces the history of this field. In particular, they attempt to redress the neglect […]
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Week 117: 8th – 14th Dec 2014
My recent interest in Image Studies has led me to consider iconoclasm in greater detail by reading Bruno Latour’s introductory essay to the exhibition catalogue for ‘Iconoclash: Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion and Art’. I first thought about […]
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Week 116: 1st – 7th Dec 2014
My discussions around anthropological perspectives on art have led me to reconsider the relationship between art and authenticity. This was also the subject of a recent Leeds Humanities Research Institute seminar. The seminar series, entitled ‘Experimental Philosophical Aesthetics’, was organised […]
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Week 115: 24th – 30th Nov 2014
I’ve been looking a lot at the Warburg Institute Library in relation to my project, and in particular at the Iconographic database. The Warburg Institute is part of the University of London, and “exists principally to further the study of […]
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Week 114: 17th – 23rd Nov 2014
While I was in Southern India, I thought it would be useful to visit some galleries of modern art to see some alternative histories to the British artistic canon. As I was in Bangalore, I had the chance to visit […]
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Week 113: 10th – 16th Nov 2014
I’ve just arrived back from visiting the South of India where I was invited to attend a Hindu wedding. While I was there I had the opportunity to do some travelling and see some of the sights in the area. […]
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Week 112: 3rd – 9th Nov 2014
This week I was featured in the new publication Looking at Images: A Researcher’s Guide, which was edited by Jane Birkin, Rima Chahrour and Sunil Manghani. The publication was produced to address “the development of skills in image-related research [to […]
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Week 111: 27th Oct – 2nd Nov 2014
The correlation between artworks and artefacts in my practice has brought me to the field of Image Studies. This field is not subject specific, but instead includes the disciplines of “art; aesthetics; anthropology; critical theory; cultural studies; history; literature; philosophy; […]
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Week 110: 20th – 26th Oct 2014
This week I attended an interdisciplinary conference on the histories of weaving and coding. The aim of the conference was to present practice based research in progress and to discuss anthropological links to the project as a whole. As my […]
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Week 109: 13th – 19th Oct 2014
Although my practice is not technically rooted in photography, my methods for curating my most recent project ‘The Imaginary Museum’, deal with the impact of photography on the production, collection, and dissemination of art through images. These ideas originally stemmed […]