From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. While ethnography has been both generously and problematically re-appropriated by the art world, curation has seldom caught the conceptual attention of anthropologists. Based on two years of participant-observation in Mexico City, Tarek Elhaik addresses this lacuna by examining the concept-work of curatorial platforms and media artists. Taking his cue from ongoing critiques of Mexicanist aesthetics, and what Roger Bartra calls 'the post-Mexican...
From the 1990s onwards the 'ethnographic turn in contemporary art' has generated intense dialogues between anthropologists, artists and curators. Whil...
Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media and contemporary art through the examples of four internationally celebrated artists: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum and Douglas Gordon.
Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media and contemporary art through the examples of four internationally celebrated artists...
Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media and contemporary art through the examples of four internationally celebrated artists: Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Mona Hatoum and Douglas Gordon.
Screen Presence explores the intersections of film, popular media and contemporary art through the examples of four internationally celebrated artists...
