[csaa-forum] Reminder: James Clifford event at Macquarie University, Thursday October 23

[Eve Vincent]

Professor James Clifford is coming to Macquarie University to talk about
'Art and Ethnography in the Post-Western Museum' -- you are all warmly
welcomed to join us.
When: 10:30-12:30, Thursday October 23.
Where: Department of Anthropology, *Macquarie University, W6A, Room 107
(please note room change).*
Title: Art and Ethnography in the Post-Western Museum
Abstract: There are two principal avenues through which the material
creations of non-Western peoples have gained recognition and value in the
cultural centers of Europe and North America. One avenue can be called
“culture,” the other “art.” Much has been written to criticize this sorting
mechanism, and in practice a variety of hybrid museum spaces are opening
up. Yet despite the decentering pressures of decolonization and
globalization, long-established categories change unevenly: the “two
museums” persist.  This talk explores shifting institutional relations
between art and ethnography in contemporary metropolitan contexts. The
relative vitality and prestige of the two traditions is assessed with
examples drawn from museological innovations in Vancouver, Berlin, and
Paris. What is gained and lost in the increasing pressure to represent
“global arts and cultures?” What prospects for serious cross-cultural
translation can be found in the emerging forms of collecting, programming,
and marketing diversity?

James Clifford is Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness
Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. Clifford is the
author of several widely cited and translated books, including The
Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
(1988), Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th Century(1997), and
Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First Century (2013). He was
co-editor (with George Marcus) of the widely influential collection Writing
Culture: the Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (1986).
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