[csaa-forum] James Clifford at Macquarie University-map of venue

[Eve Vincent]

A reminder about James Clifford's talk, 'Art and Ethnography in the
Post-Western Museum', this Thursday October 23, 10:30-12:30 at Macquarie
University.
The venue is *Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Caltex
Amphitheatre 121.* I attach a map.

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Art and Ethnography in the Post-Western Museum

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).*


-- 
Dr Eve Vincent
Lecturer
Higher Degree Research Coordinator
Department of Anthropology
W6A, 611
Macquarie University
NSW 2109
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