<div dir="ltr">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. <div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>The venue is <b>Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM), Caltex Amphitheatre 121.</b> I attach a map.<br><br>**<br>Art and Ethnography in the Post-Western Museum<br><br>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? <br><br><i>James <span class="">Clifford</span> is Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. <span class="">Clifford</span>
is the author of several widely cited and translated books, including
</i>The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature,
and Art <i>(1988), </i>Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late 20th
Century<i>(1997), and </i>Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty First
Century<i> (2013). He was co-editor (with George Marcus) of the widely
influential collection </i>Writing Culture: the Poetics and Politics of
Ethnography<i> (1986).</i><br></div></div><span class=""><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><div><div><div><div><div><br> </div><span class=""></span></div></div></div></div></font></span></font></span></div></div><span class=""><font color="#888888">-- <br><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Dr Eve Vincent<br>Lecturer<br>Higher Degree Research Coordinator<br>Department of Anthropology<br>W6A, 611<br>Macquarie University<br>NSW 2109</span></span><br></div>
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