Field/works II: generating ecologies of trust. [Exhibition]

Abstract

The theme of this exhibition is inspired by Isabelle Stengers and Didier Debaise's call to rebel against the "suspicion-based" epistemology of modern sciences, and to fight back with what Félix Guattari called the "polyphonic arts", building trust-generative "dispositifs". We now arguably work and live in an era "after progress" and attempts of legitimising a one-world ontology have failed (at least in our discipline). How can we (re)generate trust to make space for healing, living and dying practices in a way that accommodates many worlds and modes of existence, working with ideas such as "earthly beings" (de la Cadena) the "interdependance" (Sharma), or "multispecies justice" (Haraway)? How can practices that address both artistic and anthropological concerns partake in and contribute to "ecologies of trust"? How might such practices challenge or transform the legacies of modernist ethics, of comparing "all things being equal" and the ensuing general "thinning" of reality? What are the implications for anthropological knowledge that emphasise interdependance and its specific forms of co-existence? This exhibition was curated by Curated by Maxime Le Calvé and Jen Clarke, with web design provided by Fancisca José and Gil Rodrigues. The exhibition was financially supported and hosted by the European Association of Social Anthropologists / Association Européenne des Anthropologues Sociaux (EASA), and was opened as part of the EASA 2024 conference in Barcelona.

Citation

Field/works II: generating ecologies of trust. [Exhibition]. Exhibited from 18 July 2024, [online exhibition]. Hosted on EASAonline [online]. Available from: https://fieldworks.easaonline.org/

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Jul 18, 2024
• Deposit Date: Oct 18, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 12, 2025
• Keywords: Trust (Psychology); Art and society; Anthropology and society; Science and society
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2532000
• Related Public URLs: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2531978 (first Field/Works exhibition)
• External URL: https://fieldworks.easaonline.org/