Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space.

Winter, Judith

Abstract

The term 'curator' obviously encompasses a broad spectrum of practices. Like all disciplines the activity of curating is continually being redefined. This is a process that is pushed, challenged and accelerated in correspondence with artists and various sites both within and beyond the gallery. It seems almost too obvious to state that art and anthropology continue to share a discursive space and a common concern with human existence, creativity and social organization. This chapter explores how the figure of the contemporary art curator, in opposition to the classical keeper of collections, carries out a critical practice that corresponds with lived experience. Here the common discursive space is digressive and speculative rather than ethnographic.

Citation

WINTER, J. 2020. Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space. In Sansi, R. (ed.) The anthropologist as curator. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 115-132. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086819-7

• Online Publication Date: Dec 26, 2019
• Publication Date: Dec 31, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jul 20, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 20, 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 115-132
• Book Title: The anthropologist as curator
• Chapter Number: 7
• ISBN: 9781350081901
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086819-7
• Keywords: Anthropology; Curatorship; Curation of artworks
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/861184
• Contract Date: Aug 20, 2019