[-empyre-] visualization between art and anthropology

[fiamma montezemolo]

Thank you for your comments, Gaby.  I would say that for those of us who
dwell between art and anthropology do not feel the question of
"repatriation' is a pressing one. I try to travel in between and my images
are formed through that milieu. I tend to work with graduate students
involved in both fields, but regarding your anthropology students you could
maybe introduce them to the fascinating dialogue that has been going  on
between art and anthropology since the twenties onward; Mexico and Brazil
are particularly exciting places for this dialogue.

Hope this helps!

Fiamma

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 3:01 PM, VARGAS CETINA G ABRIELA <
gabyvargasc at prodigy.net.mx> wrote:

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> Dear Fiamma and Christina, thanks for this very interesting conversation.
>
> Fiamma, I know some of your work as an anthropologist and I've seen
> pictures of your work as an artist. How do you see your work crossing over
> to anthropology beyond the study of Tijuana? You seem to be interested in
> anthropologists' reflection on their own images. That is good in itself;
> however, as an anthropologist I want to know: Do you think that your
> representational interventions have something we can 'translate'
> conceptually back into anthropology? And if so, what would that be? What
> can I teach my anthro students conceptually from your art work, according
> to you? I guess I am asking you to be both narcissus and echo here, from an
> anthropological para-site to your artwork, far away from the Mexico-U.S.
> border.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gaby
>
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> Gabriela Vargas-Cetina
> Anthropologist
> Autonomous University of Yucatan
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> Thank you for your question Christina.
>
> Yes, I did work on the 'aftermaths' of the InSite project in the border
> between Mexico and the USA. As an artist and anthropologist - using an
> inter-medial methodology - I was particularly interested in making an
> attempt to understand what is left after a biennial, a curatorial project,
> an artist leaves a scene of intervention. InSite has been a very important
> art initiative that lasted many years in the Tijuana-San Diego border. In
> 2005 they had their last intervention and moved later to Mexico City. In
> 2013-14 I made a video called Echo based on their archive and an
> ethnography. By revisiting the scenes of these curatorial and artistic
> interventions, “echo” emerged both as a concept and a practice that enabled
> a reassembling of these art works, their futures,  beyond their expected
> ruins and remains.
>
> Each work/artist and afterlife/echo of those works  -after the artists
> completed them and left to focus on another work - raised different and
> enriching questions on social art, on ethics, on methods, on the people
> involved in the projects, on the city itself and its urban cycle, on the
> future of public sculpture, etc. The assemblage of archival images and
> current reverberations, of all sort of data visualization through video,
> text, voice over, drawings, interviews, of affects and representation has
> been a real challenge in this work, as you mention: especially in terms of
> methodology.
>
> The result is that more questions were opened after the initial ones. The
> conclusion was inconclusive: Narcissus (all of us working, representing,
> intervening on the border: anthropologists, artists, curators, etc.) and
> Echo (the context, the artists, the collaborators, the public sculptures,
> the objects, etc.) are clearly part of the same scenario and they are both
> plural and problematic in their own way...
>
> In this sense, I am not sure mine was a 'feminist methodology', but maybe
> yes a 'feminist sensibility', or as a long literature that started with
> Adorno would define it: an 'unmethodical method', an undoing of
> categorization, indeed a sort of ‘border crossing’.
>
> Best,
> Fiamma
>
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