Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork: A Memoir of Anthropology and Art
Professor Susan Ossman, Visiting Professor of Movements and Places at NYU Abu Dhabi, will give a public lecture on “Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork: A Memoir of Anthropology and Art.”
Ossman will expand on her recent book Shifting Worlds,
Shaping Fieldwork, a Memoir of Anthropology and Art
(Routledge 2021), focusing on the unfolding shape of several
projects she developed over the past decade to elucidate how
questions of media, modality and experimentation can be variously
and strategically entangled. “On the Line” began with a painting
and progressively brought anthropologists,
artists and public libraries together in Riverside California
from 2012 to 2016. The Moving Matter Traveling Workshop (MMTW)
began in 2013 with a concept and a text and has developed into a
laboratory and
community of serial migrant artist/scholars. Ossman’s current
work on “Gather Wood Gather Words” emerged from ethnographic
research in Morocco and explores gesture as a unifying force for
research across scholarship and the arts. Ossman focuses on the
evolving configuration of these different programs as they cross
disciplines and offer moments for individual and collaborative
engagements that produce diverse outcomes in multiple media for
diverse publics, leading to a broader discussion of the
potential of anthropological field design as a leading practice
for current work in experimental humanities and arts.
Monday, April 8 at 4:10 pm in 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
This lecture is part of the Anthropology Sociocultural Colloquium.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology, Art and Art History, Cinema and Digital Media, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies.