I am interested in ‘Sensory Turn’. It analyses and describes a group of people’s social life and culture. It is both a research method and an investigative process. Before the sensory turn, ethnographic research was largely text-based.
The ‘sensory turn’ took place in the 1980s. Researchers began to explore how they could apply their own corporeality and senses to ethnographic analysis and then relate their experiences via different media. Likewise, it is also an alternative method of solving social problems.
Under contemporary art, innovative ways of producing knowledge have transformed traditional ethnographic approaches. The senses turn to the adoption of imagination and creativity to interpret anthropological practices. Second, contemporary art has occupied a space long been associated with anthropology. Thirdly, We see a particularly challenging and productive engagement with the ever-changing field between contemporary artists and anthropologists. Fourth, the artist is creating a project within an anthropological vision. Also, the art object’s being produced due to ethnographic snow studies.
I consider the involvement of anthropologists in contemporary art as the discovery of new methods and processes.
