Developing the research from the previous blogpost, I have been exploring artist interventions into archives; why and how this is done. Tony Oursler’s The Imponderable Archive (2016), displays…

performing in the archive SYNOPSIS: Archives consist of gathered materials and documents about an individual, organisation or exhibition; overlaps of knowledge as various artefacts that come together in…

My research poster which displays my findings of waste on Portobello Beach. I go to this beach frequently so it was interesting to get a new perspective of…

This week, we had a guest lecture by Dr Jonathan Gardner, an archaeologist and researcher, who explores connections between archaeology and art, mostly in the form of WASTELANDS….

The Feral Atlas is an online space exploring and mapping nonhuman ‘feral’ ecologies that have arisen from human infrastructural interventions. This way of collecting and documenting as ways…

This tutorial covered the aspects that are involved in a research proposal and what makes one successful. Reading about this on the White Pube website where there is…

In preparation for this lecture we watched the 2012 film Leviathan (Lucian Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel). This takes the form of a documentary, focusing on the commercial fishing…

Workers! (Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP) 2016. Workers! is a new film initiated by Collective in 2016, between Swedish artist and filmmaker Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP, a sex-worker led organisation in…

Continuing research into research methods, I came across this article about the potential for more performative approaches to collecting data. Performance-as-research sets the tone for a project that…

Here we explored the prominence of ethnographic methods when talking about cross sections between art and anthropology. These include: The Interview– differing styles of interview where this can…

  Revisiting the Ethnographic Turn This text explores how artists engage with an ethnographic perspective in their work and how similarities between art-making and anthropology present themselves as,…

group presentation, exploring terms within the set text, The Ethnographic Turn in Contemporary Art: ethnography  ethnography is approached from a thematic or methodological perspective, rather than by looking…

  Art and Anthropology explores artworks created by people and societies around the world; how these fit into a surrounding community, how they may be presented and spoken…