Between Art And Anthropology

The interesting thing to me about this book, begins almost immediately in the discussion about Antonio Ole's work with the emphasis on color and that this is trying to help anthropologists remember to pay attention to color. page 2.."evoke a kind of sensory memory..."which he says is important to his film making...it is interesting when the book says that.."a kind of anti-aestheticism or ignore the affects of images has resulted in a climate where experimentation in formal and other terms is too often disintegrated. Anthropologists have for too long been overly dismissive of formal experimentation....."in terms of their methods and also in their presentation of research..well,it seems that there is more collaborative work being done between the artist and anthropologist but it is still"fragile"However a recent focus on senses within both anthropology and  art roles of senses within cultures may bridge some artist and anthropologists. An example is ...smelling the odors of the streets and a project researching the smells in different languages..But this is a challenging new way to approach contemporary art and science...Teresa Pereda's work..Recolection/Restitution by this Argentine artist shows the sensuousness of materials from earth samples from parts of Argentina so in the form of giant wool balls becomes  a social medium and symbol as she engages with people.Her performance which is weaving yarn between people ,physically.Another example of the collaborative nature of combing science and art practice is seen in Lucien Taylor,who calls himself a :Visual Anthropologist"and who runs a "sensory Anthropology lab at Harvard...has made films called Sheprushes as projections in art galleries. but this book really seems to be a call for more collaborations between the artist and the anthropologist.