This blog contains weekly summaries/insights of the books I have read to inform my anthropology and art research project,"Strange fruit".The books are the following: 1.the beautiful forevers by Katherine Boo. 2..Between Art and Anthropology,edited by Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright. 3..Through Our Own Eyes by Guy Brett.
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Fieldwork as Artistic Practice
I really related to this section of the book which is about art in public places.This section is written by Tatsuo Inagaki He says that it disturbed him that much of the public art did not tackle into consideration the region,the people from the area.He criticized that the art seemed to be more like museum pieces instead of art made specifically for the people living there.He decide to make art ,public art that was specifically targeted towards the people who lived there.He found that researching like anthropologists did was very helpful.His process involved interviews with local residents. For example... in these interviews he asked about their lives and their relationship with the place. and residents told stories of important memories here.As anthropologists begin with fieldwork and then place their findings into the form of ethnography or writings I the author used photographs of the people in their places and presented them in museums in that specific place.
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