Interview about Elsewhereness:Utrecht
By Sabine Niederer & Koen Poelhekke Impakt Festival 2010. As part of Impakt Online – ”The City as Interface.” http://www.impakt.nl/index.php/artworks/interview_Anders_Weberg_Robert_Will Koen Poelhekke (KP): What are your (creative) backgrounds? Robert Willim (RW): I have been working quite a while with ethnographic research and cultural analysis, currently I’m associate professor at Lund University. In this work I’ve [...]
Roundtable on Art and Anthropology in New Orleans
There will be a roundtable dicussion organized at the AAA meeting (American Anthropological Association) in New Orleans as part of the Ethnographic Terminalia art exhibition. AAA Roundtable Discussion: Ethnographic termini: moving and agitating within the borderlands of contemporary art and ethnography. Session Length: 1.75 hours Keywords: installation art, exhibition, public anthropology Saturday, November 20 at [...]
Sweden for Beginners at Dokfest in Kassel
Together with Anders Weberg I’ve been invited to perform Sweden for Beginners at Dokfest in Kassel November 11th. The performance is part of the Dokfest Lounge program, which is described as: ”The specially arranged Festival Lounge, venue of the Audiovisual Performance Program, is decisively contributing to the atmosphere of the Kassel Dokfest and has established [...]
Utrecht online
A new piece of the Elsewhereness-series has been launched. It was commissioned by Impakt 2010 in Utrecht, NL. This year’s programme of Impakt online is built around the theme: ”The City as Interface”. From the website: ”For this year’s programme, Impakt Online invited artists, architects, urban planners, researchers, programmers and the like to submit their proposals [...]
Overlooked (the book)
A new book by me, Niklas Ingmarsson and photographer Martin Magntorn is available (in Swedish). It deals with the ways that the overlooked and inconspicuous can be turned into something fascinating. ”Förbisett – När vardagen glimrar till” Brutus Östlings bokförlag Symposion ISBN: 9789171398475. The book is available in a number of web stores, as well [...]
Creativity in Shanghai
Together with professor Tom O’Dell I will present a paper called “Creativity and Corporate Research: User Driven Innovation and new Invocations of Ethnography in Business Practices” at Creativity from a Global Perspective an International Conference on the Creative Industries, 18 – 20 October 2010, Nordic Lighthouse, Shanghai. Here are some of the conference papers.
Screening in Berlin (as part of Magistrale2010)
Elsewhereness:Yokohama will be part of the screening programme Urban Research Selection 2010 this evening 19:45… ”urban research selection 2010 screening at MAGISTRALE 2010 – NEUE BEWIRTSCHAFTUNG urban symbols and interferences Screening in public bar on Potsdamer Str., Berlin: 19:45 Sat. 9 October 2010 Puschel’s Pub Potsdamer Str. 112 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten Under the Umbrella of: MAGISTRALE [...]
Photo by: Jan Bovin.
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