Persuade, Evoke, Represent in Montreal
Together with Tom O’Dell I will be at The 110th Annual Meeting of The American Anthropological Association in Montreal. We will present a paper named ”Persuade, Evoke, Represent – Ethnographic Compositions in Use” where we take our ideas on ”Composing Ethnography”, published in the latest issue of Ethnologia Europaea some steps further. It will also [...]
Elsewhereness >> Milton Keynes
A new part of the Elsewhereness-series will be screened at The 2nd International Visual Methods Conference in Milton Keynes, UK. Statement from the conference website: ”The 2nd International Visual Methods Conference will be held at the Open University in Milton Keynes from 13th-15th September 2011. We invite academics and others who work with visual methods [...]
Ethnography North – A Knowledge Node
Together with Tom O’Dell I’ve initiated Etnography North, which is intended to be something we call ”A knowledge Node” dealing with questions about ethnography. An early version of a website is now online: Ethnography North on the web.
Förbisett at Kulturen
Yesterday the exhibition Förbisett (Overlooked) by me, Niklas Ingmarsson and Martin Magntorn opened at the museum Kulturen in Lund, Sweden. It is based on material from our book (with the same name) in which we tried to capture the overlooked, the inconspicuous and the mundane in our surroundings. The exhibition will be open until August 28. [...]
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 [...]
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.
Photo by: Jan Bovin.
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