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 [...]

New Work: The World is Not Enough

A new collaborative work between me and Finnish artist Jussi Valtakari will premiere at The Cultural Center in Jöhvi, Estonia October 1st. From the Statement: The World is Not Enough is a joint work between artists Jussi Valtakari and Robert Willim, based on a sculpted  wooden micro gallery by Valtakari and the video artwork Close [...]

Culture Night and The Overlooked

September 17 The Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences will arrange a number of events and attractions as part of the annual Culture Night in Lund. As part of the arrangement a selection of photos from our Overlooked-project (Förbisett) will be exhibited. After this exhibition we will start searching for new contexts and spaces where [...]

Transmutations of Nature

From August 9 until September 25 four of my works will be exhibited in a group exhibition at The Päätalo Center in Taivalkoski, Finland. The other two artists are Jürgen Umlauff (DE) and Jussi Valtakari (FI). My works are based on questions about landscape and problematize ideas about nature and mediation. Here’s the statement: Close [...]

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. [...]

Images from New Orleans

Here are some snapshots from the opening of the Ethnographic Terminalia show at Du Mois Gallery in New Orleans November 19th 2010.

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 [...]

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