Artists

Kate Hennessy and Trudi Lynn Smith are anthropologists and practising artists that have worked together as curators and collaborators since 2009 as a part of Ethnographic Terminalia, an international curatorial collective exhibiting and creating works at the intersection of art and anthropology. Hennessy is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology, where she leads the Making Culture Lab, an interdisciplinary research and production studio. Smith is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, and recently held the position of artist-in-residence with Hennessy in the Making Culture Lab. Together they explore cultural practices of media, museums, and archives in the context of technoscience. Their art practice in video, photography, and text has engaged with entropy in diverse collections and the ecological, social, and political impacts of new digital memory infrastructures. As ethnographers as well as artists, Hennessy and Smith highlight collaboration as a central aspect of their work, working with both human and non-human entities to represent the politics of the material world and its relationships with human agency.

Fugitive Structures: The Bauhaus Building in Dessau

Pamela Cevallos (b. 1984, Quito, Ecuador) is an artist, anthropologist, and curator. Her work explores the social life of things, the practices of collecting and exhibition and the uses of the archive. She has developed projects related to the history of national museums in Ecuador and the process of heritage making during the twentieth century. Since 2015 she has worked with La Pila community around the memories of looting and the knowledge of the artisans that create archaeological replicas for a tourist market. Her current PhD research studies the appropriations and uses of the pre-Hispanic through reproduction strategies. She is a professor at the Visual Arts School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador.

Atlas 1892. Fieldnotes

I am a Finnish media artist and researcher working with socially engaged projects locally, nationally and internationally. I frequently collaborate with Lea Kantonen. I have MF in theatre science, a journalist diploma, and the doctorate in fine arts. Since the early 1980s, my artistic practice has involved co-operation with other artists, schools, museums and different communities both locally and internationally combining art with fieldwork, teaching, research and political action. In these open ended co-operative projects both mediums and goals are discussed. My artistic fieldwork includes an ongoing video diary since 1990, community based art projects with Wixárika and Rarámuri in Mexico, Seto in Estonia, and Sámi in Sápmi since the middle 1990s.

Three Times a Decade: Asking for Advice

Reginald S. Aloysius (b. 1970) was born in London. The artist graduated with a BFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University and received his MA in Drawing from Kingston University, London. Aloysius has been shortlisted for a number of prizes including the 2011 Jerwood Prize and won the 2015 National Art Prize. He has also participated in the Colombo Art Biennale 2014 and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (by invitation). His work has been widely exhibited in London, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and the United States.

Departure

Hello, I’m Savyasachi and I record everyday videos, sounds and images. Sometimes I make films out of them and sometimes I just play them back to myself.
I am primarily interested in the everyday mundane and its reflections/influences on the lives of people across generations and cultures.
At present, I am interested in exploring the relationships between photography and film as a medium, as a mode of representation and as a form of public archive/documentation.

Nani Ghar

Tiago Rocha Costa has a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Évora (Portugal) and is currently finishing a Masters in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. With an interdisciplinary practice, Costa’s work addresses topics such as the domestication and extinction of nature, which he explores through references to natural science and archeology. His production is presented in the form of decontextualized fragments, whether they are paintings removed from the walls of ruins, sculptures destroyed by birds, fabricated fossils or fictional scenarios: realities that seek to arouse a feeling of curiosity and admiration for what is latent or disappearing.

Sky Burial

Yoonha Kim is interested in how people imagine the future and take action. Her focus is on diversification of garment structures connected to alternative ways of living amid technological contexts such as augmented reality, outer space exploration, and artificial intelligence. She studied Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins in London, and Visual and Media Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. In her PhD research at Humboldt University, she is currently looking into traditional Korean clothing – the ›Hanbok‹ – as an active matter and how the East Asian ontology embedded in the garment can trigger divergent ways of how digital objects exist.

In Between Hanbok