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This book brings together a selection of articles that have been published throughout a series of special issues of the journal
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies that originally focused on the so-called 'ethnographic turn' in contemporary arts.
List of contents
Introduction
1. Revisiting the ethnographic turn in contemporary art
2. The rhetorical turn in contemporary art and ethnography
3. Participation, Art and Digital Culture
4. Woundscapes': suffering, creativity and bare life - practices and processes of an ethnography-based art exhibition
5. Towards an ethnographic turn in contemporary art scholarship
6. Beyond the Ethnographic Turn: Refiguring the Archive in Selected Works by Zanele Muholi
7. Aesthetics of self-scaling: parallaxed transregionalism and Kutlü Ataman's art practice
8. Making sense: affective research in postwar Lebanese art
9. The artist as anthropologist of the current globalisation: a view on the present-day cultural imagination in the artworks of Xu Bing, Takashi Murakami and Shahzia Sikander
10. Organising complexities: the potential of multi-screen video-installations for ethnographic practice and representation
11. A Different Point of View: Women's Self-representation in Instagram's Participatory Artistic Movements @girlgazeproject and @arthoecollective
12. YouTube Scenes and the Public Re-seen: Natalie Bookchin and the Digital Public
13. Staging the World: Cross-Cultural (Il)literacy, Taiwan's Mobile Stage Phenomenon, and Shen Chao-liang's Stage Series
14. Unlearning Imperialism Through Artistic Remediation: A Critical Pedagogy Approach
15. Archival F(r)ictions: A Queer Vocabulary for a Live art Pedagogy
16. Urban cracks: sites of meaning for critical artistic practices
17. To cite ... in time
18. FIG(URATIONS): One Extended Metaphor for the Poetic Method, a Vignette for Convolute H (and an Ode to Walter Benjamin)
About the author
Kris Rutten is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Studies of Ghent University, Belgium, where he leads the research group Culture & Education. His fields of expertise are the rhetoric of cultural literacy, the rhetorical curriculum and the ethnographic turn in the arts. He is an associate editor of
Critical Arts.
Keyan G. Tomaselli is founder and co-editor of
Critical Arts, and distinguished professor, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
