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SUMMARY:Art as a type of knowing: an art-archaeology experiment - Dr Alana
  Jelinek\, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology\, University of Cambridge 
 and Prof David Gill\, Professor of Archaeological Heritage\, UCS
DTSTART:20121108T173000Z
DTEND:20121108T190000Z
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CONTACT:Alana Jelinek
DESCRIPTION:%{color:red}Artful Crafts%\n\nThere is a history of modern and
  contemporary artists drawing on archaeology for inspiration. Artists have
  used archaeological methodologies\, interrogated archaeological taxonomie
 s and been inspired by archaeological finds. \n\n%{color:red}Not praising\
 , burying%\n\nThis talk will describe a recent artwork\, _Not praising\, b
 urying_\, that took place over one day at the Fitzwilliam Museum. The artw
 ork explored the idea of art practice as a type of knowing using Vickers a
 nd Gill’s _Artful Crafts_ (1994) as its starting point. Initiated by Ala
 na Jelinek\, Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow in the Creative a
 nd Performing Arts with the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology\, the a
 rtwork brought together a range of people\, including archaeologists\, art
 ists\, classicists\, philosophers and art historians to interrogate ideas 
 through art practice.\n\nThis talk will describe the processes involved in
  the artwork with some of its participants\, and discuss similarities and 
 differences in its reception across the various disciplinary expectations 
 and mores.\n\nTraditionally\, universities like Cambridge and philosophers
  like John Dewey tended to reject the idea that art is type of knowledge\,
  describing it as ‘far from being knowledge in any literal sense’. Mor
 e recently this narrow idea of knowledge is contested: for example\, Colin
  Renfrew argues that the task of archaeology is _the same as_ reading cont
 emporary art and there is an increased awareness across the social science
 s of the potential of art practice methodologies for research. \n\nProfess
 or Colin Renfrew writes that\, \n*‘Today the visual arts have transforme
 d themselves into what might be described as a vast\, uncoordinated yet so
 mehow enormously effective research programme that looks critically at wha
 t we are and how we know what we are – at the foundations of knowledge a
 nd perception\, and of the structures that modern societies have chosen to
  construct upon these foundations.’*\n\nIn addition to a discussion abou
 t the type of knowledge art practice may produce for various disciplines\,
  the discussion will also attempt to describe some of the pitfalls of inte
 r-disciplinary working and particularly the problems with working through 
 disciplinary assumptions about knowledge formation and methodologies.\n\n
LOCATION:MacDonald Institute of Archaeological Research
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