Local Culture: Curation as an Ethnographic Process in the Contemporary Cuban Art Scene
This study contributes to the discussion on the production of anthropological knowledge and the visual arts in particular fields such as design, installation and curation. The fieldwork was conducted in La Habana under the guise of the practice of curation as a site of ethnographic practice, method...
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 2017 |
| Country: | Ecuador |
| Institution: | FLACSO |
| Repository: | Revista ICONOS |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/2639 |
| Online Access: | https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/2639 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Etnografia trabalho de campo arte contemporâneo cubano prática curatorial instalação antropologia visual. Etnografía trabajo de campo arte contemporáneo cubano práctica curatorial instalación antropología visual. Ethnography fieldwork contemporary Cuban art curation installation visual anthropology. |
| Summary: | This study contributes to the discussion on the production of anthropological knowledge and the visual arts in particular fields such as design, installation and curation. The fieldwork was conducted in La Habana under the guise of the practice of curation as a site of ethnographic practice, method and theory building. In concrete terms, the study centres on an exhibition called Cultura Autóctona, with the objective of understanding the contemporary Cuban art scene and its repercussions for the production of practices involved in its politically critical social context. The design of the exhibition and curation process has contributed elements to the current debate within visual anthropology: understanding of the image as a process of inter-relation, more than of description. |
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