4-0955 PUBLIC ARTS / ART PUBLICS

Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Liam M Buckley (James Madison University) and Susan Falls (Savannah College of Art and Design)

Chairs: Joseph R Hellweg (Florida State University )

Discussants: Stephanie Takaragawa (Chapman University)

13:45

Signs of the Colonial City In the Postcolonial Country: Home-Making Among the Retired In Western Kenya

Liam M Buckley (James Madison University)

14:00

Terminable Signs of An Interminable Revolution: Political Slogans, Graffiti, Store-Front Art, and Non-Commercial Placards From the City of Kankan, Guinea-Conakry

Eva Yerende (Independent Scholar)

14:15

Advertising Diversity: The Urban Signs of N’ko Entrepreneurs In West Africa

Joseph R Hellweg (Florida State University )

14:30

Publics and Pueblos: The Competing Aesthetics of Capital and Community In Oaxaca, Mexico

Ivan Arenas (Berkeley)

14:45

Is Urban Space a Showcase of An Aesthetic of Commodification? Aesthetics and Signification of Street Art In Havana and Berlin

Lina l Tegtmeyer (Freie Universität Berlin)

15:00

Ayiti Pap Peri (Haiti has not yet Perished): Graffiti, Agency, and Historical Context In Post Earthquake Haiti

Charles Norton (University of Arizona)

15:15

Discussion

15:30

Break

15:45

Blogger Art and the Crises of Public 'representation': The Case of Middle East & North Africa

Zulfikar Hirji (York University)

16:00

The Public As Process: Renderings of Race In Savannah

Susan Falls (Savannah College of Art and Design)

16:15

Minor Marks and Modifications: Visual Culture and the Pedestrian Gaze

Craig AR Campbell (University of Texas - Austin)

16:30

'performosis'. How Performance (art) Affects People

Sylvia Schwenk (Academy of the Arts, University of Tasmania and Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney)

16:45

Reflections On "Public Culture"

Sherry B Ortner (UCLA)

17:00

Discussant

Stephanie Takaragawa (Chapman University)

17:15

Discussion

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