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Podcast: "On Materiality" - with Carine Ayélé Durand
What can be gained from discussing Materiality, as opposed to simply talking about objects? This episode of the Ethnographic Imagination Basel podcast examines what it means to engage with objects, substances, and textures. Carine Ayélé Durand, is Director of Musée d'Ethnographie, Genève.
Ethnographic Imagination Basel – a series on reimagining the world from the mundane.
Ethnographic Imagination Basel (EIB) is produced by the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. It is a research, educational, and public engagement initiative exploring innovative forms of political imagination through ethnographic practice. The podcast promotes ethnography not only as a tool of scholarly research but also as a mode of imagination available to all, a means for pursuing deeper intercultural, contextual understanding and more ethical ways of being in the world. EIB explores the ways in which ethnographic imagination is used for grasping emerging trends in the global political economic order and the politics of culture and society.
On Materiality - with Carine Ayélé Durand
What can be gained from discussing Materiality, as opposed to simply talking about objects? This episode, On Materiality, examines what it means to engage with objects, substances, and textures. We contemplate the more profound implications of our relationship with things, how we can think through them, and how this connects to the work of political imagination. Our guest, Carine Ayélé Durand, is Director of Musée d'Ethnographie, Genève, whose curatorial and academic work involves collaborations with indigenous groups in the Arctic, the Brazilian Amazon and Canada to rethink engagements with material culture, visual arts, and museum exhibitions.
Some of Durand’s essays include “Artistic Practice and (Museum) Ethnography” (2010); “Anthropology in a Glass Case: Indigeneity, Collaboration, and Artistic Practice in Museums (2010); “Indexing (In)Authenticity: Art and Artefact in Ethnography Museums” (2012); and “Redefining Curatorship as Skilled Practice” (2023).
