Catholic University, Washington DC World Archaeology Congress Hundreds of archaeologists gathering for the globalism-aware and politically-aware conference. Our session – a bunch of us from Stanford, Doug Bailey from Cardiff, Jonna Hansson and Fiona Campbell from Gothenburg – was the latest in our creative heresies series to explore the edges of archaeology. It didn’t go…
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Located Bodies
Antony Gormley at the Baltic Arts Center Wonderful stuff. Anthropometrics, collaborative work, community based, questioning representational forms. Allotment. Concrete boxes made to measure for residents of Malmo. All arranged in the gallery in social groups, and as a kind of miniature city scape. Domain Field. Whole body casts made of some 250 volunteers from the…
Heritage and urban myth
Gateshead UK – Baltic Center for Contemporary Art Dinner last night with Peter and Sue MacDonald; Helen of course too. The restaurant is at the top of the old flour mill on the quayside, though it looks like a grain silo. It’s now an arts center, 46 million quids worth. Lots of other development here…
Information is a verb
Information is a verb and we need an archaeology of information. University of California Irvineat the UC Humanities Research Institute Occasion – a colloquium on the future of the humanities in a digital world. Attending – people from university humanities centers across the US, librarians, some government people, IT people (various supercomputing centers), and from…
the anarchaeological
John Wayne AirportOrange County – what a place! – hygienic, antiseptic even – every building a regulation distance apart – no garbage, no decay – anarchaeological
Esgair Fraith, Wales
“Tri Bywyd” (Three Lives) – a work of theatre/archaeology by Brith Gof Eddie Ladd as Sarah Jacob – read more
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