The purpose of this project is to provide you with an opportunity to grapple in creative ways with concepts and provocations about anthropological approaches to studying everyday life.
Your task is to take an anthropological concept, question, or provocation from the course and explore/explain it through a piece of art (broadly defined): poem, illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, collage, dance, song, video, etc. You can choose whichever format most appeals to you. You don’t need to be an expert at the form, but you do need to show good faith effort at playing with form to express your engagement with the concept/question/provocation.
Your art must be accompanied by an artist statement (500-750 words). Your artist statement should explain and analyze the concept, explain the materials or medium used and why, and ground the explanation in at least two different readings/films that we have read/watched from the course so far. (For instance, “I was influenced in the creation of this piece by A and B” and then explain how they influenced your analysis.) Here’s some helpful information about artist statements at https://thecreativeindependent.com/guides/how-to-write-an-artist-statement/, but you are welcome to use other sources of guidance if you wish.
Please be sure to include citations at the end of your artist statement.
Tips for Submission
Visual art should be scanned, photographed, or filmed; converted into a PDF or jpg/png; and uploaded to Canvas. If you make a film, video, or audio performance, please put the link to this into a document that you upload to Canvas. You might share a link to your Google drive, or to your Youtube video.
All artistic creations must be original.
