This talk is part of the Berlin Anthropology Seminars.

Heike Becker’s presentation looks into art and memory activism, with a focus on South Africa and Namibia: How do we think of (embodied) art as a work of critical anthropology? She explores methodological and epistemological questions relevant to art-based practices of fieldwork and critical anthropology with special attention to the creative use of embodied art as a way to articulate political voice and express solidarity in anthropology, art and activism. Becker argues that art-based research opens new avenues of weaving together knowledges and, most importantly, ways of knowing, and the translation of different knowledges as an ongoing process, with a focus on colonised people’s embodied knowledge. These originate in aspirations for a creative anthropology that emphasises the speculative and the experimental and entails that a critical anthropology carefully listens to others beyond the profession, and how artists and activists conceive the horizon of profoundly anthropological imagination. 

This is a hybrid event. Online participation will be possible under the following link:

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m0ae58f835583310e5c077aa2ae3364f3