Sria Chatterjee (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
Colonial forms of plantation agriculture and intensive agrochemical use has exhausted the earth. This talk looks at the role of artists in making the messy politics of soil exhaustion visible and in restoring soil systems and agrarian practices. It thinks specifically of the role of ethnography and research-based artistic practice, asking what art and anthropology can do in an agrarian and environmental crisis.
Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, Michaelmas Term 2024
Fridays, 12pm-1.30pm (Weeks 1-8)
In person at the Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre, except for Week 3, which will be in 64 Banbury Road.
