Document Type
Article
Abstract
This paper forms the space for dialogue between a social anthropologist (Grossman) and a visual artist (Kimball), who have been collaborating on installations and films throughout the past decade. Our most recent films, including Into the Field (2005), and Objects of Memory (in progress) are shot on location in Grossman’s fieldwork sites in Romania, and incorporate sequences of stop-motion animation by Kimball. These films explore and question the conventional boundaries between art and anthropology. In this article, we examine the process of filming collaboratively in the field, and discuss the challenges and transformations we each undergo through sharing the literal and theoretical spaces of anthropological fieldwork and artistic production. We also examine the ways in which our individual approaches to cultural investigation both diverge and overlap, deeply influencing our individual work within our own respective disciplines.
Repository Citation
Grossman, Alyssa, and Selena Kimball. "The Memory Archive: Filmic Collaborations in Art and Anthropology." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 9, no. 1, 2009, pp. 1–37. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol9/iss1/7