Location: Du Mois Gallery 4921 Freret New Orleans, LA 70115
Opening Party: Nov. 19th, 2010; 7-10 PM
http://www.ethnographicterminalia.org

Ethnographic Terminalia is an exhibition of over 20 local, national and international artists who work at the intersection of art and anthropology. From November 11 - December 3, 2010, Ethnographic Terminalia will be on exhibit at the Du Mois Gallery in Uptown New Orleans in the Freret commercial corridor, New Orleans. The exhibition is scheduled to coincide and is supported by the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Ethnographic Terminalia brings anthropologists and artists together into the gallery space to investigate the borders of these disciplines and alternative modes of engagement. This is an initiative to bring contemporary art practices in closer proximity to forms of anthropological inquiry; Ethnographic Terminalia is primarily concerned with creating opportunities for the exhibition of non-traditional projects in anthropology. The terminus is the end, the boundary, and the border; of course the terminus is also a beginning as well as its own place, its own site of experience and encounter.

The principal curator of Ethnographic Terminalia 2010: New Orleans Craig Campbell comments that, “each installation project in Ethnographic Terminalia offers an alternative to considering what lies both beyond and within imagined and constructed boundaries of the skilled practices of artists and ethnographers.”

Last year eleven artists made up Ethnographic Terminalia 2009: Philadelphia which was installed at Crane Arts and the Icebox Project Space. This year we have selected over twenty artists to make up Ethnographic Terminalia: New Orleans 2010 including Susan Hiller, Fiamma Montezemolo, Anders Weberg & Robert Willim, Ahmad Hosni, Anthony Callaway, Candy Chang, Dada Docot, Don and Patricia Fels, Dona Schwarz, Ian Kirkpatrick, Jan Lemitz, Jenn Karson, Juan Orrantia, Kate Hennessy, Lorrie Fredette, Nicky Levell, Roderick Coover, Travis Shaffer, Simon Rattigan, Stephanie Spray, Stephanie Keats, Tom Miller, Trish Scott, Trudi Lynn Smith.

Further to the main exhibition at Du Mois Gallery, a number of other sites around New Orleans will host works sponsored by Ethnographic Terminalia.

• Barrister’s Gallery presents Ryan Burns’ Profane Relics: An ossuary of the Congo mineral wars and Lina Dib’s Recantoreum.
• Roundtable discussion at the American Anthropology Association Meetings: Ethnographic termini: moving and agitating within the borderlands of contemporary art and ethnography. This panel will be held at the AAA conference on Saturday, November 20 from 10:00am to 12:00pm.
• Sponsorship of Art Spill: Disaster, Art, Activism, and Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Art Spill consists of an exhibition, which will run from November 13-20 in the St. Claude Arts District; an AAA-sponsored, offsite panel consisting of scholars and artists whose work is relevant to social and ecological issues in the Gulf Coast region, to be held at 6pm on November 20; and a juried art show and NOLA-style party after the panel on November 20, the proceeds of which will be donated to the non-profit watchdog groups Defenders of the Coast and NOLA Emergency Response. Art Spill is also working in collaboration with Multispecies Salon 3: SWARM, whose events include activities in the St. Claude Arts District from November 13-20 and an AAA panel from 1-5:30pm on November 20. For a complete list of Art Spill and SWARM activities, visit www.ethnographicterminalia.org and http://www.wix.com/multispecies/multispecies

Curatorial Collective:

Craig Campbell, University of Texas at Austin (Austin, USA)

Fiona McDonald, University College London (London, England)

Maria Brodine, Colombia University (New York, USA)

Kate Hennessy, School of Interactive Arts + Technology (SIAT), SFU (Vancouver, Canada)

Trudi Lynn Smith, York University (Toronto, Canada)

Stephanie Takaragawa, Chapman University (Orange, USA)

Supported by: The American Anthropology Association, The Society for Visual Anthropology,

The Center for Cultural Studies (University of Texas at Austin), Stella Artois, The Du Mois Gallery

Print Materials: A program is available upon arrival at Du Mois Gallery, and from our

website: www.ethnographicterminalia.org

Images: For images of specific projects please see www.ethnographicterminalia.org and for copyright information please contact Craig Campbell: craig.campbell@mail.utexas.edu

Online: www.ethnographicterminalia.org

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Location address: Du Mois Gallery 4921 Freret New Orleans, LA 70115

Opening hours to public: Thursday to Saturday 11am-7pm

Cost: Entry is free

For further information please contact:

Craig Campbell, PhD [Assistant Professor, Anthropology]

Folklore and Public Culture-Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies

Department of Anthropology, C3200

University of Texas, Austin

1 University Station

Austin, Texas 78712-0303

Phone: 512.232.4342