Making Matrice
Intersubjectivity in Ethnography and Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6013286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juliann Emmons Allison (0000-0003-1173-351X, University of California, Riverside), Susan Ossman |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Collaborative anthropologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1943-2550 • E-ISSN: 2152-4009 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cla.2014.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2040764357 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
Through collaborative research design and creative process, artists, activists, and researchers often seek to give voice to underrepresented communities, to gain a better mutual understanding of common experiences or to call attention to issues of public interest.Artists and ethnographers work together to probe topics of common concern or to devise projects that bring people together to stage events or develop community artworks. 1Fewer collaborative projects involving the arts focus on more intimate topics and situations; and those that do rarely have the production of art as their primary goal. 2 In this article we develop an intersubjective narrative (McCleary and Viotti 2009) about one such project that resulted in the making of Matrice, an installation composed of latex, burlap, and oil paint on canvas panels.In addition to the intersubjectivity of written word and audience, the Matrice narrative itself embodies dual related intersubjectivities (Mc-Cleary and Viotti 2009; Stolorow 2013)-a reconstructed conversation between the authors as well as the physical interaction between Susan as artist and the presence of Juliann in the form of a plaster belly cast.Juliann's exploration of her experience of maternity motivated Susan's artwork, itself informed by her skills as an ethnographer as well as an artist.The contours of our collaboration derive from two traditional mises en scène: that of fi gure drawing and portrait painting, which involves an artist and a model, and that of the researcher engaged in fi eld
Ethnography · Intersubjectivity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Geographies of human-animal interactions
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Visual Field Notes
Bob Marley entre nous deux
What is beautiful is good
The Uses of Complicity in the Changing Mise-en-Scène of Anthropological Fieldwork
The Legacies of Writing Culture and the Near Future of the Ethnographic Form
Three modes of experimentation with art and ethnography
Anthropology and Art Practice
Routes to Interiorities
Techniques of the body∗
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |