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URATING COEVALITY” is a 90 minute conversation between art historian Terry Smith and anthropologist Tarek Elhaik. It begins with a long prologue engaging the intensive dialogue between modernist/avant-arde anthropology and art history (Aby Warburg, ethnographic surrealism, Vanguardia). It then proceeds by outlining the contours of a zone of friction generated by the juxtaposition of two interrelated inquiries: “What is Contemporary art?” and “What is Contemporary Anthropology?”
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erry Smith, FAHA, CIHA, is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh, and Distinguished Visiting Professor, National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
His major research interests are contemporary art of the world, including its institutional and social contexts; the histories of multiple modernities and modernisms; the history and theory of contemporaneity; and the historiography of art history and art criticism. He has special expertise in international contemporary art (practice, theory, institutions, markets), American visual cultures since 1870, and Australia art since settlement, including Aboriginal art.
He is the convener of “Defining Contemporaneity, Imagining Planetarity,” a four-year workshop, conference, exhibition and publication project supported by the Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh, and the Humanities Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 2011-14
CONVERSATION PODCAST