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Arnd Schneider is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo where he studies contemporary art and anthropology, migration and film. Recent publications edited by Schneider, together with Christopher Wright, are Anthropology and Art Practice (Bloomsbury, 2013), Between Art and Anthropology (Berg, 2010), Contemporary Art and Anthropology (Berg, 2006). Other publications include Appropriation as Practice: Art and Identity in Argentina (Palgrave, 2006) and Futures Lost (Peter Lang, 2000). Experimental Film and Anthropology (co-edited with Caterina Pasqualino) will be published by Bloomsbury in 2014. He was a co-organizer of the 2003 international conference, Fieldworks: Dialogues between Art and Anthropology at Tate Modern, London.

Schneider states, “With the ‘ethnographic turn’ in the arts and the ‘writing culture’ critique in anthropology over the last few decades, arguably a climate of convergence between certain art and anthropology practices has been created.” This lecture, also moderated by Therese Veier from Kunstakademiet, KHiO, will critically appraise common areas of practice and theory and explore areas of future dialogue beteen the two fields in light of the new book, Anthropology and Art Practice.

Program includes:
16/9 Maja Hammarén, 23/9 Sabrina van der Ley, 30/9 Steffen Håndlykken & Stian Eide Kluge, 7/10 Bera Nordal, 14/10 Mike Sperlinger, 21/10 Martinka Bobrikova & Oscar De Carmen, 28/10 Ingrid Hjertaker, 4/11 Adrian Paci, 11/11 Guy Mannes-Abbott, 25/11 Jon Rafman, 2/12 Simon O`Sullivan

Please join us at Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsvein 17, every Monday at 19.00. The program is free and runs in English. Open Forum is a student initiative conceived in 1999 and is supported by the Academy of Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts.