Trouble With Art

Roger Sansi is a professor of anthropology at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He was founding co-convenor (with Jonas Tinius) of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).Jonas Tinius is a scientific coordinator and postdoctoral researcher in cultural anthropology on the ERC project Minor Universality. Narrative World Productions After Western Universalism at Saarland University. He was founding co-convenor (with Roger Sansi) of the Anthropology and the Arts Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

• Introduction: The Trouble with Art in AnthropologyRoger Sansi and Jonas TiniusPart I: Philistinism 1 The Philistine Trap: A Para-Ethnography of the Trouble with an Art Centre in BarcelonaRoger Sansi2 "What Has Theatre Ever Done for Us?": Traditions of Anti-theatricalityJonas Tinius3 Both Sides Now: Ambiguity in Art and AnthropologyEleana YalouriPart II: The Contemporary 4 “We’re Saving a Way of Life”: Indigenous Australian Acrylic Painting and its Troubles with the Categories of Art and ValueFred Myers5 Longing for the Contemporary of ArtThomas Fillitz6 When Multiplicity is not Enough: Questioning Global Art and an Approach to Other Genealogies and Co-designGiuliana BoreaPart III: Assemblages7 Co-ethnographers in the Storm: Investigating Post-socialist Decline with Contemporary ArtistsFrancisco Martínez8 An Enduring Interval: The Artwork as a Re-assemblingKiven Strohm9 Parasitic Projects and the Politics of Research-CreationJennifer Clarke10 Texture of Nothing Marina Peterson and Jesse Weaver Shipley