Field/Works II at EASA 2024

The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) encouraed members to participate online and digitally to the conference this year. As part of the online activities, the convenors of EASA Barcelona 2024 were delighted to announce a call for artworks for the online exhibition project, »Field/Works II: Generating Ecologies of Trust«, curated by ANTART members Maxime Le Calvé and Jen Clarke.

Whereas Field/Works I (EASA Lisbon, 2020) centered around »kaleidoscopic« practices of fieldwork, the theme of Field/Works II is inspired by Isabelle Stengers & Didier Debaise’s call to rebel against the »suspicion-based« epistemology of modern sciences, and fight back with what Félix Guattari called the »polyphonic arts«, building trust-generative ›dispositifs‹. We now arguably work and live in an era »after progress« and attempts of legitimising a one-world ontology have failed (at least in our discipline). How can we (re)generate trust to make space for healing, living and dying practices that accommodates many worlds and modes of existence — working with ideas such as ›earthly beings‹ (de la Cadena) the ›interdependance‹ (Sharma), or ›multispecies justice‹ (Haraway)? How can practices that address both artistic and anthropological concerns partake in and contribute to ›ecologies of trust‹? How might such practices challenge or transform the legacies of modernist ethics, of comparing »all things being equal« and the ensuing general »thinning« of reality? What are the implications for anthropological knowledge that emphasise interdependance and its specific forms of co-existence?

More Information: https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2024/fieldworks