Intimate Engagements: Art, Heritage and Experience at the 'Place-Ballet'
Intimate Engagements: Art, Heritage and Experience at the 'Place-Ballet'
This essay will examine the cross-overs that can increasingly be seen between archaeological research and practice, and contemporary art: artistic installation and intervention becomes archaeological, if anything other than the most literal and conservative of definitions is used; archaeological practice is performance, and like much art, the process matters more than the result - the journey more than the destination; and finally art can be used to interpret historic places and events, in some cases more effectively than conventional heritage facilities, and archaeological evidence. Here I will use a range of examples to examine how artists are archaeologists, and vice versa.
contemporary art, contemporary archaeology, heritage, conflict
105-114
Schofield, John
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2007
Schofield, John
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Schofield, John
(2007)
Intimate Engagements: Art, Heritage and Experience at the 'Place-Ballet'.
International Journal of the Arts in Society, 1 (5), .
Abstract
This essay will examine the cross-overs that can increasingly be seen between archaeological research and practice, and contemporary art: artistic installation and intervention becomes archaeological, if anything other than the most literal and conservative of definitions is used; archaeological practice is performance, and like much art, the process matters more than the result - the journey more than the destination; and finally art can be used to interpret historic places and events, in some cases more effectively than conventional heritage facilities, and archaeological evidence. Here I will use a range of examples to examine how artists are archaeologists, and vice versa.
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Published date: 2007
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contemporary art, contemporary archaeology, heritage, conflict
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/46081
ISSN: 1833-1866
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