Tim Ingold talk. 10 July 2017 at Yorkshire Dance, Leeds. As part of Mesh dance research by Vanessa Grasse. 

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Dance artist Vanessa Grasse is working on a site-responsive and participatory choreography that travels through streets, indoor and outdoor public spaces. In response to our current divisive political climate she is exploring interdependence, collaboration and self-organisation through a choreographic research that aims to create a ritual of togetherness in different public spaces. She has invited experts from different disciplines to contribute to the research, including social anthropologist Tim Ingold and science writer Philip Ball.

Find out more about Mesh project and other opportunities to get involved via free workshops in Leeds and Wakefield throughout July and final public sharings on 21st and 22nd July https://vanessagrasse.wordpress.com/mesh/

Tim Ingold is Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013) and The Life of Lines (2015). https://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/people/profiles/tim.ingold

Tim Ingold_On not knowing and paying attention: How to live in a world of uncertainty(Mesh 2017)

Research is the pursuit of truth, through practices of curiosity and care. Truth does not mean fact rather than fantasy, but the unison of experience and imagination in a world to which we are alive and that is alive to us. Amidst panic that we have entered a ‘post-truth’ era, however, truth itself risks being devalued even by those who spring to its defence. It is reduced to an objectification that only further exacerbates our sense of separation from the things that concern us. In this climate, the meaning of research has been corrupted beyond recognition. It has become an industry of knowledge production, dedicated not to truth but to novelty and impact. How can art restore research to its proper vocation?

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Professor Tim Ingold is the Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. His latest research and teaching is around the connections between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture (the '4 As'), conceived as ways of exploring the relations between human beings and the environments they inhabit. Taking a radically different approach from the conventional anthropologies and archaeologies 'of' art and of architecture, which treat artworks and buildings as though they were merely objects of analysis, he is looking at ways of bringing together the 4 As on the level of practice, as mutually enhancing ways of engaging with our surroundings.

Tim Ingold_On not knowing and paying attention: How to live in a world of uncertainty(Mesh 2017)

Vanessa Grasse

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