Balma-Tivola, Cristina

“IT'S NOT A GRANITE PLATE!”. MIGRANT THEATRE REACTIONS TO HEGEMONIC DISCOURSES ABOUT CULTURAL IDENTITY IN ITALY.

Contemporary identities are characterised by porosity and fluidity – at the crossroads of being historical realities vs imagination's inventions, permanent inherited status vs temporary intentional...

BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND WONDER. BEHIND THE SCENES OF BARCELONA'S MUSEUM OF WORLD CULTURES EXHIBITION

Barcelona's Museum of World Cultures opened in February 2015 displaying 529 artefacts mainly coming from a private collection (that of Folch Foundation) completed with objects...

RELATIONAL AESTHETICS, CONTEMPORARY ART AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICES.

The encounter between arts and anthropology seems particularly fruitful for both when entailing the exchange of practices (Schneider, Gell): in fact, theories and methodologies informing...

The Psychiatric Patient Work as a Contact Zone. Some Anthropological Reflections on the Art Brut Collections in Turin

Our paper takes into account the Art Brut / Irregular Art artifacts collections, made in Turin since late late 19th to nowadays, now held in...

Transits vs. Frontiers: Art Practices on the Borders.

Among the themes of anthropological interest that in the "return of the real" (Foster) are addressed by contemporary art, there is that of migration, articulated...

When the Borders Fall. Artworks about Migrations under the Lens of Anthropology.

The encounter between art and anthropology is recently producing a growing amount of reflections that investigate the convergence in contents, and hence potential mutual inspirations...