An artistic exploration of archaeological theory Andrew Cochrane (Cardiff University) Ian Russell (Trinity College, Dublin) The pieces in this exhibition seek to contest traditional mechanisms for representation and spectatorship by questioning the status that visual images occupy in archaeological discourse. Photomosaics of iconic archaeologists and archaeological objects are constructed through the manufacture of archives and…
fields of production
THE CLEARING: Heidegger and Excavation
text by Matt Edgeworth images by permission of Fotis Ifantidis In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting… Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings that we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves…
FieldWork
Returning from the ‘field’…some thoughts on what constitutes fieldwork. Such a pregnant term for the human sciences; replete with senses of: initiation, untowardness, difficulty, spontaneity, inauguration, maturation, practicum, discipline, validation, accreditation, as well as exoticism, travel, aristocratic pursuit and leisure. A process or ‘fielding’ of experience, ‘fieldwork’ plays an indispensable role in the training of…