Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series, Date: 2017/09/29 - 2017/09/29, Location: University of Toronto
Publication date:
2017-09-29
Author:
De Boeck, Filip
Keywords:
visual anthropology, urban anthropology
Abstract:
On the occasion of the opening of "Urban Now, City Life in Congo", an exhibition by anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Sammy Baloji at The Power Plant, a leading Canadian non-collecting art gallery (Toronto, 29 Sept - 31 December 2017), this talk addresses the possibilities of combining ethnography and photography to de-center urban theory and reframe urban anthropology, in an attempt to explore in novel ways what living, and living together, might mean in Central Africa's urban worlds today.