MATERIALITY AND REPRESENTATION Meghan Rose Donnelly STUFF & PICTURES OF STUFF BMS Dr Meghan Rose Donnelly (nuns & stuff) TEACHING TEAM YAMAHA Vicente Yáñez Garrido Ciaran Cowham (buildings & stuff) (tools & stuff) PROGRAM FOR TODAY • What this course is about • Modes of assessment & other office biz • • • Materiality and things: how matter came to matter in anthropology Thing Theory Key readings: things in ethnography • A story from the art world MODES OF ASSESSMENT • • Assessed final essay. 3000 words, worth 80% of your mark Ethnographic gallery. 9 entries and 1 curator's statement. Worth 20% of your mark • Guidelines in Course Outline, available on blackboard • • Bring an object to lecture each week. Prompts in course outline. Represent that object visually in online Padlet gallery. Due by 2pm each Friday./n INSTRUCTIONS At the end of the semester, you will write a short ‘curator's statement,' presenting your gallery with reference to course themes. This statement should be written using accessible language, as if you are presenting your entries to a curious member of the public. The challenge will be to frame a diverse set of objects and images within a single paragraph. Think of yourself as an ethnographer who must make sense of a complex array of loosely related material. What story do they tell? Examples of galleries and statements will be provided on Blackboard. We will collaboratively mark some examples in lecture. Your gallery constitutes 20% of your mark for this course. I will not be marking for visual beauty or technological acumen. Rather, you will be assessed based on your creative and critical engagement with course themes, including the very relationship between materiality and representation. We will discuss this assignment extensively throughout the course. Objects and gallery submissions will be incorporated into lecture and tutorial teaching, so please keep on top of the weekly tasks. Need to write curator's statement in 350 - 500 words Ppt are attached in the question section