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Papers by Tarek Elhaik

Research paper thumbnail of Ermenautica Elhaik

Research paper thumbnail of Aesthetics and Anthropology New Book

Research paper thumbnail of Anthropological Film Fragments from Early Twentieth-Century Mexico: A Curatorial Problem

Elhaik, Tarek. Society for Cultural Anthropology. Visual and New Media Review, Field sights Seri... more Elhaik, Tarek. Society for Cultural Anthropology. Visual and New Media Review, Field sights Series.

Research paper thumbnail of Curatorial Designs: Act II

Tarek Elhaik & George Marcus. “Curatorial Designs: Act II” in The Anthropologist As Curator, Ed. Roger Sansi, New York: Routledge. , 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Antropología de la imagen: una introducción

Research paper thumbnail of Raul Ruiz , Or Anthropology's Trembling Images.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of Reanimation and Repetition : On Silvia Gruner's Tests.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of Anthropology of the Image (Call for Papers - Eds. Elhaik & Andrade)

Research paper thumbnail of A Bloc of Sensation In Lieu of Geography

"Algiers-Rome-Bahia: A Bloc of Sensation In Lieu of Geography" in Sweet Sixties: Specters and Spi... more "Algiers-Rome-Bahia: A Bloc of Sensation In Lieu of Geography" in Sweet Sixties: Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde; Editors: Georg Schöllhammer & Ruben Arevshatyan (Sternberg Press, 2014), p. 217-228.

Research paper thumbnail of Anthropology & Images

Research paper thumbnail of Borderline Ghosts: From Touch of Evil to Maquilapolis

Research paper thumbnail of What is Contemporary Anthropology?

Building on an ethnography of contemporary art worlds and intellectual life in Mexico City, this ... more Building on an ethnography of contemporary art worlds and intellectual life in Mexico City, this paper re-evaluates the dominant concepts that form the so-called ethnographic turn in contemporary art, including the emblematic concept of ethnography. To the ethnographic turn's largely sensorial, historical, people-oriented, cosmopolitan and postcolonial mode of attention, the paper juxtaposes another form of contemporary anthropological inquiry with alternate conceptual constellations and affective modes of research. The proposed contemporary anthropology affirms joyful pedagogies of the concept, cultivates modes of caring for assemblages, designs collaborative research mise-en-scènes that secede from national, diasporic and cosmopolitan geographies, and welcomes those risky creative acts that harbour untimely and non-organic modes of life. The stakes, the paper argues, are nothing less than the differential futures brewing in the contemporariness of contemporary anthropology and contemporary art.

Research paper thumbnail of Curatorial Designs in the Poetics & Politics of Ethnography Today

En este diálogo, George Marcus y Tarek Elhaik empiezan reexaminando los cambios en la práctica in... more En este diálogo, George Marcus y Tarek Elhaik empiezan reexaminando los cambios en la práctica investigativa y los paradigmas iniciados hace más de veinte años por las deliberaciones de Writing Culture y continúan evaluando el devenir de esos debates en el pensamiento y la práctica antropológica contemporánea. Entre una figura clave del momento de Writing Culture y un antropólogo formado en el período que siguió a esas discusiones se produce un intercambio, una exploración y un refinamiento de afinidades conceptuales. La conversación genera un conjunto de conceptos estratégicos clave del repertorio modernista y cosmopolita, apreciado por ambos antropólogos (montaje, diseño, instalación), que influye en la figura emblemática del trabajo de campo. El llamado de Marcus a principios de los 90 por una etnografía como antídoto al realismo desesperanzador de películas y textos etnográficos y de los recientes "para-sitios" de performances en el Centro de Etnografía de la Universidad de California en Irvine se combina con la propuesta de Elhaik de la práctica curatorial como procedimiento, método y modo de producción teórica que abra la posibilidad para idear y componer un "libro-instalación". La conversación propone tales figuras emergentes y nuevos experimentos como modos alternativos de mediación de la etnografía en proceso y, quizás, como sustitutos del trabajo de campo en sí mismo.

Research paper thumbnail of Solitude & Fragments: Introducing the Video Work of Mounir Fatmi

BOOK REVIEWS by Tarek Elhaik

Research paper thumbnail of François Cusset. French Theory: How Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault & Co Transformed the Intellectual  Life of the United States. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 388 pp.

Collaborative Writing by Tarek Elhaik

Research paper thumbnail of TRICONTINENTAL DRIFTS

Tarek Elhaik & Dominic Willsdon. "Tricontinental Drifts" in Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geograp... more Tarek Elhaik & Dominic Willsdon. "Tricontinental Drifts" in Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art. Apsara DiQuinzio ed. Berkeley: University of California Press (2012): 193-199.

Books by Tarek Elhaik

Research paper thumbnail of The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film & Media Arts

A series of cutting-edge scholarly research monographs covering core aspects of film studies. The... more A series of cutting-edge scholarly research monographs covering core aspects of film studies. The series' internationally respected authors contribute analytical and often controversial volumes, offering a critical intervention into their subject.

Research paper thumbnail of Ermenautica Elhaik

Research paper thumbnail of Aesthetics and Anthropology New Book

Research paper thumbnail of Anthropological Film Fragments from Early Twentieth-Century Mexico: A Curatorial Problem

Elhaik, Tarek. Society for Cultural Anthropology. Visual and New Media Review, Field sights Seri... more Elhaik, Tarek. Society for Cultural Anthropology. Visual and New Media Review, Field sights Series.

Research paper thumbnail of Curatorial Designs: Act II

Tarek Elhaik & George Marcus. “Curatorial Designs: Act II” in The Anthropologist As Curator, Ed. Roger Sansi, New York: Routledge. , 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Antropología de la imagen: una introducción

Research paper thumbnail of Raul Ruiz , Or Anthropology's Trembling Images.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of Reanimation and Repetition : On Silvia Gruner's Tests.pdf

Research paper thumbnail of Anthropology of the Image (Call for Papers - Eds. Elhaik & Andrade)

Research paper thumbnail of A Bloc of Sensation In Lieu of Geography

"Algiers-Rome-Bahia: A Bloc of Sensation In Lieu of Geography" in Sweet Sixties: Specters and Spi... more "Algiers-Rome-Bahia: A Bloc of Sensation In Lieu of Geography" in Sweet Sixties: Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde; Editors: Georg Schöllhammer & Ruben Arevshatyan (Sternberg Press, 2014), p. 217-228.

Research paper thumbnail of Anthropology & Images

Research paper thumbnail of Borderline Ghosts: From Touch of Evil to Maquilapolis

Research paper thumbnail of What is Contemporary Anthropology?

Building on an ethnography of contemporary art worlds and intellectual life in Mexico City, this ... more Building on an ethnography of contemporary art worlds and intellectual life in Mexico City, this paper re-evaluates the dominant concepts that form the so-called ethnographic turn in contemporary art, including the emblematic concept of ethnography. To the ethnographic turn's largely sensorial, historical, people-oriented, cosmopolitan and postcolonial mode of attention, the paper juxtaposes another form of contemporary anthropological inquiry with alternate conceptual constellations and affective modes of research. The proposed contemporary anthropology affirms joyful pedagogies of the concept, cultivates modes of caring for assemblages, designs collaborative research mise-en-scènes that secede from national, diasporic and cosmopolitan geographies, and welcomes those risky creative acts that harbour untimely and non-organic modes of life. The stakes, the paper argues, are nothing less than the differential futures brewing in the contemporariness of contemporary anthropology and contemporary art.

Research paper thumbnail of Curatorial Designs in the Poetics & Politics of Ethnography Today

En este diálogo, George Marcus y Tarek Elhaik empiezan reexaminando los cambios en la práctica in... more En este diálogo, George Marcus y Tarek Elhaik empiezan reexaminando los cambios en la práctica investigativa y los paradigmas iniciados hace más de veinte años por las deliberaciones de Writing Culture y continúan evaluando el devenir de esos debates en el pensamiento y la práctica antropológica contemporánea. Entre una figura clave del momento de Writing Culture y un antropólogo formado en el período que siguió a esas discusiones se produce un intercambio, una exploración y un refinamiento de afinidades conceptuales. La conversación genera un conjunto de conceptos estratégicos clave del repertorio modernista y cosmopolita, apreciado por ambos antropólogos (montaje, diseño, instalación), que influye en la figura emblemática del trabajo de campo. El llamado de Marcus a principios de los 90 por una etnografía como antídoto al realismo desesperanzador de películas y textos etnográficos y de los recientes "para-sitios" de performances en el Centro de Etnografía de la Universidad de California en Irvine se combina con la propuesta de Elhaik de la práctica curatorial como procedimiento, método y modo de producción teórica que abra la posibilidad para idear y componer un "libro-instalación". La conversación propone tales figuras emergentes y nuevos experimentos como modos alternativos de mediación de la etnografía en proceso y, quizás, como sustitutos del trabajo de campo en sí mismo.

Research paper thumbnail of Solitude & Fragments: Introducing the Video Work of Mounir Fatmi

Research paper thumbnail of TRICONTINENTAL DRIFTS

Tarek Elhaik & Dominic Willsdon. "Tricontinental Drifts" in Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geograp... more Tarek Elhaik & Dominic Willsdon. "Tricontinental Drifts" in Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art. Apsara DiQuinzio ed. Berkeley: University of California Press (2012): 193-199.

Research paper thumbnail of The Incurable-Image: Curating Post-Mexican Film & Media Arts

A series of cutting-edge scholarly research monographs covering core aspects of film studies. The... more A series of cutting-edge scholarly research monographs covering core aspects of film studies. The series' internationally respected authors contribute analytical and often controversial volumes, offering a critical intervention into their subject.