Recording the Intangible: Approaches to the ethnographic archive
15th Jun 2022 9:30am-6:30pm
This one-day workshop which will take place in the Economic Botany Collections at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew aims to bring together researchers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to explore alternative theoretical and methodological approaches to working with ethnographic archives. The event will provide unique access to artefacts within the collection.
During the day participants will have the opportunity to respond to a selection of ethnobotanic artefacts as a group, with a discussion focusing on cross-disciplinary methodologies and these might reveal overlooked narratives in museums and archives.
There will be creative sessions led by a group of current practice-based PhD Techne students whose projects use drawing, photography and videography to represent objects in their research. By using a range of different artistic and representative practices for recording and framing objects in the archive with the aim of inspiring innovative new perspectives across disciplinary boundaries.
Participants will also have the chance to visit Kew’s Palm House in the afternoon, to look at and draw from some of the living species that the artefacts in the collection derived from.
09.30 - 10.00 Registration and coffee
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- Discussion with curator Mark Nesbitt
17.00 - 18.30 Drinks at “The Botanist”
Booking
There are a very limited number of spaces for this event and booking will be mandatory. Tickets can be purchased through Eventbrite here.
Just a reminder that Techne can reimburse travel expenses for Techne students travelling to Techne funded events.