1st Edition
Side by Side? Community Art and the Challenge of Co-Creativity
Biography
Maya Haviland is an artist, community facilitator and researcher. She is Lecturer in Museum Anthropology at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University, an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Nulungu Research Institute at the the University of Notre Dame Australia, and a Professional Associate at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. Her research focuses on co-creativity, cultural and organizational development and dynamics of collaboration.
"This is a timely, creative, and exciting discussion of the possibilities for collaboration that are thrown up when anthropology and various contemporary art practices collide in cross-cultural contexts. Haviland's definition of 'art-based collaborative anthropology' should serve as a paradigm for much of the new kinds of work emerging in this field. It is also a work of real passion and engagement that presents a compelling argument for considering the essential co-creativity of anthropology, and the role that both anthropology and art-practices can play in documenting cultures. As such it is essential reading for anyone interested in working cross-culturally."
Christopher Wright, Goldsmiths, UK
