Miscast (installation detail)
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Title
Miscast (installation detail)
Is Part Of
African Studies
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Anthropology
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Centre for Curating the Archive
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Human Biology
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Fine Art
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Description
"In juxtaposing instruments that are still being used (such as the scalpel and the camera) with ones that are not (the Von Luschan skin colour chart and the anthropometric measuring rods), Skotnes set up an opportunity for science to reflect on its past and on the activities and objects of its present, enabling a mode of self-reflexivity that is not a standard part of its day-to-day practices. Through curatorship, she exposed disciplinary practitioners to naturalisations and blind spots within their fields and sensitised them to these previously occluded characteristics" (Liebenberg 2021: 172).
Access Rights
Centre for Curating the Archive
Creator
Pippa Skotnes
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Date Created
1994
Source
Miscast Archive (Centre for Curating the Archive)
Resonances
standardise
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measure
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Pippa Skotnes
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Miscast
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cabinet
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science
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anthropology
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insider
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instruments
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coercion
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information
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observer
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ethnicity
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apartheid
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South African National Gallery
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Jos Thorne
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subjectivity
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objectivity
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medicine chest
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taxonomies
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Type
Photo
Exhibition
