Irit Rogoff lecture Critical ethnology

Lecture by Professor Irit Rogoff about the practice of fieldwork, as carried out by both artists and researchers.

In his use of common materials and consumer objects such as Nike trainers, Jungen has been seen by some as an ethnologist of contemporary culture. Professor Irit Rogoff has explored in depth the notion of critical ethnology. Using Jungen’s work as a starting point, she will give a lecture about the practice of fieldwork, as carried out by both artists and researchers.

Irit Rogoff is Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she also directs the AHRB project Translating the Image: Cross-cultural Contemporary Arts. Her current research project investigates audience participation in contemporary art spaces, and questions whether audiences are perfomatively able to become part of the very nature of the exhibition.

Rogoff writes extensively on the conjunctions of contemporary art with critical theory with particular reference to issues of colonialism, cultural difference and performativity. She is author of Terra Infirma – Geography’s Visual Culture (2000), editor of The Divided Heritage: Themes and Problems in German Modernism (1991) and co-editor, with Daniel Sherman, of Museum Culture: Histories, Theories, Spectacles (1994). She is a member of the editorial board of Parallax at the University of Leeds and of the Journal of Visual Culture. She has a PhD and an MA from the Courthauld Institute of Art and was awarded a Leverhulme research fellowship in 2001 and a British Academy Award in 2000.