Buildings Archaeology Without Recording

Authors

  • James Dixon University of Bristol

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.32422

Keywords:

art-archaeology, workshop, socially-engaged, politics, site-specificity

Abstract

This short paper outlines the development and operation of a workshop series called Buildings Archaeology Without Recording. The workshops are an experiment in an artistically-inspired site-specific archaeology, which has proven successful in public and local-political engagements with archaeological themes.

Author Biography

  • James Dixon, University of Bristol

    James Dixon is a Research Associate at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol.

References

Bishop, C. 2004. “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics.” October 110: 51–79. https://doi.org/10.1162/0162287042379810

Bourriaud, N. 2002. Relational Aesthetics. Dijon: Les Presses du reel. Translated by S. Pleasance and F. Woods, with M. Copeland.

Harrison, R. and J. Schofield. 2010. After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Published

2018-02-19

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2017): Forum: Beyond Art/Archaeology

Section

Creative Archaeologies Forum

License

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How to Cite

Dixon, J. (2018). Buildings Archaeology Without Recording. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 4(2), 213-220. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.32422