Jeanne Cannizzo Material Matters
As part of the talks and events programme for Claire Barclay Openwide (7 February–12 April 2009), this seminar investigated the nature of making sculptural objects, their references to other functional objects, and their dysfunctional characteristics.
Listen to Jeanne Cannizzo’s paper from the Dysfunctional Objects Seminar
Circulating some ‘dysfunctional’ archaeological objects from ancient Mexico, Cannizzo suggested ways of thinking about the tensions between the functional and the dysfunctional in material culture.
Jeanne Cannizzo is an anthropologist who teaches about material culture at the University of Edinburgh.
She has also curated exhibitions for the Scottish National Portrait Gallery; her latest show was Our Highland Home: Victoria and Albert in Scotland.
